Good morning! We’re a day late, but there are very good reasons for this. For starters, we are delivering this newsletter in a fresh new way since WordPress launched newsletters this week. We hope you like this simpler format. Secondly, we wrote a long piece about the state of crypto in Kenya. In recent years, […]
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Last Friday, I attended a fireside chat hosted by SafariDAO and Borderless Africa. This post is a product of questions that were asked directly to me during some catching up with Kenyan crypto industry acquaintances (including, do you still write?) and during the fireside chat that followed. The one question that drove a long conversation
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Good afternoon! We’re here to drop it, short and sweet. The numbersBTC: $29,797.93ETH: $1,873.71XRP: $0.7211BNB: $241.63 It’s all systems drop, this week. But nothing major yet. Something about Worldcoin (WLD) below. Keep scrolling. Source: CoinMarketCap Reads How about a walk through Africa FinTech with Wiza Jalakasi and Caleb Maru. Trust me, it’s worth it. I
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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
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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:
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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