Authorities have been working hard at investigating this week’s hack. Cryptopia, a cryptocurrency exchange in New Zealand were struck by an attack costing them around R33 Million. Despite the exchange cooperating with the authorities, all possibilities including Cryptopia’s role in this situation are under consideration. The Police are Hot on the Trail On January 16th, […]
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Project Khokha was a large test by the South African Reserve Bank for distributed ledger technology, involving 7 banks. In light of this, SARB states the results were good, and Project Khokha was a great success. But is it time for banking institutions to use blockchain technology? A Great Result In June, the South African […]
South Africa Cracks Down on Crypto Assets
Jan 21, 2019
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In the first quarter of 2019, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will be releasing a policy paper on how cryptocurrency service providers may be required to register their business with the government. While this isn’t an outright crypto ban (at least), these strict regulations for crypto assets could change how cryptocurrency works in South […]
Just 14 days into 2019 and we have already experienced a crypto scam involving a hacked twitter account. On January 14th, the national cricket organisation of South Africa fell victim to hackers promoting a fraudulent Bitcoin (BTC) lottery. Ball Tampering Cricket South Africa (CSA) tweeted their alleged participation to over 1 million followers early in […]
Over the last few years, the cryptocurrency markets have been a rollercoaster of emotion. The hype that surrounded the 2017 bitcoin bubble was quickly followed by the ‘crypto winter of 2018’ Will 2019 be the year for global cryptocurrency adoption? Why Cryptocurrency Adoption is Important While it’s true that both blockchain technology and the Bitcoin cryptocurrency […]
With cryptocurrency in Africa gaining a vast amount of traction over the past few years, it comes as no surprise that big players want to jump on board. As the year progressed since bitcoin’s bubble in 2017, adoption has been growing at a fast level. Consequently, a counter-narrative has emerged: Central Banks have finally acknowledged the […]
The South African Reserve Service has been considering altering their tax return forms in order to include cryptocurrencies. SARS and the South African government recently made a regulatory working group for cryptocurrency assets in order to investigate the true potential of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. An Official Response to Cryptocurrencies This new regulatory working group […]
What is the Mimblewimble protocol?
Jan 9, 2019
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January 3rd 2019 marks the launch of a new cryptocurrency called Beam. Beam is one of two highly sought-after privacy coins that implements the “Mimblewimble” payment protocol. Mimblewimble is a new and innovative way to make confidential and virtually untraceable transactions. Mimblewimble Protocol The Mimblewimble protocol was first announced in the summer of 2016 by […]
An Ethereum hard fork is on the way, and it has stirred up some concern in the crypto space. Constantinople is Ethereums next big system-wide update and will be coming soon to a node near you. Finalized on August 31, 2018, Constantinople will include 5 separate Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs). Once this update goes live, the […]
The iCE3X Android App is Now Live!
Jan 4, 2019
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We are very excited to announce that we now have an Android App for the iCE3X platform. We have many people ask us about an Android App and it is now available to download! The iCE3X Android App has Full Exchange Functionality! The app has all the functionality of the exchange website so that you can […]