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?


Thoughts on Stader (SD) Coinlist Crowdsale

15 Jan 2022 6 minute read 4 comments bengy

Stader Coinlist Crowdsale   Well, this upcoming CoinList crowdsale from the Stader project will be an interesting one for me.... and by interesting, I hope that it will be completely trouble free! It will be the first CoinList sale that I will be ta...

Claiming Moonriver (GLMR) Crowdloan Rewards (aka: Where the @#$@#%@^% are my GLMR!)

13 Jan 2022 4 minute read 2 comments bengy

    Unsplash   Yesterday, Moonriver announced that the Glimmer (GLMR) token transfers and staking were live for the Moonriver network. This made it the first of the parachain auction slots from the first round to be up and running. This wasn't t...

Thoughts on the next Binance Launchpad: League of Kingdoms (LOKA)

12 Jan 2022 6 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Another month, another Binance Launchpad! Although other exchanges such as Kucoin, FTX, MXC and Gate.io hold their own versions of early retail access to crypto token projects, I've had the best success and return with the Binance and CoinList ver...

Playing around with Jet NFTs

7 Jan 2022 6 minute read 1 comment bengy

  JetCoin is one in a long list of NFT projects that have launched in the last year. Whilst many of the NFT projects have been focussed on single pieces of digital artworks or creations, JetCoin is aiming to build out a complete ecosystem of fan b...

Personal Responsibility Cuts Two Ways!

5 Jan 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  In a crazy bull market... and even more so in the hyper-macho crypto space, there are quite a number of people who have a high appetite for risk. Which is all fine and good (I'm not really one of those...), and there are equally almost as many o...

Crypto Accounting Setup Complete!

4 Jan 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy

    Unsplash   There is no nice way to say this... but crypto accounting in Australia (and other Capital Gains Tax jurisdictions) is politely described as poop... or as a pain in the arse. Capital Gains requires a crapload more tracking of exact...

Another Two Polkadot Crowdloan Contenders!

3 Jan 2022 3 minute read 1 comment bengy

  In what was a pretty much predictable outcome, Efinity (EFI) snagged the first of the next batch of 5 parachain slots auctions. However, from this point onwards... I'm a little less certain as to who will win the coveted parachain slots. That sa...

Robin Hood and Maid Marion

31 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Another two silver coins that I picked up before leaving the Netherlands! This time it is from the a new 2021 collection from the British Mint that features the characters of Robin Hood and his gang of wealth distributers! The first in the colle...

Fighting Jet-Lag with Crypto Accounting!

30 Dec 2021 5 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Long haul flights are never fun... however, the actual trip itself is not the worst of it. The dreaded jet-lag is, for me, the most terrible part. The part where you are wide awake in the middle of the night and deadly exhausted in the middle of...

Crypto Wishes for Christmas!

25 Dec 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Unsplash   (Excuses for the future tense... I'm writing this on the evening before Christmas whilst waiting for the girls to fall asleep, and I'm not going to really sit around making a post tomorrow!) Ahhhh... tomorrow will be a strange Christm...