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Moneyweb Crypto explores all things crypto and blockchain: the good, the bad and the impossible. If you're looking to invest in cryptocurrencies, or understand this evolving universe, you're in the right place.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Moneyweb Crypto connects blockchain's technical claims to housing, fraud, exchange safeguards and the regulators expected to make those systems answerable.
Kieran Ryan starts with a concrete problem, then asks where crypto or blockchain might change the machinery behind it. Moneyweb Crypto uses focused guest interviews to connect the technology with housing finance, exchange security, financial scams and South African regulation.
No payslip, no mortgage; Kieran Ryan asks how you'd get a house anyway.
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This episode discusses BitGit, a major global cryptocurrency exchange, entering the South African market with products like crypto-linked credit cards and high-yield returns, featuring an interview with their Head of Growth for Africa.
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MoneyWeb Crypto host Kieran Ryan interviews Empower CEO and co-founder Glenn Jordan about rent-to-own housing finance for Africa's informal sector, where only 3% of people qualify for mortgages and demand is estimated at 50 million homes.
Moneyweb Crypto host Kieran Ryan interviews Rob Price about the claim that Bitcoin facilitates crime, including Chainalysis’s estimate that illicit activity represents 0.14% of crypto’s on-chain transaction volume.
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