From increased government and institutional participation to millions of dollars in crypto fundraising, the year in African crypto was far from dull. We walk you through the highlights, month by month. Bear in mind these highlights will definitely influence the crypto outlook in the continent in 2023. January 2022: Binance sponsors AFCON The year started …
If there is one question we’re getting more and more of within our social circles, it is how to get or buy bitcoin in Kenya. This is because the crypto world is reaching new heights of maturity both in usage and popularity. (And price of course!) If it was in the super early days of …
Good morning! Did you do something nice for your dad yesterday? Or did someone do something nice for you yesterday for being a dad? Happy new week! No light in sight… yet Bitcoin was above 40K for a bit last week, but it went back to 30s again. Some attributed the brief recovery to two things: …
We’re back! Nothing much has happened, that is, if you count one of our favourite FinTechs becoming the fifth unicorn in Africa as nothing. 😀 And Nigeria banning Twitter. 🙁 So yeah, a lot has happened. Are we going down further? Things have been pretty much and up and down the crypto charts the past two weeks. …
Not really. But seriously, we are no longer going to keep refreshing the charts on CoinMarketCap until further notice. I mean, why do we even do that when we are HODLing? Anyway, in today’s edition: All is downhill for crypto prices Are we going down further? First of all, as of this morning, the curves seem to be on …
If you think about it, the Bitcoin (BTC) crash we keep calling a crash really isn’t one. Considering the price only started to sustain $40K prices in February. But it seems we are at another slow down for BTC now, playing at $50K. Pundits predict it might drop again before we set off for another rally. We’re here …
If you have been reading our brief every Monday and not buying bitcoin, even kidogo, we don’t know what to tell you. Especially if you were here when it was at $10K when we started this last September. The latest ATH* as we write is currently about $57,500. Let that sink in. At this point, we …
On Friday the 5th of February 2021, we were just chilling having a good day when news emerged that the Central Bank of Nigeria had “banned” crypto. Funny enough, this was just after Davido had mused over starting a crypto exchange on Tuesday. While that was quite some bad news to crypto exchanges and traders, …
This is a follow-up to the introductory Bitcoin post. You now know what bitcoin is and why it was created. So what do you need to get started? First of all, you need a bitcoin wallet address to receive bitcoins, the same way you need an email address to receive an email. And just like …
As you can see, Bitcoin has gone a long way up since we looked at the price last week. We’re waiting for 16K over here to celebrate, but in the meantime, what do you think is causing the rally? Some believe it is the institutional moves that we have reported the last few weeks — …
