Bitcoin nudging $108,000. Another milestone. But let's be real, another number flashed across a screen doesn't automatically translate to real-world change. We've seen the charts, the predictions of $150K, even $229K by year's end. Yet what does this actually translate to for the single mother in Venezuela who can’t afford...
Forget the Lambo dreams. To see real change, on the ground, in South Africa. Everyone’s abuzz about the altcoin market cap surpassing $815 billion, trying to break the $900 billion barrier. Fine for investors, but what about Amahle down the block, who can’t provide for her children? What about the...
My Name is Amahle, and I’m writing to you from Johannesburg. For most of us, finance isn’t just about choosing the next meme stock. It’s not just about survival, but realizing that future — ensuring our children enjoy greater quality of life, prosperity and opportunity than we ourselves enjoyed. That's...
Ethereum, which is now hovering around the $2500 level, is not simply another cryptocurrency riding the wave of a new crypto bull market. It’s a technology with the potential to rewrite the rules for how African communities access finance, build businesses, and govern themselves. The Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) upgrade?...
The Altcoin Season Index bullheadlily remains at 22. Bitcoin season, they call it. But I call it something else: a potential bottleneck for progress, especially in places like Africa where carefully chosen altcoins could be game-changers. We’re talking about real-world impact, not even speculative additional gains. Have we become so...
The headlines are blaring as crypto ETF inflows cross the half billion dollar mark in a single day. Everyone is clamoring for the new Bitcoin ETF. Fidelity and BlackRock are raking it in. AUM is ballooning. But hold on a moment—we should look beyond just the hard dollar amounts. Let’s...
The media headlines shriek about Ethereum hitting new price milestones. But who is really celebrating? Crypto believers in Silicon Valley are popping champagne bottles. At the same time, Amahle, a new single mom in Soweto, struggles to make remittances survive to her family back in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Is this surge...
So, as CoinGecko tells us, Bitget must be the hot spot for altcoin liquidity. Great. Another exchange claiming to be the best. Let's cut through the hype. While Binance might be king of Bitcoin, Bitget's waving its altcoin flag, particularly in that sweet spot of 0.3-0.5% price deviation. In theory,...
Is BAY Miner's "AI-powered" cloud mining platform a beacon of financial empowerment for Africa, or a wolf in sheep's clothing preying on vulnerable users? The answer, like everything else, is probably nuanced — and frighteningly so.AI Mining: Digital Colonialism 2.0?Let’s be blunt: the rhetoric surrounding cryptocurrency often sounds like a...
Ethereum's got problems, right? Sky-high gas fees, glacial speeds, governance infighting that would put your family Thanksgiving to shame. Bitcoin maximalists are all but having a victory party, and Solana’s busy bragging on its super-duper quick transactions. What if this supposed “identity crisis” is, in fact, Ethereum’s biggest advantage –...
