Moneyweb Crypto
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 161
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Altvest follows Michael Saylor’s strategy, becoming Africa’s first bitcoin treasury reserve
Altvest changes its name to Africa Bitcoin Corp and plans to raise R3.68bn ($210m) to invest in Bitcoin. The two men behind the project, Altvest CEO Warren Wheatley and tech entrepreneur Stafford Mas…
00:24:46 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
What if South Africa’s access to SWIFT is threatened?
The SA Reserve Bank says the threat of being excommunicated from SWIFT is likely to focus certain individuals rather than the country as a whole, but we should not take this lying down, says 80eight …
00:12:57 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Are the banks warming to crypto?
Warren Deats, chief investment officer at Geddes Capital, explains that banks are likely far closer to entering the crypto space than many realise. Deats, himself a former banker and a crypto sceptic…
00:20:06 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
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 t…
00:25:41 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
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 …
00:18:54 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
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…
00:24:15 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
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 Staffor…
00:44:40 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
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.
00:23:17 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
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 …
00:20:27 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
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.
00:25:00 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
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…
00:20:31 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
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 a…
00:21:49 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
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 ar…
00:20:36 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Could quantum computing crack Bitcoin?
Rob Price, CEO of Sound Money, takes us through some of the extraordinary leaps in quantum computing in recent months and what threat this poses to Bitcoin's cryptography – and how bitcoiners are res…
00:13:46 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
How bitcoin went from cool to necessary
Jon Ovadia, CEO of OVEX, gives his predictions for bitcoin as a rush of companies concerned about financial uncertainty stack BTC on their balance sheets. He also explains how OVEX is building a worl…
00:36:15 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Court ruling exposes crypto exchange-control loophole
This could lead to a free-for-all, with crypto transfers abroad not subject to SA Reserve Bank approval – at least until the loophole is closed. Wiehann Olivier of Forvis Mazars takes us through the …
00:27:38 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Is Know Your Customer verification really that safe?
The recent hack of crypto exchange Coinbase, where criminals working with rogue insiders managed to get access to customer information and demanded $20m to keep it quiet, is an example of how KYC can…
00:29:16 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Why crypto arbitrage is more popular than ever
David Farelo, CEO of Currency Hub, explains how the buying and selling of cryptos between local and overseas exchanges has gone mainstream as wealth and fund managers are looking for relatively low-r…
00:22:33 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Tether, the world's richest crypto company, moves into AI
Tether made more than $13bn in profits in 2024 with just 150 employees, more than BlackRock and on par with Goldman Sachs. Now, it is moving into open-source AI. Omer Iqbal, CEO of FiveWest, explains…
00:19:13 |
Wed 07 May 2025
How to dollarise your life with stablecoins
Craig Stoehr, general counsel for Yellow Card, talks about the incredible rise of US dollar-backed stablecoins like Tether and USDC and how they offer a lifeline for Africans trapped in countries wit…
00:22:19 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
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