Author: Thurgood Mashiane

In what might be the biggest news for cryptocurrency adoption since the debut of Facebook’s Libra project last year, rumors from sources familiar with the matter claim that PayPal and its recently acquired subsidiary, Venmo, may soon launch the ability to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies right from each payment provider. If the rumors are true, and one of crypto’s biggest competitors concedes and starts embracing the digital asset class, it could cause an explosive butterfly effect of hastened cryptocurrency adoption. PayPal To Embrace Competition Through Cryptocurrencies A recent Coindesk report reveals that PayPal and Venmo, two of the largest…

How do you usually order a takeaway? Do you prefer the old-fashioned method of calling the takeaway up? Or do you order from a delivery marketplace online?  As technology continues to develop and become more available to all, some takeaways are now introducing a new ordering option for their customers: in-app ordering.  App building made simpler The reason why so many small businesses are able to benefit from in-house apps nowadays is because of the simplification of the app creating process. Using an app builder for takeaways, these businesses can create their own apps with no coding or development experience…

The Premier League resumed action back on 17 June, with the temporarily changed rules altering the general dynamic of matches. In turn, the new rules package has affected the betting experience in a myriad of ways. This year marks the very first time Premier League games have been played in June and July. Goal time markets In a majority of cases, live Premier League matchday betting prices will fluctuate the longer time goes on without a goal. Sometimes, even odds-on favorites can eventually find themselves with odds against them at a very late stage. However, that process will often begin…

This article will focus on a number of factors concerning South Africa’s relations with the rest of the world and how these play out on the world stage. Development It is possible to describe the world as being made up of two kinds of nations. Those that are rich and developed and those that are poor and underdeveloped. Generally speaking, the quality of life and income in developed countries is continually improving whereas the same cannot be said for those underdeveloped counties, where the quality of life seems to be on a downward path. Most of these poorer nations are…

Money often feels like an immovable part of our society and way of life. Historians estimate that metal objects were initially used as cash in 5,000 B.C. – coins dating back to approximately 700 B.C., around 50 generations ago. But are we approaching an era in which an economic state could exist without money? Could manual banknotes and coins become obsolete in this shift towards digitization? Could digital information become an electronic alternative to money? Everywhere you look, there are new methods of payment. We no longer need to type in our pin number when buying products or services under…

South Africa has been actively positioning itself as a global crypto hub similar to Switzerland or Malta. The welcoming climate allows these digital assets to flourish, and Bitcoin interest in the region has been surging as a result. Dawie Roodt, a popular South African economist and Bitcoin supporter, claims that Bitcoin is increasingly becoming a hedge against political risk in the region. Growth in Bitcoin was also accompanied by spiking interest in day trading. During the cryptocurrency bear market, new investors turned to trading so they could shortfall prices as a hedge and prevent capital loss. Platforms such as PrimeXBT,…

The rapid pace of technological development has truly catapulted mankind into the digital age at an exponential rate. Many statistics demonstrate the effectiveness of digital marketing as compared to traditional advertising. Judging by current trends alone, by 2021, digital advertising is projected to generate a whopping $172 billion in ad revenue, far surpassing traditional advertisement’s $67 billion prediction. A huge factor in the astronomical success of digital campaigning can be accrued to the market share dominance many social media platforms have come to claim in recent years. They are the new age juggernauts and nothing’s slowing them down. They will…

Bitcoin halving is a much-hyped event that has gotten a lot of attention & fanfare for the past few weeks in tech and regular news media both internationally and locally in South Africa – as Bitcoin enthusiasts, exchanges and investors worldwide were looking forward to it and anticipating its effect on Bitcoin price. Bitcoin halving happened on 11th May 2020 at 3:21 p.m. EST when 630,000th block was mined. This is the 3rd halving event in the history of Bitcoin. The first one happened on 28 November 2012 and the second happened on 9 July 2016. Many of us non-tech…

Mobile casinos in XXI century are revolutionising the gaming industry, and it doesn’t show as this trend will change. On the contrary, everything tells us that we go into more of a society that wants to have immediate access from any place and at any time to different kinds of services from shopping, through our personal appointments to entertainment. No surprise then that more and more casino players are accessing their favourite online casinos from the screen of their mobile device, it is a smartphone, an iPad, or even on some occasion their smartwatch. Yes, smartwatches, like Apple Watch, for…

Only a little while ago the economic concerns of South Africa were about load shedding and the worry was over the increase in half a percent to the government’s debt of 70% to the GDP.  Today, with the coronavirus the fall out is anyone’s guess. With huge job losses and the effect on the health care service, how will South Africa emerge from this pandemic? Even if the country emerges from this without huge numbers of fatalities and if the health system doesn’t completely collapse, can South Africa be revived? The unemployment rate will be off the charts and the…