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?


Songbird (Flare Networks testnet) is live

18 Sep 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

  So, if you remember back a year or two (or more?)... Ripple (XRP) holders were asked to make a quick memo on their public facing accounts (via XUMM or otherwise) to attach a Ethereum address in preparation for a Flare airdrop sometime in the dista...

Are we still building a better future?

17 Sep 2021 3 minute read 4 comments bengy

    Unsplash   By now, I guess most people will have heard of the scandal at OpenSea. If you didn't, this is the brief rundown... OpenSea is the leading platform for NFTs on Ethereum... and arguably the leading platform full-stop. Their Head of...

Retrospective Thales airdrop (Things to do when ETH gas fees are... not terrible).

16 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Thales airdrop for SNX stakers   Today on the Synthetix (SNX) Discord there was a long awaited announcement of a retrospective airdrop of the THALES token for SNX stakers. This has been quite some time in the making as Synthetix has started spi...

L2 withdrawals from CEXs (Crypto.com)

15 Sep 2021 3 minute read 3 comments bengy

    Unsplash   One of the little hidden problems with Centralised Exchanges (CEXs) is the fact that withdrawal fees can be a bit of a mixed back and generally not something that one really takes into account until the moment that you actually tr...

More thinking about Bitcoin security in the long term

14 Sep 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   NOTE: Let's get this out of the way for any incoming keyboard warriors... I'm a fan of both Bitcoin and Ethereum. I can be a fan, whilst wanting to be introspective and learning to improve... that doesn't make me anti-anything! (...

Enough is enough... House selling.

9 Sep 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   So, the viewings for our house finally finished on Monday this week after several days of open house and individual appointments. It is weird to have people traipsing through our house (and not taking their shoes off...) whilst we...

Resetting the last Sell trigger....

8 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   I try to be quite disciplined about investing in crypto ever since I stumbled into it on a friend's suggestion. I tend to look out for long term plays and I'm a pretty boring sort of investor. My first goal after starting was to m...

Braintrust Crowd Sale (Coinlist)

5 Sep 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy

Braintrust - Coinlist   Wow, this particular CoinList crowdsale came out a bit fast with a very short lead in time. A maximum of about 2 weeks between annoucement and registration deadline and the actual sale! So, this is a bit of an interestin...

Crypto Tax Accounting: Cointracking

1 Sep 2021 6 minute read 2 comments bengy

Crypto Tax Accounting: Cointracking   Crypto accounting is a bit of a nightmare at the moment. Tools to track transactions are a bit janky at best but I have found that Cointracking has been the best one that I've used so far. Unlike other port...

KuCoin Learn and Earn (aka Rewards): First Experiences and Thoughts.

30 Aug 2021 3 minute read 10 comments bengy

KuCoin Mobile App   A number of exchanges have already had a "Learn and Earn" type of marketing campaign going already to entice newcomers to crypto to their platforms, or even just to snipe off a few existing customers of competing platforms....