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?


PMGT Gold Token delisted from Kucoin.

28 Aug 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  In what was a bit of interesting piece of news, I saw that the Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) was being delisted this week from Kucoin. I'm a bit unsure as to exactly why, as the annoucement is a bit cryptic... saying that it was according to the...

Exploring FTX exchange

27 Aug 2021 5 minute read 2 comments bengy

  I like to use a number of different exchanges, just to have some degree of choice when for supported chains, token selection and access to certain promotions. Mostly, I will use Binance, Kucoin and MXC as my go to exchanges, but recently Binance...

Immutable X (IMX): Coinlist crowdsale

26 Aug 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Things have been a touch quiet on the crowdsale front for CoinList over summer, before summer there was a huge flurry of sales and most of them are starting to drop into wallets over these coming months... time will tell if any of them will end up...

My first batch of EIP-1559 transactions!

20 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Yesterday, I had seen on Twitter that Metamask had rolled out support for EIP-1559 transactions! This would give the user a touch more control in setting the transaction fees on Ethereum in addition to contributing to the constant deflationary p...

Thoughts about BTC long-term

15 Aug 2021 4 minute read 2 comments bengy

    Unsplash   I was listening to one of the Unchained podcasts the other day where Laura Shin is interviewing one of the Ethereum developers, Justin Drake on the new changes to transaction fees that were introduced in the London hardfork of Et...

Sigh... I guess EIP-1559 is sort of working: aka Stupid NFTs!

9 Aug 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  The most recent hard fork to Ethereum (London) included 5 Improvement Proposals (EIPs). The biggest headline EIP was EIP-1559 which promised to reign in the inflation of ETH by sending a base-fee of transactions to a burn address and removing th...

Kucoin vs Polkastarter?!?!?

4 Aug 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Everyone loves getting in early on IDO/IEOs... Polkastarter has had a pretty damn decent record of getting early access to token launches. However, it has required that you hold a decent amount of POLS to be in with a chance to be whitelisted an...

Staking HOPR on xDAI sidechain

1 Aug 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Privacy protocols and tokens have been of quite a bit of interest to me for quite some time. This might become more and more of a important aspect of cryptocurrencies and blockchains as they evolve into the future. After all, it probably isn't a g...

When you get swamped by the Stoner Cats tidal wave: aka Things to do when ETH gas fees are... (ah forget it...).

30 Jul 2021 3 minute read 1 comment bengy

  Kleros the decentralised jury system which I had written about before, recently annouced a move to the Ethereum sidechain, xDAI. Seeing as I'm already present on xDAI due to the privacy project HOPR, I figured that I may as well migrate my stake i...

My Two OOEs about OpenOcean (DeFi aggregator)

26 Jul 2021 7 minute read 0 comments bengy

  If you are anything like me, aggregators can be a great way to shop around for a decent price without needing to jump onto a million different websites to try and compare products. When I hunting around for travel tickets, electronics, books, en...