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Can Africa Bitcoin Corp buck the bitcoin treasury meltdown? 

Africa Bitcoin Corp plans a London listing to use crypto collateral to fund low-cost SME loans

The bitcoin holy wars

Why decentralised governance makes compromise so elusive

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Whatever happened to the bitcoin miners? 

The industry will soon earn less than a third of its living from bitcoin. Which is great for the miners; less so for the original cryptocurrency

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The weird insolvency of FTX, and its link to South Africa

When a business rescue starts rescuing the rescuers, you know the system isn’t working in favour of the company and its real creditors

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What Africa’s stablecoin boom means for its financial system

Africa leads the world in stablecoin ownership. The question is whether banks and regulators can keep pace with what is already happening

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Gold to breach $7,000? Standard Bank’s expert reckons so …

The ‘View from the Room’ session at Standard Bank’s African Markets Conference pitted the audience’s economic projections against those of experts

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From bitcoin bets to beer – your crypto questions answered

Want to know more about cryptocurrencies? Binance South Africa’s Hannes Wessels is your go-to guy

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The big split: why gold is acting like a reserve asset and bitcoin isn’t

The market clearly isn’t ready to grant bitcoin ‘safe haven’ status just yet, thanks in part to its youth and former volatility

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Gold or bitcoin? The battle for money’s future

It’s hard to say who won the gold-bitcoin standoff between metals evangelist Peter Schiff and Binance head CZ. But the arguments were enlightening

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Bitcoin bubble bursts – so it’s time to buy, says Africa’s first crypto treasury

The Africa Bitcoin Corporation is not deterred by a downturn in the cryptocurrency and scepticism about bitcoin treasury companies

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My terrible investment punt this year: Strategy Inc

A punt on Strategy Inc in 2025 has been a terrible investment decision this year. Just ask Currency’s Tim Cohen

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Bitcoin is stuck in a downward pattern until it breaks higher

The cryptocurrency is trapped in a down trend. It needs to break above a key resistance level for sentiment to shift

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The great bitcoin escape: how billions could have slipped the exchange-control leash

Legal experts say that, for now, transferring crypto outside South Africa is unregulated due to a loophole in the exchange-control framework

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The other blockchain

Ethereum hosts most tokenised assets and is set to surge as Nasdaq seeks to put $63-trillion on blockchain. Its time in the spotlight may have arrived

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Inside Altvest’s mega $210m bitcoin gamble

JSE-listed minnow Altvest has taken a radical left turn, looking to raise $210m and turn itself into a bitcoin treasury play

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When crypto faith breeds financial fiction

MicroStrategy turned crypto into its core business. Now more than 150 firms are copying the play. Welcome to the rise of the bitcoin treasury company

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Crypto’s big shift: value and velocity collide

Bitcoin and stablecoins have gone legit. One stores value, the other moves it. Together, they’re reshaping global finance at breakneck speed

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South Africa’s regulators need to get their crypto skates on

South Africa has dropped the ball on regulating digital assets – which puts it hugely at risk of missing out on the economic potential they can bring

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The Trump trade: gold or bitcoin?

After Trump’s win, bitcoin skyrocketed over $100,000 on crypto optimism, and gold scaled new peaks amid global jitters. Which do you back?

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Crypto fomo

We at Currency have watched the Crypto bus speed past, splashing mud into our eyes and onto our portfolio returns. What to do? Climb aboard or stay out?