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Epizodes

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  Does the wine taste better when you own a piece of the vineyard? 30.07.2026 18min

  Bitexen SA CEO Mark Diuga explains how the new Arra Vineyard Token will give ordinary investors exposure to a working Stellenbosch wine farm – and why vineyards, sports clubs and safari lodges could be next in line for tokenisation.
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  Does Africa really need more local currency stablecoins? 23.07.2026 18min

  A new report by Standard Chartered and Zodia Markets argues for exactly this outcome. Rochelle McCauley from Standard Chartered Bank explains why.
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  Does Sars want to tax crypto to death? 16.07.2026 13min

  Some people think so. Others have a more nuanced view, among them Tertius Troost, tax specialist at RSM SA.
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  Stablecoins are just the start of something huge in finance 09.07.2026 17min

  If you thought stablecoins were cool, wait until you see what’s coming. Philipp Zentner of LI.FI has a front-row seat and says we are about to enter a world where billions of transactions a day will criss-cross different blockchains at a fraction of current costs.
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  Copper is not gold – and that’s the point 02.07.2026 18min

  Connie Bloem, CEO of Mesh Trade, explains why investors are falling in love with copper, which has doubled in price since 2023, and explores the benefits of tokenised copper, gold and silver.
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  Imagine getting scammed by your own son 25.06.2026 11min

  Or what AI convinces you – using voice and video cloning – is your own son, lying in a hospital bed and in desperate need of funds. This actually happened to a Cape Town couple. Thalia Pillay, co-founder and CEO of Orca Fraud, traces the frightening outlines of this new frontier of AI scams.
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  AI agent told to ‘make money’ launches memecoin, pockets $100m 18.06.2026 24min

  Silver Sixpence CEO Carel de Jager explains how AI agents will soon surpass the ‘human’ economy in size. He also relates the bizarre story of Truth Terminal, an AI agent that launched a hugely profitable memecoin after being instructed to instructed to make money.
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  Let’s be brave and lift exchange controls – Farzam Ehsani 11.06.2026 25min

  VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani says SA has a golden opportunity to lift exchange controls rather than tighten them. It will unleash innovation and attract capital, and what exactly are we trying to fix with these proposed regulations?
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  Are regulators strangling crypto in the crib? 04.06.2026 21min

  There’s been a ton of backlash against SA’s proposed new exchange control rules. AfriDax CEO Frank Leonette tells us why, and what he thinks will happen next.
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  Is bitcoin a buy? 28.05.2026 21min

  At around $75 000, bitcoin is down 40% from its peak of $124 000 in October last year. Rob Price of Sound Money explains why he thinks bitcoin is forming a bottom.
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  Can tokenisation spark an economic revival in SA? 21.05.2026 22min

  How much value is tied up in frozen assets in SA? If we can unfreeze these assets through tokenisation – allowing ordinary South Africans to buy fractions of companies, properties and even farms and rare wines, what value could be unlocked? Shiven Moodley, CEO of Novaque, brings us a little closer to understanding what’s possible.
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  Dawie Roodt: Do we still need exchange controls? 14.05.2026 21min

  The Efficient Group chief economist weighs in on new exchange control regulations and doesn’t like them one bit – nor, it appears, does he have much time for any kind of controls.
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  $1.2bn spent on crypto in a week and the market didn’t blink 07.05.2026 21min

  Institutions ploughed $1.2bn into bitcoin in a week and markets didn't blink. Cape Crypto CEO Leon Kowalski explains what's really driving crypto and shares his fiery take on government's proposed exchange control changes.
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  New exchange control rules: ‘If they pass, we’re leaving SA’ 29.04.2026 25min

  Adopting Bitcoin conference co-organiser Ricki Allardice takes a temperature reading of the room after publication of draft exchange control regulations ... and it’s getting hot.
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  Something new: A multi-currency token to rule them all 23.04.2026 19min

  And it promises to be more stable than a stablecoin.
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  We’re moving into the age of decentralised money 16.04.2026 15min

  Hannes Wessels, GM for Binance South Africa, explains why central bank issuance of money is facing competition from stablecoins – and it’s coming much faster than anyone imagined.
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  Selling trading signals is the scam du jour – FSCA 09.04.2026 24min

  Head of enforcement at the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, Gerhard van Deventer, walks us through a new generation of scams, from deep fakes of FSCA personnel to selling trading signals.
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  SA crypto exchange volumes are down 95% in five years 01.04.2026 21min

  Exchanges that used to transact 1 000 bitcoin a day are now doing 50. But while crypto transactions have collapsed, stablecoins have picked up the slack, says Carel de Jager, CEO of crypto data analytics firm Silver Sixpence.
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  Why SA needs stablecoin regulations – and fast 26.03.2026 24min

  Wiehann Olivier, partner and global co-head of digital assets for Forvis Mazars, explains what new stablecoin regulations will look like and why SA needs to speed up its regulatory reform.
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  Does SA really need another ZAR stablecoin? 19.03.2026 19min

  Langelihle Nkabinde from EasyEquities explains the role of the new Zaru rand stablecoin and why it’s so important.