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South African Women Lose Money to Crypto Scammer Who Convinced Them That Botswana Pula Coins Are Bitcoins
1.5.2021
A group of South African investors recently confessed to losing money to a brazen scammer after he convinced them to buy and hold nearly worthless physical coins. The coins, which are denominated in the Bostwana pula currency, were initially sold to a group of South African women back in 2019 when...
The Case Of Mobile Money In Ghana
21.4.2021
Ghana is in the throes of a mobile money boom.
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PK Senyo, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, University of Southampton.
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Mobile money — a technology that enables financial transactions through mobile phones without a bank account — is driving...
Delisting Coinbase, IOTA's Upgrade, Money Printing To Intensify + More News
21.4.2021
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Deutsche Boerse said it would de-list the shares of Coinbase (COIN) from its Xetra trading system and the Frankfurt stock exchange...
Mick Jagger is using NFTs to raise money for indie music venues
15.4.2021
The highest bid is currently $8,988, with 12 people having made an offer for the musical NFT
The Money Roundup: Making Cents of Blockchain Fundraising News
14.4.2021
From crypto trading to defi, the most exciting areas in blockchain fintech development and innovation are attracting serious investments from all industry corners. To introduce more tools and complementary services to the ecosystem, the recipients of these capital allocations are endeavoring...
Terrorists still raise money through crypto, but the impact is limited
9.4.2021
Evidence suggests crypto’s role in terrorism remains relatively minor: “It has not yet become a primary means of terror financing.”
Ripple Partner Mercury FX Accepted Into ‘First Cohort’ of a South African Regulatory Sandbox
4.4.2021
South Africa’s Inter-governmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) recently accepted Mercury FX, a UK-based e-money firm, into the first cohort of its regulatory sandbox. The firm, which harnesses the Ripplenet blockchain, says it wants to demonstrate its technology’s ability “to...
Tesla may have made more money holding Bitcoin than selling cars
17.3.2021
Tesla’s unrealized profit from “hodling” Bitcoin could be the equivalent of upscaling the company’s daily car sales by over 860%
'Cryptocurrency is not legitimate money,' says Nigeria's central bank governor
24.2.2021
Nigeria’s central bank is doubling down on its anti-cryptocurrency stance
Epic Settles Real Lawsuit With Fake Money
22.2.2021
Fortnite players who purchased one of Save The World’s randomized Loot Llamas will receive 1000 V-Bucks, developer Epic announced today. The move comes as part of a preliminary class action settlement regarding loot boxes.Read more
Banks will be required to work with crypto, e-money and CBDCs to survive
21.2.2021
The global monetary landscape will have everyone storing electronic money, cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies in one bank
Public and Private Money Can Coexist in the Digital Age
21.2.2021
Tobias Adrian is the Financial Counsellor and Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli is a Deputy Division Chief in the same Department.
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We value innovation and diversity—including in money. On the same day, we might...
Mobile money platform Pngme raises $3M to expand across Africa
12.2.2021
The fintech firm hopes to expand financial products for the unbanked
This Is What Global Open-Source Money Seems Like
3.1.2021
Some insist bitcoin simply can't be money because it has no basis in the material world. But the argument owes more to semantics than reality
Win a Limited Edition Franck Muller Bitcoin Cash Watch “Free the Money. Free the World.” With Bitcoin.com Exchange
23.12.2020
PRESS RELEASE. The Bitcoin.com Exchange team will be giving away a Franck Muller Bitcoin Cash watch in a margin trading competition this holiday season. Bitcoin.com has announced a new partnership with the luxury watch brand, Franck Muller, and the branded “Free the Money, Free...
Make Money by Investing in a Forward-thinking Company
7.12.2020
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On one hand, 2020 has been an excellent year for Bitcoin, which has just reached its all-time high (ATH) on 30 November. On the other, the global economic climate is growing increasingly uncertain,...
Stobox Offers a Better Way To Make Money in Crypto Than DeFi. Invest Like the Rich
5.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. DeFi is a risky investment. It can deliver huge returns – but also you can waste all your money. Objectively, many DeFi projects are a scam, and if they give dishonest promises or steal your money you have no way to get your money back or find the responsible persons. For this...
Despite strong security token growth, tZERO continues to lose money
30.10.2020
While tZERO’s net revenues have nearly doubled year-over-year, Overstock’s fledgling security token exchange is still far from profitable
Ripple to Invest in Japan’s SBI Subsidiary MoneyTap
29.10.2020
Ripple plans to invest in MoneyTap, the blockchain payments app birthed through a joint venture between the San Francisco-based firm and SBI Holdings
Roll Raises Another $1M to Make Money Social
26.10.2020
Personal token platform Roll is announcing the raise of $1 million from Fabric Ventures, IOSG, William Mougayar and others