Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and Roc Nation founder Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday. The duo is putting 500 bitcoin, which is currently worth $23.6 million, in the endowment called ₿trust. The fund will be set up as a blind irrevocable trust,...
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About two days ago, I read a Business Insider article that wrote about government gazetting the new national minimum wage which is now R21.69 per hour. This is an increase of 4.5% from last year. More specifically, the same article mentioned the minimum wage of domestic workers increased from R15.57 per hour to R19.09, a hike...