Cryptocurrency is in ascendancy, just ask Jay Z and Akon Jay Z and Akon get involved with digital currency WITH BITCOIN hitting the $50,000 per coin mark this week many who dismissed the news that rapper and businessman Jay Z had partnered with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to launch a Bitcoin Development Fund focused on Africa and India may now be having another look at just what the American is getting involved in. Like it or not digital currency is here to stay and the most famous of the 8000 digital coins available sent it’s loyal investors a ‘BIT’ loopy when it touched (albeit for a brief second) the historical valuation mark.