Shower thoughts about subjects both great and small! Crypto, Society, Governance... What does it mean for Ponies to have Cutie Marks?
13 Apr 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Keeping up with crypto accounting is still a bit of a nightmare when you have accounts across a number of exchange. There isn't really a standard for reporting and exporting CSVs... and APIs mostly work... except when they don't, or when they mi...
31 Mar 2022 4 minute read 1 comment bengy
Sigh.... the day had come when I would need to start upgrading through the various tiers of crypto accounting software. I remember back fondly to the days of crypto accounting in the Netherlands, where we only needed to do a single yearly snapshot...
28 Mar 2022 3 minute read 12 comments bengy
Sigh... I had let my interest in the Polkadot parachain auctions lapse a bit over the last month or so... there was the move to Australia and setting up in a new place, and that took quite a bit of time and brain-space. However, as I've mentioned...
27 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
One of the things about crypto-governance tokens is the fact that they are supposed to be used to govern... and not just sit around being staked as passive income for a number go up sell event. You know... the hint in the name of the type of the...
23 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
If you have been following me for a little bit, you will know that I'm a huge fan of the CoinList crowdsales. It can be fiendishly difficult to get a purchase spot if you haven't had some prior history with CoinList (or enough money to splash ar...
22 Mar 2022 5 minute read 2 comments bengy
It is starting to seem that (at least in the short to medium term future) we are going to have a multi-chain crypto ecosystem. This means that we are going to need some trust-less bridges across networks to be able to port tokens and liquidity a...
13 Mar 2022 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
I love these days and weekends when all the hype has gone away and Ethereum main-net fees are manageable again! Today, I was seeing blocks with gas fees ranging from 8 to 20 gwei... which is something that I haven't seen since my first forays on...
12 Mar 2022 5 minute read 0 comments bengy
Coinlist: TRIBL Crowdsale Now that we have moved to Australia, the CoinList crowdsales are at poop times in the middle of the night or early morning. That means that I'm setting alarms in the middle of the night to be ready for the queue. Just rec...
10 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Unsplash In the last few months, I've had to deal with banks and fiat transfers a bit more than I usually do. This is a result of selling up a house and doing lots of costs involved in moving from one side of the planet to the...
6 Mar 2022 4 minute read 8 comments bengy
Cosmos Unsplash A while back, I had been interested in layer-0 blockchains. These are the foundation chains that allow different Layer 1 chains to communicate and share assets... and of course, the two leading projects at the time were...
