While most of us have been focused on Covid-19, whichever country we are in, a quiet revolution has been happening in Africa, according to a report by Arcane Research and Luno, Cointelegraph reports.

T...he study analysed Google searched ‘Bitcoin’ and found that Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya were amongst the Top 10 countries for crypto-related searches.
It goes on to say that Africa is “one of, if not the most promising region for the adoption of cryptocurrencies,” in part because adoption so far has been low, but interest is high and growing.

The continent is promising, because it has a distinct combination of “a young population, frequent monetary crises and currency failures, large unbanked or underbanked populations, and expensive means of payment.”
In terms of numbers, Nigeria has for some time dominated cryptocurrency trade volume, but it emerges that South Africa has the highest percent of cryptocurrency ownership or use among internet users in Africa with 13%, followed by Nigeria with 11%. Indeed, worldwide, South Africa ranks fifth in the world for cryptocurrency adoption.

The current health crisis, and the many restrictions imposed, appears to have encouraged South Africans to head towards Bitcoin. In the last week, the country has posted “its second-strongest weekly volume on peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Localbitcoins, with nearly $1.65 million worth of BTC changing hands.” It surged to the extent that its P2P knocked Kenya out of its crypto trade position.

P2P in Nigeria is also showing record highs, achieving $9.2 million in combined weekly trade, while Kenya has also seen a spike in Localbitcoins trade between BTC and the Kenyan shilling producing its second-strongest week on record for the third consecutive time. Morocco and Egypt have also reported record trade activity.

For the first time ever, P2P volume in sub-Saharan Africa has out-performed Latin America, so it’s definitely a continent with plenty of crypto confidence.

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Recently, Cointelegraph reported that Coinbase, the major crypto exchange, has come under fire “for its alleged efforts to sell crypto surveillance services to both the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and ...the Internal Revenue Service.”

Coinbase has responded by saying, “the company’s analytics services do not share any personally identifiable data with law enforcement,” and that it sources all data from publicly available information.

Some dispute Coinbase’s claims, and a source who worked in compliance with crypto exchanges revealed “that multiple government entities have been actively monitoring users across nearly every centralized exchange and custodial crypto service provider for years.” The anonymous source also claimed that this activity goes back to the early days of Bitcoin, and that after the Mt Gox incident, it increased and intensified.

The source told Cointelegraph: “I’ve worked for crypto exchanges, bitcoin ATM companies, general crypto services providers, and more. They all engage in surveillance practices. They have no choice.”
They also explained, “that the U.S. government’s favored methodology is called a Suspicious Activity Report, or SAR. While SARs are common in most money transmission businesses, crypto SARs appear to operate under different standards.” They said: “In traditional institutions, a transaction needs to meet certain criteria in most cases to be deemed suspicious. That’s not really true for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies though. As far as the government is concerned, the threshold of ‘suspicious’ is met as soon as cryptocurrency is involved.”

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