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MARIUS REITZ: South Africa can be the continent’s crypto gateway

But it has to get the rules right

How’s the marriage of AI and crypto going?

AI agents now pay each other in fractions of a cent

CHRISTO DE WIT: R50 is more than a token purchase

Tokenised stocks are lowering the barrier to entry for South Africans

Lesetja Kganyago.

DUNCAN McLEOD: Kganyago’s mission creep of cash and crypto assets

The Reserve Bank's measures would be regulatory overreach

Warren Wheatley

Africa Bitcoin board walks out after Wheatley power play

ABC board quits in clash with Wheatley-backed shareholders

CHRISTO DE WIT: Balancing bitcoin’s bigger benefits

Bitcoin: get the balance right

DUNCAN McLEOD: Why Eskom is courting bitcoin miners

Eskom and Nersa court bitcoin miners

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CHRISTO DE WIT: Lessons in clarity for South Africa’s regulators

South Africa's urgent need for parliamentary clarity on crypto regulation

Crypto’s Clarity Act is dead. Long live crypto

Why US regulators, not Congress, revived crypto

CHRISTO DE WIT: Get with the blockchain

Without clear regulatory frameworks, South Africa risks falling behind in the tokenisation race

R903,000 gone in 10 minutes: Small business takes on Standard Bank

R903,000 alleged cyberheist case heads to the high court

Africa Bitcoin Corporation’s Warren Wheatley. Picture: Supplied.

Behind the ructions at Africa’s first Bitcoin treasury firm 

Regulator hits founders with thumping sanctions and debars them for 20-years

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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

Kastelos in the sand: The DA’s Burke dilemma

Inside the party’s Burke bind

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CHRISTO DE WIT: The lawmaking process that wasn’t

Exchange control should be modernised, but not like this

The bitcoin holy wars

Why decentralised governance makes compromise so elusive

CHRISTO DE WIT: Cash is king for crooks

Despite common misconceptions, cash remains the preferred tool for criminals, not cryptocurrency.

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Africa is blockchain’s most mispriced market

Africa is generating record blockchain deal activity, but its share of global funding has almost halved

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The crypto theft that changed everything

A six-month North Korean con drained $285m from Drift in 12 minutes, exposing DeFi’s central myth: that technology can eliminate trust

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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