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Louis Nel, co-host of the G-Crypt social media channel, talks about the emergence of some new and alarming scams, often using crypto vulnerabilities. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Katie Ananina of Plan B passport explains some recent updates to Portugal's Golden Visa programme that permits an investment into a bitcoin fund as a route to an EU passport. It seems other countries are eyeing this development with interest too. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Waheed Adam, chairperson of iTouch, explains that the threats from AI and deep fakes are very real, and how one multinational company lost $25 million to a deep fake fraudster pretending to be the CEO. iTouch has developed a digital authentication system using tokenisation to beat this disturbing trend. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Farzam Ehsani, CEO of crypto exchange VALR, argues bitcoin represents a monumental leap in personal freedom given the inequalities and distortions built into the current financial system. If it is an instrument of freedom, what will that freedom look like? Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Some companies like 80Eight are using crypto not as a speculative investment but as a way to expand business opportunities. Founder and CEO Faadil Moti explains how it's done. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Carel de Jager, research group leader at the CSIR and CEO of SilverSixpence, says the country will soon be swimming in surplus solar power after years of loadshedding. Bitcoin mining is one obvious solution to this surplus. De Jager takes us through the economics of bitcoin mining. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Hanres Beukes, CEO and founder of NeoNomad, came up with a plan to ignite mass market crypto adoption - a hybrid exchange blending the best of centralised and decentralised exchanges in a way that is simple and cheap to use. Unless people can spend crypto, adoption rates will remain low, he argues. Here's how he is tackling this market. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

Christo de Wit, SA country manager for Luno, explains the challenges of shipping crypto from one address to another and how 'poisoning attacks' – with addresses similar to your own – are on the increase. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

It transforms the internet from a read-write function to a platform where anyone can receive payment without a bank siphoning off a percentage, as explained by Francesco Andreoli, who leads the developer community efforts at Consensys, and Monica Singer, South Africa advisor for Consensys. Moneyweb Crypto news articles

You might wonder what cellphones can possibly have to do with blockchain technology. They're called crypto or blockchain phones and they do a few things that normal smartphones do not, as Brian Maw, one of the originators of the Phēnix X blockchain phone, explains. Moneyweb Crypto news articles