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?


Wheeee! This shouldn't be so much fun....

4 Dec 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   Well.... of course, it still stings a bit to see the whole crypto market splatter between 20-50 percent overnight! However, I'm a boring old long term "investor", and I have been diligently taking profits as certain price or portf...

UMEE Crowdsale (Coinlist)

30 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Ooops, somehow I got distracted and forgot to write about this upcoming EMEE CoinList crowdsale... it is past the registration time already (apologies for that), but the sale is still incoming... so, I thought I would still write about the UMEE cr...

Unexpected New Social Media Futures Market!

26 Nov 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Trading futures is pretty risky business. Futures are a derivative market where you trade the contract to buy or sell the underlying asset at a future date at a certain price. Depending on the type of market, this can be an actual date and the pri...

Testing the Crypto.com Missions and Mystery Boxes

23 Nov 2021 5 minute read 17 comments bengy

Crypto.com (CRO) Mystery Boxes   One of the greatest contrasts between the Eastern-style exchanges (such as Binance, Kucoin, Huobi, MXC and Gate.io) and the Western-style exchanges (such as FTX, CoinList and Coinbase) has been gamification of tradin...

Lessons Learnt from the Genopets (GENE) MXC Launchpad

19 Nov 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Phew... it has been a busy week or two with preparing with all the IEOs that seemed to batch themselves together! It has been a fun time preparing them all, making sure that everything was set and ready to go... assets placed and ready to just com...

Preparing the Huobi Primelist (NGL Crowdsale)

18 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Huobi Primlist (NGL)   As I mentioned in yesterday's post, it is a busy week or two for exchange crowdsales (IEOs) with events from Binance, MXC, and Kucoin. These events are an easy way to make a nice profit off the huge volatility at the mark...

Preparing the next MXC Launchpad (Genopets)

17 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  It is a bit of a busy week for CEX Launchpads this week! Last week was a CoinList two round crowdsale of Guild of Guardians (GOG), a Kucoin Burning Drop, and then a Binance Launchpad of the fan token PORTO... plus three concurrent Binance Launchpo...

Comparing Smart Contract Blockchain Designs

13 Nov 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   So, this past year and coming year has been a big one for smart contract platforms. First the DeFi craze... Followed by the NFT craze... And finally the Play to Earn one that we are in the middle of. All of these use cases require...

Parachain choices (DOT Crowdloans): My initial thoughts

12 Nov 2021 8 minute read 0 comments bengy

Polkadot Parachain Crowdloans   Well... one of the most hotly anticipated events of the crypto year is now upon us... the first rounds of parachain auctions for the Polkadot (DOT) ecosystem. Polkadot (and the testnet Kusama) are modular-type ne...

Airdrop entitlement (and some reminders)

11 Nov 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   Airdrop chasing... we've all done it, so there is no shame there. However, if you are looking for quality airdrops, many of them are now done as retrospective airdrops for past use/support of a protocol. This is in stark contrast...