Month: March 2021

Neil White is LSD OPEN’s technical director and is often involved in the internal infrastructure part of the company. Recently, he ran into a particularly scary problem with one of our cloud instances and the Ethereum validators running in it.

Red alert emails flying around, being completely locked out of the environment and the information contained on it – essentially everything was on fire. After following the recommended appeal routes and not gaining any headway whatsover, Neil came up with a plan to move the infrastructure from one cloud provider environment to another.

This is a particularly scary problem to deal with because of the lack of access you have to your environment and speaks to cloud vendor lock-in a bit as well. What do you do when you get locked out of your own cloud platform?

Read the full post and what Neil did to resolve the issue using tools like Terraform on his Medium page.

LSD OPEN was recently featured in a TechCentral piece written by editor Duncan McLeod, on leadership’s decision to bring Bitcoin onto our books. Duncan takes a look at the decision and writes about the process that the company undertook to invest using BitFund.

Read the full article on the TechCentral website

Our vision at LSD is to make the world more OPEN. We work and play with some of the best people, who we really care for. LSD recently acquired Bitcoin for our corporate balance sheet.

This is great for the company, but I really want to ensure that our people also have some crypto exposure, as I believe in the decentralized OPEN technology, the value it creates, and in the future i really believe it can create long term wealth. Many of our people already have significant crypto assets and holdings, but there are also many that dont. Often it is seen as a technical barrier and people are unsure where to start. To this end, all employees of LSD will be asked to create a Bitfund account and select a portfolio. LSD will do a once off deposit of R1400.00 (the US stimulus is $1400. heh) for each person (current and future). These accounts will be in their own names and are free to be withdrawn at any time (I really recommend you just hodl).

It’s a small amount, but I believe if you want to get people interested or excited about something (the up and down), get them invested, and over time, i’m very convinced even a small amount today will be a significant asset in future.