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A multi-stakeholder research paper, titled “Indlulamithi South Africa Scenarios 2030” was published which goes into three possible scenarios how South Africa’s future might unfold by 2030. The paper covers three national elections (2019, 2024 and 2029) as well as two...
In a recent discussion about unemployment in South Africa ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on companies to employ young graduates despite their lack of work experience with the following comments: Employers need to understand that for our country to succeed,...
The instructions below are working on OSX and should equally work on any distribution with OpenSSL. From Chrome58 onwards only the SAN (subject alternative name) extension is used to match the domain name and site-certificate (prior to Chrome58 the commonName...
The recent announcement of Sagarmatha establishing a MSP (Multi Sided Platform) as a “first” in South Africa has drawn a large amount of criticism from people in the know. Novices (such as the Black Consumer Council) slated MSP as a...
Despite SSL being widely used, Java mutual SSL authentication (also referred to as 2-way SSL authentication or certificate based authentication) is a fairly simple implementation when understanding the key concepts of how mutual SSL authentication works. Today I noticed that...
If you do not know what a Ledger Nano S is, read my review here first – it is a great secure device to store all your crypto-currency. All ECR-20 tokens are supported: Check https://etherscan.io/tokens to see which tokens are supported. The...
It all started of with hungry BitcoinTalk member laszlo wanting two pizzas at 12:35am on 18th May 2010: This turned then promptly in perhaps the very first semi-online crypto-currency e-commerce payment where a forum user offered to order two pizza’s...
The dump-and-pump was run against $ICN on Binance. It started at 3pm GMT and lasted 4 minutes during which time ICN turned for some a profit of $1,2 per coin (this equated $350 profit per ETH invested): IMPORTANT warning: As appealing...
🚀 Update 2020-01-01: I have started trading using Gunbot (a crypto bot) – you will find more information here: https://github.com/magicdude4eva/docker-gunbot Coinbase is not available to South Africans and Germans (and is only supported for these countries): Coinbase changed their TOS in 2017...
Update 26/12/2017: I have posted a detailed guide on how to transfer ETH/BTC from Coinbase into Binance. Although I live in South Africa, I avoid the local exchanges and trading platforms (such as Luno) as you will not just exposed...
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