GD – IT Consulting

The power of a DAO in real time (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation)

In a startup, the only people who really know the terms of an equity deal would be the two or three co-founders and the funds providing the capital. The precise terms may even be forever buried in non-disclosure agreements.

Naturally, the key tradeoff here is time. With just a few heads making decisions, plans can move quickly.

But if you consider the sheer size of a DAO community, then the process seems to be still pretty fast. Perhaps more importantly, everyone also has an opportunity to participate transparently.

Amazon Web Services – why to set a budget thresold and how

Note: cloud environment is charging by second / hour When exploring the relevant AWS services, if one wants to employ an IT architecture that is fit for purpose and fit for use, inevitably a solution architect tries different alternatives until the final solution architecture is found for the given business goal. For example, when dimensioningContinue reading “Amazon Web Services – why to set a budget thresold and how”

Amazon Web Services – don’t do API keys input into an EC2 instance

API keys = API Key + API Secret Key Never enter your IAM API keys into your EC2 instance. Unless you are the single user in that EC2 instance. If not, it’s like not doing yourself a favor, on the contrary. Some words briefly about the definition of what is an EC2 instance: EC2 instanceContinue reading “Amazon Web Services – don’t do API keys input into an EC2 instance”

Python code to place trades with Liquid.com (a Japan) exchange – Part 3

In the present article I am continuing the construction of a trading bot in Python that I am suggesting is able to work 24/7 and to bring a positive result consistently. The goal is to implement no manual trades placed with the crypto-exchange Liquid.com (eventually manual trades will be only on exceptional basis i.e. justContinue reading “Python code to place trades with Liquid.com (a Japan) exchange – Part 3”

Python code to place trades with Liquid.com (a Japan) exchange – Part 2

In this article (continued from this one) I am going to play with Python a little bit. So, I will check whether a Python library installed previously (ccxt) is fit for purpose. I need to make some GET requests to Liquid.com’s API in order to retrieve some data and send some POST requests to placeContinue reading “Python code to place trades with Liquid.com (a Japan) exchange – Part 2”

Python code to place trades with Liquid.com (a Japan) exchange

I wanted to start a trading experience using automation in Python, just for fun and to see if I suck at trading or I gain something. Normally, trading in cryptocurrencies is a high risk activity, but I have decided I can throw a couple thousands EURO in this experiment. Who knows, maybe I am goodContinue reading “Python code to place trades with Liquid.com (a Japan) exchange”

Information Security Monitoring for companies rendering essential services is going to be closely watched by Romanian State

Deadline to submit the file to Romanian relevant authority is 17 December 2020. It’s for companies in the industries offering essential services (mainly energy utilities, banking, payments services, etc) Legal background: Law 362/2018 Why deadline is 17 December 2020? Because all related legal acts / governmental orders and so on have been culminated with HGContinue reading “Information Security Monitoring for companies rendering essential services is going to be closely watched by Romanian State”

Despre Directoratul Național de Securitate Cibernetică – cîteva scăpări

Originally posted on ADRIAN B. MUNTEANU:
Scriu cele ce urmează după ce am lecturat de 3 ori propunerea de OG privind înființarea Directoratului Național de Securitate Cibernetică și pentru modificarea și completarea unor acte normative (la această oră nu știu dacă a fost aprobabtă). Am rezonat de prima dată de cînd am citit despre această…

A new digital assets exchange

Gets funding in a non-usual way An IPO. Nothing new. Business: provides services in trading digital assets. It was done already such a business. Amount: 117 millions US dollars. It was done before, such amount is not unachievable. So what is new? SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)-approved IPO is the first of its kind: investorsContinue reading “A new digital assets exchange”

Web scraping. Get products prices of competition from their website. How to achieve the goal using a trendy programming language (i.e. Python) in 20 lines of code (part 1)

Web scraping is when one wants to copy the content of a web page (or targeted parts of an entire site) and this is done automatically by a programmed robot (or a pre-programmed application). I use Python (and an open source library) to achieve successfully potentially any web scraping task. An interesting use of webContinue reading “Web scraping. Get products prices of competition from their website. How to achieve the goal using a trendy programming language (i.e. Python) in 20 lines of code (part 1)”