XRP Cape Town Meetup: How to Trade and Arbitrage with XRP in South Africa
Xago office, 16A Newmarket St, Foreshore, Cape Town: 12 November 2019: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Xago and Blockchain Academy are excited to be co-hosting the next XRP Meet-up in Cape Town on the opportunities that exist with trading and arbitraging XRP in South Africa.
Co-founder and CEO of Xago, Jurgen Kuhnel, will give an overview of exactly what arbitraging is, why you would do it, how it works and most importantly, the low-down on how to take advantage of the arbitraging opportunities in South Africa using the cryptocurrency, XRP.
Xago recently launched their XRP only exchange providing South Africans with an opportunity to buy and sell, and send and receive, XRP.
XRP is a cryptocurrency launched by the company Ripple in 2012 and third in terms of market capitalisation after Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
This blockchain technology is used in use cases for micropayments, e-commerce, exchanges and peer-to-peer services. XRP and the XRP Ledger are open-source technology that anyone can build on.
Faster, less costly and more scalable than any other digital asset, XRP and the XRP Ledger are used to power innovative technology across the payments space.
This is event is FREE!
Who should attend?
Anyone who is interested in cryptocurrencies, particularly XRP, and interested to trade and arbitrage in South Africa, using XRP.
What is included?
- Introduction to Xago and invitations to future events hosted by Xago
- Access to other cryptocurrency enthusiasts, traders and investors
Venue: Shimmy Beach Club, Cape Town Don't miss this first of its kind event in South Africa! The Crypto Fest is hosted by Bitcoin Events, organisers of the annual Blockchain Africa Conferences hosted in South Africa since 2015. This is going to be a fun-filled afternoon at the beautiful Shimmey Beach Club where thought leaders will discuss the various opportunities cryptocurrencies offer. ]]>
Crypto Festival 2019
Cape Town: 7 September 2019
The Blockchain Academy is excited to announce its partnership and involvement at the upcoming Crypto Fest 2019 at Shimmy Beach Club in Cape Town.
This first of its kind, one-day event will be moving away from the traditional conference and exhibition model, to a ground-breaking festival of engaging, thought-provoking and quality content on three stages, focusing on cryptocurrency investments, trading, and payments. The event will drive meaningful discussions and debates on how to accelerate global adoption of cryptocurrencies and to explore the many opportunities that exist.
The focus of the event will be on cryptocurrency:
– Investments
– Trading
– Payments
The event will provide attendees with an immersive experience, plenty of engagement with well-known speakers and thought leaders, fantastic networking opportunities and showcase the real-world applications on how this technology is being used globally.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear speakers debate highly contentious and emotive topics in the Crypto Battle Arena, enter competitions to win some amazing crypto prizes, receive a crypto branded pair of socks and enjoy networking opportunities at the after party!
Since inception, Bitcoin Events has cut through the hype and provided a platform for educating, upskilling and driving long-term strategies on the benefits and challenges that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology offers for businesses, governments, non-profits, and individuals.
What is included?
- A pair of funky crypto socks
- Networking with some of the major players in the industry
- Access to the event, exhbitions and the after-party!
- Light snacks and refreshments
- Giveaways and competitions
Who should attend?
The event will be of interest to anyone interested in cryptocurrencies and in particular for:
- Crypto enthusiasts
- Traders
- Investors
- Venture capitalists
- Entrepreneurs
- Payment providers
- Corporates interested to use blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies
Standard Tickets now available at R550 per person!
Some of the speakers include:
Jeremy Musighi
Chief Investment Officer at Immutable Capital
Louis Buys
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Revix
Vojtech Simetka
Co-Founder of Blockchain for Humanity and Giveth
James Preston
Managing Editor at SA Crypto
Connie Gallippi
Founder and Executive Director at BitGive Foundation
Graeme Tennant
Financial Analyst at AvantCore (Pty) Ltd
Rocelo Lopes
Founder of CoinBR, CEO of Stratum and CoinPY
Richard De Sousa
Founder of AltCoinTrader
Crypto Christmas Party
Cape Town: 13 December 2018
Join the Blockchain Academy, The Blockchain Entrepreneurs Club (BECSA), Bitcoin Events, DreamBlock and Nona in celebrating a busy year in the blockchain space.
BECSA (The Blockchain Entrepreneurs Club South Africa) are the organisers of this event.
This is an informal event, where the community really gets the opportunity to network and have some fun. There will be some amazing blockchain influencers in Cape Town who will be there as featured guests so this will really be an opportunity to meet some of the blockchain pioneers in the Cape Town blockchain scene.
There will be a private bar and area at the Secret Gin Bar, and light snacks will be provided.
Price: R70.00
- 18:30pm – til late
- Venue: The Secret Gin Bar, 64A Wale Street, Cape Town
- Refreshments included
The Crypto and Coffee Series
Rise, Cape Town: 14 December 2018
This is the first event in a series of events to introduce individuals to a variety of cryptocurrencies, how they work, which are the more interesting cryptocurrencies to invest in and how to identify the best platforms and exchanges to use for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. We will also explore potential scams and best-practice for safely storing your cryptocurrencies.
