With the South African (Rand) currency slowly degrading the time has come to protect your wealth by diversifying into other financial vehicles. In the past, mining for Bitcoin has slowly grown to become a meaningful player in the new world. Bitcoin is facing opposition in it's market with emerging Cryptocurrencies and some are showing tremendous growth. Be it as it may, Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency is definitely an infancy financial instrument that is very much still in its "Wild West" scenario but we all know how the "Wild West" panned out. :: Think Texas and California, California’s GDP is more than half of the US’s wealth - very much like our own countries history comparative to Africa.