Peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) marketplace, Paxful on Friday announced a strategic partnership with OKEx, a cryptocurrency exchange with high liquidity and cold storage technologies. The partnership seeks to integrate the Paxfu Kiosk directly onto the OKEx platform, for new and existing OKEx users. The strategic integration between OKEx and Paxful provides convenient payment methods for OKEx […]
Paxful, together with Cosmopolitan Magazine South Africa, has launched an annual list of the leading female professionals and entrepreneurs in the African Blockchain and Bitcoin industries, to highlight some of the most influential women in these emerging sectors. The list is in honour of International Women’s Day celebrated annually in March, the global peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, […]
BitPesa has announced that it has secured a $15 million debt funding from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). The digital foreign exchange and payment platform also announced that it has since rebranded to AZA Group. Bitpesa plans to use the funding to expand in emerging markets. Besides Kenya, BitPesa currently operates in Nigeria, […]
Peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, Paxful on Monday has announced that it has now serviced 3 million wallets with more than 800,000 being added in the last 12 months, predominantly in the USA, Nigeria, and Ghana. They have also seen 15 million trades cross the platform during the past year, a 65 per cent increase versus the […]
Blockchain technology and the role of entrepreneurship in driving Africa’s prosperity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), were some of the key topics taking centre stage at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF). Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer global bitcoin marketplace, is excited about the improving economic outlook for Africa and entrepreneurial growth opportunities. With nearly […]
Peer to Peer Bitcoin platform, Paxful, has launched a mobile wallet app in Kenya which enables bitcoin transactions to be conducted with ease.
Bitcoin payment is gathering momentum in developing nations such as Kenya. While most have viewed bitcoins on the lenses of its mining and or investing, a growing number of businesses are setting up systems in their shops that are able to transact using such cryptocurrencies. Businesses are looking at bitcoins as a means to increase […]