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NowNow raises $13M seed, plans to scale its ecosystem of financial products across Africa

TechCrunch

“We’re on track to transact a GMV of about $5 billion by the end of this year across all platforms,” Berry added. Angola is one of those places where we found that the digital payment space is pretty far behind and we might launch there over the next month.

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Proton VPN review 2025: A nonprofit service with premium performance

Engadget

We had high hopes for Proton here because of its VPN Accelerator technology, which runs VPN communications across several parallel tracks to process everything faster. Proton VPN successfully masked our real IP address, even on a virtual location in Angola. It didn't disappoint — for the most part. We'll cover them in that order.

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Kuwait cracks down on crypto miners to cut down on electricity usage

Engadget

Kosovo outlawed the practice back in 2022 and Angola did the same in 2024. Alex de Vries-Gao, founder of a research project that tracks crypto energy use, told Reuters that "it only takes a very small share of the total bitcoin mining network to have a significant impact on the relatively small total electricity consumption of Kuwait."

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