Analysis

Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has said that consultations with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are continuing regarding the launch of an Indian digital currency, or CBDC, later this year. 

South African mobile network operator MTN has bought 144 plots of land in the Africarare Ubuntuland metaverse for an undisclosed amount 

From Texas to the wild reaches of Inner Mongolia, there are dozens of territories around the globe where Bitcoin mining is especially prevalent. Yet, there remains little understanding about why these destinations are so popular for miners, and why they’re such important contributors to network resilience. 

Stakers combine their assets in a stake pool to increase their chances of reward and meet required minimum amount to stake.

Fiat currency is money issued by a central bank, cryptocurrency is digital money governed by blockchain, computer code, the crypto community.

Eva Crouwel, Head of Financial Crime at Luno shares her thoughts on the financial crime trends likely to await us in the coming year

When Bitcoin is written and talked about, previous attempts to create digital currencies that made Bitcoin possible are often overlooked. Attempts to create digital currencies had been undertaken numerous times since the late 1980s that pioneered some of the underlying…

A positive return on investment (ROI) is the holy grail of investing. It’s what all investors are after when they place their confidence and money in a certain asset, and has come to be a universally accepted measure of profitability. 

Spread is the difference in price between an ask and a bid.

An index is an aggregated security that tracks the performance of a collection of companies or assets. An example is the FTSE 100, which tracks the performance of the top 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

A bear market is the part of a market cycle when prices are trending downwards, generally due to fear that prices will continue to fall. This triggers further selloffs and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hedging is a way to reduce the risk of holding an asset. This is done by holding assets that are expected to have price moves in the opposite direction.