Wow what an impresive CV, an here im am 5 days in from my first ever crypto and blockchain experience. Our world differ like night and day, just starting my ride and still so uncertian in which directions I should head. I hope you find your place and share some of that vast knowledge you have with us, following you.
@freetissues, thank you for introducing yourself. I am new to Steemit but know Crypto like the back of my hand. Please feel free to hit me up for anything. If I can not help you, I know someone of good character and integrity that can, so please make sure to stop by again.
Thank you and most definitely will take up that offer. My first hurdle I believe is to setup that bitcoin wallet and then some wallets on an exchange. Those are all arbitrary. My biggest problem is still how to deal with these crytos here in South Africa where the last transaction needs to happen for me to get it out finally and turn it into real cash for use.... not that i really want to turn anything into this useless currency we call Rands
@freetissues, have you looked to see how large a presence in your area 'LocalBitcoins' has? I just did a quick look and it appears on the sell side Bitcoin is selling at 36660.6 ZAR I checked 'Paxful' and did not see anything in your area which means you could become that presence. There is also 'Wirex' and 'CoinsBank' which have debit cards. I am starting a project on you continent in Kenya with M-Pesa which will extend to you but we are talking 6 months before a product to convert their Air Time to Fiat/Bitcoin or its own Tokenized Currency would be ready to Market. As far as wallets I would not mess around. Get yourself a Safe/Secure Hardware wallet like 'Trezor' 'Keepkey' or the new 'Ledger' Wallets. Best safe than sorry. My apologies for taking so long to notice this. I want to be able to help people more promptly than this. If you need anything further let me know or I can give you my Skype. Also if you become at some point interested in any Crypto Projects let me know. I usually have 2-3 active ones and can always use help and they usually pay out in the projects own tokens. If you have a project that interests you that I am not involved in still let me know because I can talk to the developer and get you on board at least as a volunteer if that interests you. I volunteered on some extremely successful projects over the years and is how I learned everything plus developed my network of reliable trustworthy contacts. Best ~jack