Tag: Bitcoin
The biggest crypto scam: OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty
Co-founder of OneCoin, Sebastian Greenwood has finally pled guilty to scamming users of the platform of $4 billion and is facing up to 60...
Jack Dorsey’s Block invests in African bitcoin miner
Jack Dorsey’s Block is among the companies contributing to a funding round for a bitcoin miner in Africa fired by renewable power.
Digital payments firm Block...
Ghana set to catch up with Nigeria, Kenya in crypto adoption...
A report released by blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis, indicated that Ghana has the potential to achieve crypto adoption levels similar to Kenya and Nigeria,...
3 Big Cryptocurrency Misconceptions that Need to be Busted
Over the past couple of months, a lot of people crawled out of the woodwork claiming to know everything there was to know about...
Cryptocurrencies rise back to life
Bitcoin has rallied amid a broad risk-on mood in global markets, trading above US$22 000 for the first time since 8 June and testing the upper...
Ghana listed among top 10 African countries with most Cryptocurrency holders
If you look at the markets currently, you would find that cryptocurrency is undergoing what some analysts are calling the “Crypto Winter” highlighted by...
Central African Republic: first adopter of Bitcoin in Africa to get...
The Central African Republic, which adopted bitcoin as legal tender in April, is poised to roll out its own digital currency as part of a...
Kenyan students arrested for laundering money via Bitcoin
A gang of Kenyan students who have been hacking foreigners’ email credit cards through email phishing, stealing money and laundering it through bitcoin, have been...
Bitcoin tumbles to 18-month low
Bitcoin plunged to the lowest in about 18 months in Asia trading on Monday as the impact of Friday’s shock US inflation data continued to...
Coinbase laying off 1100 employees
Coinbase is the latest crypto firm to take an axe to its workforce, outlining plans to lay off around 1100 people - 18% of...