Helicarrier officially announces that it has today completed the signing of definitive agreements to acquire significant equity interest in Accrue. As part of this agreement, Buycoins Basic will be transitioning into Accrue effective immediately. “Embarking on this partnership underscores our dedication to democratising wealth building on the continent. Accrue has
A lot of the time — I agree with detractors of cryptocurrency and all their associated technologies. There’s a lot to criticise: * Majority of proclamations are utopian, mostly exaggerated because they lack nuance and a thorough understanding of the technology’s constraints at different levels of the stack. * Majority of
It’s very common to see proponents of blockchain/crypto/web3 technology talk about how it’ll completely change how the world deals with money. However, for most people today, it’s very difficult for them to connect their current experience with crypto to these proclamations of world upending greatness.
What’s in a name?
At Buycoins, we don’t have “loyalty” to any particular technology stack. We think that technical decisions should be made based on goals & constraints. Goals — what are we trying to achieve? Generally, the answer to the first question is: * We’d like to be able to get a new
On the 5th of February 2021 the Central Bank of Nigeria circulated a letter to all Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFs), and Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) in Nigeria. The letter, in summary, prohibited these institutions from working with cryptocurrency exchanges. What does this mean for BuyCoins? We
Our mission has always been to usher truly borderless exchange of value across the African continent and beyond. We’ve always been aware that this mission is a complex, multistage marathon and in 2020 we took some important strides that we’re admittedly proud of – not because we’ve achieved
A month ago, I wrote an article about a dApp game that someone anonymous built on top of NGNT. A good amount of people responded to me (on Twitter) that it all sounds very interesting on the surface, but they don’t really understand what a dApp (decentralised application) is
Problem It’s quite difficult to buy and/or sell BTC (or other cryptocurrencies) in Africa. Currently, in some countries, bitcoin exchanges exist but they don’t provide the best possible experience with little or no barrier to entry. Card payments or direct bank payments aren’t possible which are