Cointelegraph
Analysis
Bitcoin and blockchain tech are ripe for mainstream adoption in Africa, where the population is well positioned to embrace the innovative technologies.
News
The governor of Kenya’s central bank announced it had issued a circular to all banks, cautioning against crypto dealings.
Blockchain technology is giving Africa the opportunity to stand on its own without depending on the generosity of Westerners.
The Kenyan police have arrested three peer-to-peer Bitcoin brokers alleged for trading stolen money through the local trading platform LocalBitcoins.
Adoption
Bitcoin could solve a lot of Africa’s problems, but its uptake has been slow.
Blockchain
IOTA has forged a partnership with REFUNITE, the world's largest missing persons database to use the former's Blockchain to reunite families during and after co...
Praveen Kumar, Chairman and CEO of Belfrics Global SDH, has announced that his outfit will be launching Bitcoin exchanges across Africa in the coming months.
Bitcoin growth continues in Africa’s big cryptocurrency players, but there are also baby steps in Tanzania.
Visa is in hot competition to serve the unbanked as Blockchain startups such as BitPesa make ever-increasing inroads.
Kenya’s banks are aiming to compete with M-Pesa mobile money transfer with their own product, PesaLink. Their plan is to undercut M-Pesa on fees, but they will ...
The Kenyan government is utilizing blockchain to develop an immutable and transparent education management system, issuing academic certificates on a cloud-base...
In a backward move, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has outlawed Bitcoin directing and cautioning Kenyans to reject it.
Kenya Ministry of Communications and Information Technology minister Joe Mucheru is unable to sell his shares in BitPesa after the federal government imposed ti...
As it is just a matter of time for the Bitcoin bubble to burst in India so it is a little sooner for the multiplier effect of the burst to spill over to Africa....
It has been revealed recently that Safaricom, a leading Kenyan mobile network operator, tried to shut down a promising Bitcoin startup. Are monopolists that muc...
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Being a Kenyan, who uses both the mobile money service and bitcoin, it made me think about how the two technologies compare.
Safaricom customers were greeted with the news that they should prepare themselves for an M-Pesa service shutdown over the coming weekend, on April 18 and 19.
Michael Bumann has been in Nairobi, Kenya for several months updating himself on the tech scene there.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded Ghana based blockchain startup Bitsoko in a startup competition called Gran Challenges Explorations, which focused on...