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 […]

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 […]

Seagyn Davis joined LSD OPEN’s technical team in 2021 and contribution has already been felt. Seagyn also has his own blog on which he publishes mostly technical pieces, which we’ll feature here on the LSD People Blog from time to time. Here’s an excerpt from the post, and you can read more on his blog […]

On the 4th January the LSD OPEN (LSD) board approved a spend of reserve capital, an initial 1M ZAR bitcoin purchase and another 1M ZAR purchase over the following two weeks for an average price of R510,000 per bitcoin. We worked with Bitfund (http://bitfund.co.za) to acquire and safely hold our position. Our vision is to […]

If you are surprised after reading that headline, you are not alone. This is big industry news, and I personally think there will be a couple of mixed feelings about this one. Similar to the IBM/Red Hat acquisition, people all over are wondering what they can expect from this change. Let’s unpack the story together […]