Despite the lukewarm response to Sango Coin, the nation’s indigenous digital currency, the Central African Republic (CAR) has laid the groundwork for tokenizing its natural resources. The initiative, unveiled by the Sango project…
Just a year after making bitcoin legal tender, the Central African Republic (CAR) abandoned its plans to revitalize its country. Why? This is an opinion editorial by Jonathan Buck, founder of JB &…
Developer platform TBD announces partnership with Yellow Card to provide global fiat on- and off-ramps for bitcoin and stablecoin payments in Africa. Block’s TBD, a Bitcoin-focused developer platform, has partnered with Yellow Card…
Dakar, the capital of the West African nation of Senegal, now boasts an annual Pan-African Bitcoin conference, over 10 merchants accepting Bitcoin, a local peer-to-peer BTC exchange and a budding Bitcoin community. What’s…
Users from Liberia, Sierra Leone and more can now directly utilize their local currencies to buy and sell bitcoin through Binance P2P. Cryptocurrency platform Binance has announced that its peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace will…
One of the poorest countries – the Central African Republic (CAR) – formed a team of 15 agencies, whose responsibility will be to draft a “comprehensive” cryptocurrency bill. The nation made the headlines…
The South African Government releases new regulations for crypto asset advertisements to protect consumers and ensure fair practices in the crypto market. According to the legal paper prepared by Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB),…
Bitcoin payments app Strike said in a statement Tuesday that it had launched Send Globally, a new feature that lets U.S. users instantly and cheaply send money to Africa. “With exorbitant fees to…
Some 2 million users in Nigeria and Kenya are set to be onboarded to a new cryptocurrency wallet backed by the likes of Coinbase Ventures and Alameda Research. Mara is a digital financial…