The Bitcoin Scaling Agreement: A Cryptocurrency Regulatory Parable
The Bitcoin Scaling Agreement was as much a story about technology as Titanic was about a ship.
A crash course in the basics...
Financial Product Wrappers: A regulatory home for the wayward BitCoin?
As crucial as BitCoin may be to the growing global financial markets and as much as it may revolutionise concepts relating to payment and...
Cryptocurrency transactions
In South Africa, as with most other countries around the world, there is no guidance and regulation regarding cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The Budget...
The Product Manager’s guide to the Blockchain — Part 1
Over this past year I took a keen interest in understanding cryptocurrencies such as bitcoins and quickly realized that while digital currencies were powerful,...
What are Smart Contracts and How are Enterprises Using Them?
Smart Contracts is an application of the blockchain technology to create an independently verifiable, secure, permanent and fault-tolerant agreement designed for satisfying common contractual...
Deciphering the Taxation of Cryptocurrencies
There are many different cryptocurrencies, the most well-known being Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a convertible virtual currency, in other words, it has an equivalent value...
How to stay within the law and buy Bitcoin in South Africa
The South African Reserve Bank recently issued guidance regarding its position on the purchase and transfer of cryptocurrencies. The SARB does not regulate the exchange...
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency regulation in Africa under discussion at Afro-Asia Fintech Festival
African countries are no strangers to the use of digital solutions for money transfers, nor to the rapid implementation of such technologies. However, approaches...
Bitcoin just surged past $2,000 for the first time
The world’s most popular cryptocurrency is now worth over $2,000 per coin. That’s according to a range of bitcoin exchanges, including Coinbase and Kraken....
SA law firm Bowmans launches its own cryptocurrency – BowMoney
Sandton based pan-African law firm, Bowmans launched its own cryptocurrency – BowMoney – in July. BowMoney, it said, is the cryptocurrency that will underpin...
Interview with Casey Kuhlman of Monax about Smart Contracts
We interview Casey Kuhlman, CEO of Monax and discuss the deployment of smart, legally-binding contracts on the blockchain.
Monax is an application that can...
5 Questions about the Future of Blockchain for Thomson Reuters Technologist Joe Raczynski
The overarching question pertaining to blockchain, no matter what industry you work, is whether or not we trust the technology. For answers, Legal Executive...
