About this episode

The episode discusses South Africa's draft capital flow regulations and their implications for Bitcoin and users.

They don’t need to pass a new law to change your life, they can update “regulations” and call it a day. We sit down to unpack South Africa’s draft capital flow regulations from Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank, why the public comment window matters, and why the process feels like it dodges real democratic accountability. We get specific about what’s being proposed and what it could mean for Bitcoin self-custody, peer-to-peer payments and everyday users who are not trying to “break...

People in this episode

Host: Gavin

Topics covered

• capital controls
• Bitcoin
• regulations
• democratic accountability
• self-custody
• peer-to-peer payments

Keywords

• capital controls
• Bitcoin
• South Africa
• regulations
• self-custody
• peer-to-peer payments

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: South African Reserve Bank, Treasury

Products: Bitcoin

Places: South Africa

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