Bitcoin Use Soars in Zimbabwe After Foreign Currencies Ban
Peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange of LocalBitcoins has continued to soar after the Zimbabwe government implemented a ban on foreign currency transactions. Zimbabwe: Bitcoin or Bust As...
Bitcoin News Weekly Digest: BTC Price Talk To Schiff The Bitcoiner
It’s been a sporty old week, from the women’s football world cup finals to the start of the Wimbledon tennis tournament. But who are this week’s winners and losers in...
Bitcoin Price Hits $76,000 on Zimbabwe LocalBitcoins
Bitcoin is trading at an eye-watering 600% premium in Zimbabwe, as the country’s oppressive monetary policy drives local investors towards the decentralized ‘safe...
Ugandan Prince Brings Crypto-Powered Solar Energy to Africa
Have you noticed recently there are less emails from African princes, desperate for help getting fortunes out of their country? Perhaps that is because they are now investing in clean...
High Court of Zimbabwe Lifts Cryptocurrency Ban
The High Court of Zimbabwe has lifted a ban on cryptocurrencies in the Southern African country. This follows a lawsuit that was filed by a local cryptocurrency exchange which argued...
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Sued for Banning Cryptocurrency
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is facing a lawsuit from a cryptocurrency exchange in the African country following the RBZ’s recent order to all registered financial...
South Africa Gets Its First Multi-Currency Crypto ATM
As cryptocurrency interest and trading continues to grow in South Africa, some retailers are hoping to cash in. The country will soon be the second in southern Africa to launch a...
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Bans Cryptocurrency Trading, Financial...
The financial services regulator for the southern African country of Zimbabwe – the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) – has banned all financial services institutions in the...
San Francisco Fed Head: Crypto Is Not A Currency
The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco believes that crypto lacks the core features required to define them as a currency. Late November and most of December last year...
Zimbabwe’s First Bitcoin ATM Becomes Country’s Only...
Zimbabwe now has a Bitcoin ATM that is providing people with another way to buy and sell Bitcoin and Litecoin. The first of its kind in the southern African country, the 2-way ATM was...
Nobel Laureate Economist Claims Bitcoin ‘Ought to be...
As Bitcoin’s price continues to climb past $10,000, one Nobel Laureate Economist says Bitcoin is a bubble, lacking in all social usefulness, and should be outlawed. Nobel-prize...
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe: ‘Bitcoin is Not Legal’
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) director and registrar of banking institutions, Norman Mataruka, recently stated that Bitcoin was illegal and that the regulator would not allow its use...