Bitcoin miners are solving Africa’s huge power deficit

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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.

22 Jul 2025 English South Africa Tech News · Investing

Can tokenisation spark an economic revival in SA?

How much value is tied up in frozen assets in SA? If we can unfreeze these assets through tokenisation – allowing ordinary South Africans to buy fractions of companies, properties and even farms and rare wines, what value could be unlocked? Shiven Moodley, CEO of Novaque, brings us a little…

21 May 22 min

Dawie Roodt: Do we still need exchange controls?

The Efficient Group chief economist weighs in on new exchange control regulations and doesn’t like them one bit – nor, it appears, does he have much time for any kind of controls.

14 May 21 min

$1.2bn spent on crypto in a week and the market didn’t blink

Institutions ploughed $1.2bn into bitcoin in a week and markets didn't blink. Cape Crypto CEO Leon Kowalski explains what's really driving crypto and shares his fiery take on government's proposed exchange control changes.

7 May 21 min

New exchange control rules: ‘If they pass, we’re leaving SA’

Adopting Bitcoin conference co-organiser Ricki Allardice takes a temperature reading of the room after publication of draft exchange control regulations ... and it’s getting hot.

29 Apr 25 min

Something new: A multi-currency token to rule them all

And it promises to be more stable than a stablecoin.

23 Apr 19 min