According to a recent report, Africa’s lack of traditional financial infrastructure makes the region fertile ground for cryptocurrency adoption.
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13,000 South Korean ATMs will soon facilitate fiat withdrawal and international remittance services using Litecoin.
6857More than 200 academics and developers gathered to discuss Ripple’s developer platform and global payment network.
4004The World Economic Forum has appointed the CEO and founder of BitPesa, Elizabeth Rossiello, to serve as one of two co-chairs of the Global Blockchain Council.
5050Crypto exchange Huobi has partnered with a Chinese blockchain company JD Cloud to explore blockchain and cloud computing.
16901Visa is in hot competition to serve the unbanked as Blockchain startups such as BitPesa make ever-increasing inroads.
32068Kenya’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 only serve bank account holders at first.
754Leading African bitcoin startup BitPesa secured a US$2.5 million funding round from leading venture capital firms including Draper VC, Blockchain Capital, BnkToTheFuture, Digital Currency Group and Pantera Capital.
2429MMM Global hurts Bitcoin business in Africa, Bitpesa Bitcoin exchange warns its users on the need to be cautious.
1371Kenya Ministry of Communications and Information Technology minister Joe Mucheru is unable to sell his shares in BitPesa after the federal government imposed tightened regulations on virtual currency.
3231It has been revealed recently that Safaricom, a leading Kenyan mobile network operator, tried to shut down a promising Bitcoin startup. Are monopolists that much afraid of losing out to Bitcoin?
1347African blockchain-related startups will pitch new products at SWIFT African Regional Conference in Mauritius on May 18.
740BitFury announced that it has invested in BitPesa, a universal payment and trading platform for the African continent, through its investment wing, BitFury Capital
780M-Pesa operator Safaricom will not be required to grant access to bitcoin startup BitPesa amid an ongoing legal dispute. What are the consequences?
905What happened this week in crypto innovation? Here's all the news that's fit to print
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