Shower thoughts about subjects both great and small! Crypto, Society, Governance... What does it mean for Ponies to have Cutie Marks?
24 Dec 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
... and here we are with the last of the CoinList crowdsales for the year. This year saw quite a number of projects conduct their first public offerings on CoinList and it although all of them are decent multiples up on the purchase prices, time w...
23 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
As I've mentioned previously... I've spent some of my last days in Netherlands purchasing a few last silver pieces from sellers that I trust on Ebay and Marktplaats. It takes years and several transactions before you start to form a good trust b...
21 Dec 2021 4 minute read 2 comments bengy
I've only ever used a Bitcoin ATM a single time just to do some research for a thing that I was writing... that was a few years ago, and it felt like the equivalent of buying pornography in a public space. First of all, I had to google up some l...
20 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
So... in the midst of all the packing, I came across this batch of OG NFTs! Well... these and a few more. For those who don't remember, the Austrian Post office is pretty cool with trying out new things... they have embroidered stamps and stamps...
18 Dec 2021 6 minute read 1 comment bengy
So, the first round of 5 Polkadot parachain leases have now been finalised in the auctions over the last few weeks... which means that we start to get into the really interesting projects, as the heavyweights have generally filled the first five...
16 Dec 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Well, the last of my stablecoin reserves were spent in the last two days.... I figured that with such a huge tumble, it was time to complete the purchase of tokens that I have had my eyes on. Now, I'm sort of hoping that crypto pr...
11 Dec 2021 4 minute read 3 comments bengy
Like most people, I've been putting off quite a number of things on the Ethereum main-net until gas fees settled down a little bit. Yesterday, the prices started to reach down into the 60-70 gwei zone and I managed to get some of Ethereum backlo...
9 Dec 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
Phew... if anything points to the fact that we are still in a bit of hype phase for cryptocurrencies, it is the steady flow of IEOs that are being put out by Binance, MXC, and Gate.io. Of course, the torrent from earlier months has dropped down to...
6 Dec 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy
Well... it takes some guts (or some incredibly bad timing) to try a token launch in the middle of a crypto downturn... but here we are with the latest Binance Launchpad and the launch of the Voxies turn-based RPG game token! As always, I enjoy tak...
5 Dec 2021 4 minute read 7 comments bengy
Ahhhhh.... I couldn't help it! There were a few more silver pieces that I had seen on Marktplaats (a Dutch second-hand website) that I just couldn't resist snatching up in our dying days in Europe. Partly, this was due to wanting to get s...
