Recent content by Gray1

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    Any advantage to buying self-custody BTC overseas using ADA & USD?

    Is there any advantage to using my R1m annual allowance to buy USD and purchase BTC overseas, and move the BTC into self-custody? I pay tax in ZAR. I keep ZAR-BTC and USD-BTC in separate addresses, to track ZARUSD currency fluctuations if I ever sell. My feeling is to buy as much BTC overseas...
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    Huge increase in Luno's trading fees starting 8 June.

    Thanks @Sensorei. I was mystified by a first-ever "Trading Fee" today on Luno's exchange. I tried chatting to an agent, who was completely clueless and kept telling me about transactions fees on the blockchain. The agent obviously didn't know about the new trading fees. Useless customer support...
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    Hedge funds drawn to crypto's next Big Short after FTX reveals cracks

    USDC / Coinbase / Circle registered in the US seems safer than USDT / Bitfinex / Tether registered in the British Virgin Islands. But who knows - nothing would surprise me. There are crooks everywhere.
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    Binance Is Trying to Calm Investors, but Its Finances Remain a Mystery

    I don't think so. Bitcoin will be fine. The scamsters, grifters, frauds, ponzis who are left after FTX will be flushed away, and good riddance. Tether is just too opaque not to be fraudulent.
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    Binance Is Trying to Calm Investors, but Its Finances Remain a Mystery

    USDT and Binance are next to implode it seems. There's just too much smoke for there not to be a fire. For safety, if I had assets on Binance, I'd remove them and close all positions asap until the contagion subsides.
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    Is Takealot's CT warehouse permanently closed for collections?

    Thanks all for the replies.
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    Is Takealot's CT warehouse permanently closed for collections?

    Anyone know why one can't select Takealot's warehouse in Montague Gardens for collections any longer? The closest collection point will cost an additional R30 to collect.
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    Vodacom increasing prices on 1 April?

    Don't be surprised if you keep getting the original SMS despite opting out. I opted out on 1 March, got the confirmation, but still got another "...to opt out..." SMS this morning.
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    Vodacom increasing prices on 1 April?

    Vodacom is a b/s company: 1. using opt out sales, which is illegal 2. sending the same SMS to customers who have already opted out of the extra R15/month 3. using scare tactics to force you to reconsider. In my experience, cellphone networks mostly write off remaining contracts if the subscriber...
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    USD bitcoin purchases from SA?

    Thanks, Etana / Kraken seems to be the way to go with USD funding from SA.
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    USD bitcoin purchases from SA?

    I have an FNB USD Global account. Luno won't accept USD purchases, everything has to be in ZAR. I don't want to "repatriate" USD (converting to ZAR) that I've already exporting using my annual allowance. Does anyone know of, and recommend, a way of using an SA-based USD account to buy/sell...
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    ADSL and Telkom

    No, it's not true. Telkom just offered me a 2-year ADSL contract.
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