“M-Pesa operator Safaricom will not be required to grant access to bitcoin startup BitPesa amid an ongoing legal dispute.” This was the ruling on the 14th of December 2015, by a Kenyan High Court ...

Kenyan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology minister Joe Mucheru is unable to sell his shares in BitPesa after the federal government imposed tightened regulations on virtual currency ...

African Bitcoin startup BitPesa launched its remittance service in Tanzania today. The service previously was available only in Kenya, where the company is headquartered. It hopes to undercut the fees ...

Kenya-based bitcoin services provider BitPesa has raised $1.1m as part of a new funding round led by hedge fund Pantera Capital. CEO Elizabeth Rossiello explained that funding comes at a time when the ...

Africa is a huge market for so many things and one of the most needed things are banks and a way to access capital and pay for things. Hello BitPesa, a mobile payments startup that just got some ...

Bitcoin payments startup BitPesa has raised $2.5m in a new Series A funding round. The round was led by Draper VC, and included support from Greycroft Partners, Blockchain Capital, BnkToTheFuture, ...

Bitcoin blockchain mining infrastructure provider BitFury has announced it has made a strategic investment in the universal African Bitcoin exchange BitPesa. Founded in 2013, BitPesa sees itself as an ...

One bitcoin start-up is building what it hopes will become a template for using digital currencies in the developing world, a much-talked-about market for cryptocurrencies. It's called BitPesa, it's ...

Kenyan Bitcoin exchange BitPesa has raised a $1.1 million in a second round of funding that was led by Pantera Capital and included Crypto Currency Partners, Stephens Investment Management, Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin exchanges are already helping business turn customers' bitcoins into dollars, instantly. But they might have an even bigger impact in a place like Kenya. At least that's the hope of a ...

The digital currency Bitcoin has no ties to sovereign states and only exists as zeros and ones in cyberspace. Now, a Kenyan start up is bringing Africa closer to its biggest investor, China, by ...