This event is kindly sponsored by Stratum. Founded in 2013, Stratum is a leader in blockchain services in Brazil, Latin America and South Africa and is operational in the areas of cryptocurrency mining, exchange, solutions and incentives related to bitcoin and various cryptocurrencies and altcoins.
This is event is FREE!
10:00 – 10:15am: Networking and Coffee
10:15 – 10:25am: Welcome by Antoinette Prophy
10:25 – 10:35am: The history of cryptocurrencies and its significance in the world today
10:35 – 11:00am: A look at some of the most interesting cryptocurrencies and altcoins such as bitcoin, bitcoin cash, monero, dash, zcash, XRP, ethereum, ethereum classic and EOS
11:00 – 11:15am: What are hard forks and how does this affect users? A brief look at the recent Bitcoin Cash fork and the resulting hash war
11:15 – 11:30am: SCAMS: What are typical cryptocurrency scams and how to avoid them
11:30 – 12:10pm: How to buy and sell cryptocurrencies on exchanges and platforms, how the price is determined, transaction fees and how to securely store cryptocurrencies in a wallet
12:10 – 12:30pm: Light Snacks and Coffee Break
12:30 – 12:50pm: Director of Stratum, Carmen Potgieter will talk about some of the services Stratum offers and which cryptos or altcoins are the interesting ones to consider for investment purposes
12:50 – 13:00pm: Closing off and Question and Answer session
The event will be held at the Work in Progress Innovation Lab, Block B, 5th Floor, (Woodstock Exchange), 66 – 68 Albert Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925.
Who should attend?
Anyone who is interested in cryptocurrencies, who would like to invest in or know more about some of the top cryptocurrencies and altcoins such as bitcoin, ether, XRP (Ripple), Monero, Dash, EOS, Litecoin, ZCash and Tether and those who want to learn how to make cryptocurrency payments.
What is included?
- You will receive coffee, snacks and refreshments
- Win a FREE ticket to the Blockchain Africa Conference 2019!
- Introduction to Stratum and continued support
- Access to other cryptocurrency enthusiasts, traders and investors
Requirements
- No requirements other than an interest in learning about cryptocurrencies!
Event Conveners and Presenters
Antoinette Prophy
Host
About Antoinette
Antoinette is the Founder and Managing Director of 88 Business Collective founded in 2016, which focuses on accelerating Female Founders utilising her Growth Through Collaboration methodology. Antoinette is passionate about the opportunities that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology offer in terms of entrepreneurship and inclusion.
Carel de Jager
Instructor
About Carel
Carel has been an active investor and crypto miner since the early days. He has a high appetite for risk and ICO’s sparked his interest as an alternative investment vehicle in 2016. Being an engineer, his investment interest soon developed to a fascination and passion for the underlying technology that forms the Blockchain. He is a firm believer that the blockchain is the next step of financial evolution which will revolutionize the way we transact.
The Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Impact Finance
Cape Town: 1 August 2018
Join us for an exciting evening with 6 amazing speakers including our MD, Sonya Kuhnel on how technology will change the way we measure, fund and scale impact globally. By scanning the current landscape of impact tech and exploring where we are headed, we will paint a picture of the future of social enterprise, impact investing and innovative financing—pushed to new heights by the emergence of enabling, exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence and the blockchain.
The session will begin with an overview of the exponential technology for impact finance space and will then move onto six TED style talks by founders of exponential technology firms for impact. Finally, we will have a short Q&A session with the founders.
This event is proudly co-hosted by Intelligent Impact, The Field Institute, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Endowment and The Blockchain Academy.
About the speakers:
Aunnie Patton Power
Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute and an advisor to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Graduate School of Business. A reformed M&A investment banker, she began her impact investing career in 2010 with Unitus Capital in Bangalore and has since worked with start-ups, intermediaries, funds, family offices, foundations, corporates and governments across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Aunnie has designed millions of dollars worth of innovative financing instruments including the first social impact bonds in Africa. Currently, Aunnie lectures on Innovative Finance, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact at UCT, Oxford and the London School of Economics and consults globally on the intersection of emerging technologies for impact finance and the creation of innovative financing and impact investing strategies for organizations.
Shaun Conway
Dr Shaun Conway is the founder of the Ixo Foundation and co-creator of TrustLab, a trust-tech venture production studio based in Cape Town. The ixo Foundation is a nonprofit open-source software development foundation building the ixo Blockchain for Impact. With ixo, all measurable changes that have an impact can now be transformed into Verified Impact Data, with crypto-economic Proof of Impact. Shaun is a clinically experienced physician with a career in Global Health and Sustainable Development.
Fleur Heyns
Fleur Heyns started her career in investment banking after graduating from Oxford University with a BSC in Biochemistry. At the age of 23 she co-founded and ran Africa’s first FinTech business, a retail derivatives trading platform Global Trader, expanded this to 4 continents and sold the company in 2007. After a short social entrepreneurship course in 2009 at INSEAD she decided to dedicate all her resources and effort to impact. She is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor to many impact initiatives that all share the same purpose of delivering on maximum impact in a commercially viable way. Her two latest ventures are 17AssetManagement, an asset management company in partnership with the UN based out of New York and Proof of Impact an impact verification company leveraging off block chain innovations incorporated in the Netherlands.
