Idle Musings
Idle Musings

Idle Musings

Shower thoughts about subjects both great and small! Crypto, Society, Governance... What does it mean for Ponies to have Cutie Marks?


Perfect Time to Plan for Bull Markets

19 Jun 2022 4 minute read 6 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Well... now that we are in the midst of a sea of red, and liquidations and collapses all around.... this is actually a really good time to plan ahead to set targets for what you might consider to be acceptable "take-pr...

While the Whales are hunting....

14 Jun 2022 5 minute read 6 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Well well, it has been a bit of an entertaining week all around. Obviously, some of us tend to be a bit focussed on the comings and goings of crypto-land... and that has certainly been quite interesting. However, if we...

The Low Tide is Here

10 Jun 2022 4 minute read 4 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   I've been a pretty boring sort of crypto investor... I am really much more interested in infrastructure sorts of things... you know, the sorts of things that are completely difficult to become hyped about... and the pr...

Crypto Accounting is a Poop!

30 May 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Sigh... I really need to be much more disciplined with the crypto accounting not that I'm in a country with a capital gains taxation system for cryptocurrencies. It really makes everything quite a great deal more onero...

Take Cover and Snipe!

12 May 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   Phew... what a rollercoaster couple of days, and I guess the worst of it is still to come as the secondary effects of the LUNA/UST cataclysm start to become known. Well, let us hope that there aren't too many crypto tr...

Exploring another privacy L2 on Ethereum (Zksync)

9 May 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  I've been harping on about privacy in crypto for quite some time, and it has been one of the things that I've been looking out for over the last couple of years... with privacy first blockchains, privacy L2s and privacy as a service on the ATOM/...

Playing around on Aztec Network (Ethereum Privacy)

1 May 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy

  I've mentioned it quite a bit, but one of the missing infrastructure pieces for cryptocurrencies and blockchains is privacy. Many of the existing blockchains have been developed with openness and transparency first and foremost... but these are...

Decentralised Investment Banking (ONDO): Coinlist Crowdsale

29 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Well well... it has been quite some time since we have seen a CoinList crowdsale! And this next one in the middle of May is quite an interesting one as well.. Now, normally, I'm more interested in the back-end stuff and the infrastructure sorts of...

A new model of Airdropping: Optimistic Ethereum

27 Apr 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  For anyone who has been in crypto for a while, airdrops are a bit of a necessary evil. Initially, they were seen as a way to incentivise and bootstrap a community... and as people soon found out, human nature is what it is, and the "community" c...

"Me Too" Projects

18 Apr 2022 3 minute read 4 comments bengy

Unsplash   With the slightly unexpected (to me...) runaway hit of the Binance Launchpad project Stepn (GMT), we are now into the part of the cycle where some of the copy-paste derivative projects on different chains have started to rear their p...