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Paxful expands beyond bitcoin, adds tether to its platform
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1200, September 11, 2020 (EAT)
Global peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, Paxful, has announced the addition of Tether (USDT) to its platform. The inclusion of USDT, the world’s ...
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Teen arrested for massive Twitter hack
By CNN,
1653, August 1, 2020 (EAT)
Three people were charged on Friday for their alleged involvement in a massive Twitter hack earlier this month that took over the accounts of prominen...
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Twitter blames ‘coordinated’ attack on systems for hack of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Joe Biden
By CNN,
858, July 16, 2020 (EAT)
Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitte...
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Paxful launches series of webinars on Bitcoin resourcefulness during COVID-19 pandemic
By Agencies,
906, June 16, 2020 (EAT)
Paxful, a peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) marketplace, that aims to provide financial inclusion around the globe, launched a series of webinars targeted at...
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Paxful launches bitcoin donation campaign to support charities in Africa’s response to COVID-19
By Citizen,
1529, May 11, 2020 (EAT)
In 2017, Paxful launched the #BuiltWithBitcoin charitable initiative to show that bitcoin can help people around the world. With the goal to build ...
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Cryptocurrency plan will radically transform Kenya’s monetary system: report
By Kepha Muiruri,
1334, July 30, 2019 (EAT)
A ICT Ministry-backed team has retained its quest for the development of cryptocurrency assets in Kenya in spite of regulator unease. The task-forc...
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Global money-laundering watchdog launches crackdown on cryptocurrencies
By Reuters,
1138, June 22, 2019 (EAT)
Cryptocurrency firms will be subjected to rules to prevent the abuse of digital coins such as bitcoin for money laundering, a global watchdog said on ...
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Facebook to launch its own cryptocurrency
By Reuters,
1447, June 18, 2019 (EAT)
Facebook Inc. revealed plans on Tuesday to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra, the latest development in its effort to expand beyond social networki...
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Role of blockchain in the face of cyber threats
By Moses Ngugi,
1829, June 7, 2019 (EAT)
Blockchain technology is fast gaining acceptance all over the world. This sudden change of fortune for technology that has been in existence since ...
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Man pays Ksh.463M for lunch with Warren Buffett
By CNN,
1210, June 4, 2019 (EAT)
Cryptocurrency skeptic Warren Buffett will dine with a bitcoin enthusiast, all in the name of charity. Entrepreneur Justin Sun bid $4.57million (Ks...
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Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst
By Reuters,
2109, April 2, 2019 (EAT)
Bitcoin soared to its highest in almost five months on Tuesday, pulling smaller cryptocurrencies up with it, after a major order by an anonymous buyer...
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How Zimbabwe became world’s most expensive place to fuel a car
By CNN,
850, January 22, 2019 (EAT)
In the Fall of 2017, Zimbabweans took to the streets in mass protests against a regime that was presiding over a broken economy and collapsing living ...
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Ford and IBM among quartet in Congo cobalt blockchain project
By Reuters,
1200, January 17, 2019 (EAT)
Carmaker Ford (F.N), technology giant IBM (IBM.N), South Korean cathode maker LG Chem (051910.KS) and China’s Huayou Cobalt (603799.SS) have joined ...
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Bitcoin plunges below Ksh.600K to lowest level in more than a year
By CNN,
2011, November 15, 2018 (EAT)
Bitcoin's price plummeted more than 10% on Wednesday, hitting its lowest level in more than a year. It's now trading below $6,000, far from the height...
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Bitcoin volatility sinks to lowest in nearly two years
By Reuters,
1858, November 6, 2018 (EAT)
Bitcoin has experienced one of its worst annual price performances of its short 10-year-old life but also appears to have become more stable in the pr...
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Birthday blues for bitcoin as investors face year-on-year loss
By Reuters,
2124, November 1, 2018 (EAT)
Bitcoin was heading toward a year-on-year loss on Wednesday, its 10th birthday, the first loss since last year’s bull market, when the original and ...
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Twitter bans crytocurrency ads on fraud fears
By AFP,
920, March 27, 2018 (EAT)
Twitter has announced a ban on ads for initial offerings of cryptocurrency or sales of virtual currency tokens, sending the value of bitcoin diving be...
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Soros to Google and Facebook: ‘You are on borrowed time’
By AFP,
1033, January 26, 2018 (EAT)
Billionaire investor George Soros launched a scathing attack on tech giants at the Davos summit on Thursday, calling them monopolies that could be man...
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Hackers take advantage of bitcoin’s wild ride
By CNN,
1115, December 31, 2017 (EAT)
Bitcoin is booming and so are criminal schemes looking to make money off the trend. The hype around cryptocurrency is only growing, fueled by the m...
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Kibaki, Msando, Tibim, Sarahah among top Google searches of 2017
By Ian Omondi,
1905, December 13, 2017 (EAT)
Kenyans did not really care much for President Uhuru Kenyatta and NASA leader Raila Odinga, at least in their Google searches this year. That honour w...
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