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
We shouldn’t fear AI, we should rise with it
Former Microsoft executive Kerushan Govender – author of Age Of Agency: Rise With AI – says fears over the impact of artificial intelligence are overblown, that ‘human agency’ trumps machines, and lo…
00:25:11 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
African currencies are being smashed as stablecoins come to the rescue.
Jon Ovadia, CEO of crypto exchange OVEX, walks us through the casualty list of African currencies decimated over the last two years, and how US dollar-backed stablecoins are exploding across the cont…
00:23:20 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
First crypto FSP licences about to drop
Gerhard van Deventer, head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, says the first batch of financial services provider (FSP) licences are about to be issued to crypto service provid…
00:29:43 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Ditching the rand and going off grid with bitcoin
Glenn Jooste, co-founder of Bitcoin Ubuntu, explains how trying to save in ever depreciating rands is a losing proposition, and how bitcoin solves this.
00:20:45 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Got surplus solar power? Start bitcoin mining
Jesse Pielke, founder of Hashrate Up, is helping South Africans use surplus solar power generated during the day for bitcoin mining (and it's less expensive than you might think).
00:22:14 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
Will we see the mother of all bitcoin rallies in 2024?
Omer Iqbal, CEO of crypto company FiveWest, shares his thoughts on the big crypto stories of 2023 and the likelihood of the mother of all bitcoin bull markets in 2024.
00:20:46 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
Now you can trade perpetual futures on bitcoin
What on earth are those? Gianluca Sacco, chief operating officer at VALR, explains. Crypto exchange VALR recently announced the world's first perpetual futures on bitcoin, payable in rands, with some…
00:26:55 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Former Europol agents helping SA with crypto law enforcement
Nils Andersen Röed and Jarek Jakubcek, who are now with Binance, were recently in SA to train local regulators and authorities on the ever-evolving tricks of crypto criminals.
00:36:02 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Meet the crypto sceptic who owned and lost more than 50 bitcoin
Marcel Wasserman is a financial advisor who once owned 52 bitcoin, having bought at under R1 000. He became less enthusiastic about bitcoin after losing most of it and selling the rest. Today, he's m…
00:23:46 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Death, taxes and crypto
Thomas Lobban of Tax Consulting SA warns of new OECD regulations that will help tax authorities worldwide to track your crypto transactions no matter where you live.
00:21:47 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Why you might want to own a rand stablecoin
It fixes many of the problems in the existing financial system such as high costs and speed of transaction. Simon Dingle, founder of the ZARP rand-backed stablecoin, explains why stablecoins are the …
00:24:58 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Are we in for a pre-Xmas rally in Bitcoin ?
It's already up more than 30% over the last month. VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani explains what's behind this explosive move, and VALR's recent partnership with card issuer Visa as a sign of the fusing of tr…
00:26:49 |
Wed 01 Nov 2023
Will central bank digital cash ever take off in SA?
Michail le Roux of Hanekom Attorneys says CBDCs are coming and that fears of a snooping state examining all our transactions are overblown. Plus the prospects of voting by cell phone in the future, u…
00:28:12 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Is Bitcoin's 6 month sideways crawl about to break?
With a bitcoin halving of supply in 2024, Jason Welz, head of digital assets at alternative investment firm Jaltech, points out that all previous "halvenings" have been preceded by a bull run. Will i…
00:24:12 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Own a slice of property for R100 with new fractional ownership exchanges
Libex and law firm Schindlers have partnered in setting up two exchanges offering investors the opportunity to list and own fractional pieces of assets from farms to residential buildings. Chaz Dunn,…
00:26:31 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Crypto scammers have met their match.
Carel de Jager, head of distributed ledger technology at CSIR, explains how he tracked down stolen funds from a Moneyweb reader with a new blockchain tool that is being offered to crime busters world…
00:32:44 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Is the rand ultimately headed to R100 to the US dollar?
Andrew Field, co-founder of BitDirect, explains the history and likely future of money, arguing that the rand will ultimately hit R100 to the US dollar. There's a long history of fiat currency failur…
00:28:47 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
How the crypto industry is redefining ownership
Blockchain is transforming everything we know about ownership. This is the killer use case for blockchain - establishing title to property and, with that, the ability to transfer and trade property r…
00:27:22 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
The taxi industry goes cashless
Eastern Cape taxi operators embrace blockchain technology as they ditch cash and start to compete with the major retailers, explains Sonny Fisher of ForUS.
00:29:18 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
D-Day approaches for crypto companies as regulations kick in
Gerhard van Deventer, head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, explains how the crypto industry is about to get the policing it has long needed.
00:22:45 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
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