{"id":84281,"date":"2023-03-27T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=84281"},"modified":"2023-03-26T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:57:57","slug":"bitcoin-is-poised-to-blow-up-africas-86-billion-banking-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2023\/bitcoin-is-poised-to-blow-up-africas-86-billion-banking-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin is poised to blow up Africa\u2019s $86 billion banking system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SQ\/\">Block<\/a> CEO Jack Dorsey and his top brass descended on Accra for the inaugural Africa Bitcoin Conference in December to talk about one of the most potentially disruptive and transformative alternatives to the continent\u2019s existing financial system: bitcoin. Since its inception in 2008, this unfamiliar form of money has alternatively been disdained as an absurdly complex toy for libertarian techies, a legalized form of gambling, a speculative bet to get rich quick, and a vehicle for criminals and fraudsters to obscure the origins of their ill-begotten gains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/03\/26\/bitcoin-is-poised-to-blow-up-africas-86-billion-banking-system.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Block CEO Jack Dorsey and his top brass descended on Accra for the inaugural Africa Bitcoin Conference in December to talk about one of the most potentially disruptive and transformative alternatives to the continent\u2019s existing financial system: bitcoin. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84285,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84281\/revisions\/84285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}