{"id":209819,"date":"2017-11-09T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=209819"},"modified":"2017-11-09T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T06:28:19","slug":"luno-now-supports-ethereum-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/209819\/luno-now-supports-ethereum-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Luno now supports Ethereum in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin exchange and online wallet platform, Luno, has announced that it has added support for Ethereum &#8211; the second-largest digital currency after Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Customers from over 40 countries, including South Africa, can now easily buy and sell digital currencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) using the Luno wallet, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is core to our beliefs that decentralised digital currency will form the basis of the future of finance\u201d said Marcus Swanepoel, co-founder and CEO at Luno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission at Luno is to bring digital currencies to everyone, everywhere. It is our view that we will end up with a multi-digital currency world and Ethereum is aligned with this view\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows the company&#8217;s recent R9 million Series B announcement and expansion into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Balderton Capital led the round\u00a0which followed a R60 million Series A funding round led by Naspers.<\/p>\n<p>Luno said the funding would be used for product refinement and development, and global expansion. The company added it will be hiring in London, Singapore, and Cape Town.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/209099\/bitcoin-is-more-valuable-than-the-rand-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitcoin is more valuable than the rand: developer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin exchange and online wallet platform, Luno, has announced that it has added support for Ethereum &#8211; the second-largest digital currency after Bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26,12218],"class_list":["post-209819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline","tag-luno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209823,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209819\/revisions\/209823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}