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Moneyweb Crypto explores all things crypto and blockchain: the good, the bad and the impossible. If you're looking to invest in cryptocurrencies, or understand this evolving universe, you're in the right place.
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Aug 19, 2025 • 26min
How to talk to a family member caught up in an online scam
If they’ve seen a video of Elon Musk or Cyril Ramaphosa or any other celebrity
telling them how to turn R4 500 into R20 000 in a month, it’s a scam says Gerhard van Deventer, head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Aug 12, 2025 • 19min
Look out JSE, here come tokenised stocks
Both VALR and Luno have launched tokenised stocks in SA, allowing South Africans to purchase exposure to US equities like Tesla and Nvidia without having to use their foreign allowance. It’s part of an accelerating trend where cryptocurrencies are gatecrashing the traditional finance space, explains VALR chief operating officer Gianluca Sacci. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Aug 5, 2025 • 24min
Altcoins are back in vogue
Best-selling author and bitcoin miner Giannis Andreou says it’s not just bitcoin that’s getting attention from serious investors. Ethereum, written off by some as dead just a year ago, is back with a bang, as are some of the minnows of the crypto world. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jul 29, 2025 • 45min
Masie’s message to Discovery and Naspers: Get with the bitcoin programme
JSE-listed companies should be adopting bitcoin strategic reserves if they pause for a minute and take a serious look at the state of SA and the prospects for the rand, says tech entrepreneur Stafford Masie. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jul 22, 2025 • 23min
Bitcoin miners are solving Africa’s huge power deficit
Kenya-based Gridless Compute is a bitcoin miner with six sites in four countries. Now it's going into power generation, bringing electricity to the most stranded parts of Africa. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jul 15, 2025 • 20min
Another global crypto giant gatecrashes the SA market
Bitget, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, is making a noisy entrance into the SA market with products such as credit cards linked to your crypto wallet and tokensied shares, explains head of growth for Africa, Callan Richardson. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jul 8, 2025 • 25min
Why some SMEs are loading bitcoin onto their balance sheets
Stablecoins too – and not as a sign of risk tolerance, but to mitigate the risks of fiat debasement, as 80eight macro strategist Shiven Moodley explains. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jul 1, 2025 • 21min
Is this the future of investing?
Digital exchanges like Mesh.trade have cut trading costs to 0.2% while making it possible to buy fractions of an asset. All transactions are logged on the blockchain. Stock exchanges like the JSE are getting a run for their money, says Mesh.trade MD Connie Bloem. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jun 24, 2025 • 22min
How regulation opened the crypto arbitrage floodgates
Ben Jordaan of crypto arbitrage company Shiftly notes how regulation has been a blessing and a curse for crypto arbitrage, introducing thousands of new participants while also squeezing the profits as demand increases. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
Jun 17, 2025 • 21min
Banks are about to enter the crypto space
Frank Leonette, CEO of AfriDAX, delves into the imminent arrival of banks into the crypto space in SA, a surprising and ironic turnaround given their prior hostility to this new asset class. There are risks aplenty for customers, and not everyone will welcome the banks. Moneyweb Crypto news articles