David Wood
David has a background in investment banking having developed derivative systems both locally and in London for organizations such as Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and the like. Having grown up on a farm in KwaZulu Natal and having developed systems for various game reserves he has an affinity for Africa’s wild spaces and animals. He is also painfully aware of the catastrophic failure of existing economic structures to address the external costs of economic activity, which is resulting in a crisis for Africa’s ecosystems and animals. David believes that new technologies, such as BlockChain, AI, IoT, etc, if applied correctly, can address these market failures and create a much better form of accounting and economy. To this end he has founded a startup called Wadappt which is a blockchain based smart contract platform that uses innovative financing techniques to allocate substantial amounts of capital directly into conservation efforts in Africa. A component of this platform includes impact investing. He is currently working with African Parks to launch the platform and is almost ready to allocate the first investment of $1m into a high impact project.
Sonya Kuhnel
Sonya Kuhnel has been interested in cryptocurrencies since late 2013 when she started a bitcoin payment company called Bitcoin Payments, a BitPay Affiliate partner, which allowed online merchants in South Africa to accept bitcoin as a payment method for goods and services. In 2014, Sonya co-founded Bitcoin Events, a company that hosts the Blockchain Africa Conferences in Cape Town and Johannesburg, the first of its kind in Africa. In 2015, Sonya founded the Blockchain Academy, which provides training and consulting on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, world-wide. Sonya is also the Co-founder of Bitsure, which is an innovative payment platform that utilises blockchain technology to allow instant settlement and clearing of transactions in the retail industry. Sonya is also the co-organiser of the Bitcoin Cape Town Meetup Group, which has over 700 members to date. Sonya is passionate about disruptive technology, digital currencies and the blockchain technology. She feels there are a vast number of opportunities for using digital currencies and blockchain technology in both financial and non-financial industries and is therefore committed to educating people in South Africa on this exciting technology.
Danai Musandu
Danai is a member of the South Africa Goodwell team, where she is in charge of development of the investment process. She aspires to contribute to the inclusive growth for Africa and to ensure that local solutions answer local problems. Danai holds a BCom PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and a postgraduate Honors Degree in Economics. Her previous involvement in UCT Upstarts and the UCT Entrepreneurs Society has fed her passion and interest in entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa. Danai and her team are currently working on a research project about the future of inclusive digital economy in Africa, having mapped and researched 2000 start-ups and scale-ups in Africa. She is particularly interested in the future of technology and sectorial convergences in Africa as a means of building digital infrastructure on the continent.
Price: FREE
- 17:30pm – 19:00pm
- Refreshments included
- Network opportunity
Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin
Cape Town: 28th June 2018
Join us for the first of a series of events, as a Beginners Guide to a range of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology related topics.
The first event, will be a beginners guide to learning about bitcoin and in partnership with South Africa’s first bitcoin exchange, Luno. This session is designed for individuals who just want to learn the basics and not delve into the technicalities of how this technology works.
This event is sponsored by Luno. South Africa’s first bitcoin exchange.
About this event:
The growing interest surrounding the opportunities that cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, offers, is evident through the enquiries received by the Blockchain Academy.
From investing, trading, mining bitcoin, the opportunities definitely exist. This event is for individuals looking for a crash course on bitcoin: how to get started using bitcoin, buying, selling on local and international cryptocurrency exchanges, securely storing bitcoin in a wallet, sending and receiving bitcoin and learning about the risks and regulation that governments are imposing on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Price: R250.00
- 17:30pm – 20:00pm
- Refreshments included
- Blockchain Academy classroom
- Receive free bitcoin
- No laptop required
- No prior knowledge or experience of bitcoin or blockchain technology is required
Introduction
- What is bitcoin and blockchain technology?
- Why is bitcoin so revolutionary?
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
- What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in South Africa and why?
- What are some of the best cryptocurrency exchanges globally and why?
- How do cryptocurrency exchanges work?
- What do I need to know when using a cryptocurrency exchange?
How Do I Use Bitcoin?
- What are the different ways I can get bitcoin?
- How do I buy and sell bitcoin?
- How does an order book work?
- What are the fees associated with buying and selling bitcoin?
- How do I send and receive bitcoin?
- Live demo: the presenter will send some bitcoin to someone in the class to demonstrate the process
Cryptocurrency Wallets and Security
- How do I store bitcoin?
- What are the different types of cryptocurrency wallets and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
- How do I ensure my bitcoin is stored safely?
- What is two factor authentication and why is it important?
Where Can I Use Bitcoin?
- Which merchants in South Africa and globally accept bitcoin?
Bitcoin Regulation and Tax
- What should I know about tax (income and capital gain/loss) when trading cryptocurrencies?
- What is the South African Reserve Banks stance on cryptocurrencies?
- What are other regulators saying about cryptocurrency regulation?
Question and Answer
- Submit your top 3 questions after you register and use this opportunity to engage with the presenters and audience