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?


Exploring SwapSpace (Exchange Aggregator)

25 Jul 2021 6 minute read 4 comments bengy

  Aggregators on the internet have made our lives easier by placing all the various shopping and purchase options all in one place for easy comparison. One of the aggregators that I use quite often in my daily life is Skyscanner, which I use to book...

Oops, making a little profit from being a stupid-head...

24 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Binance has some pretty nice projects on its Launchpad offerings, perhaps one that you have heard of recently is the the blockchain based game Axie Infinity. Back then the participation was by lottery, and it was pretty cool if you managed to get...

Ethereum Eagle Project (EGL) Genesis - Community influencing of Eth gas prices (Coinlist stakedrop)

23 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  CoinList is better known for its early access token sales of vetted crypto projects... which many of which have been quite successful, and are now trading at multiples of the original launch price. So, I've had to say that I've been pretty happy w...

Moonpots - SafePal WHO (this looks familiar...)

22 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

Moonpots. CAKE POOL   SafePal is a hardware and software wallet provider that has been backed and launched by Binance last year (or was it the year before? Time is hard to keep track of these days!). Part of the appeal of holding the SafePal ut...

Staking STAKE and messing around on xDai (Things to do when ETH gas fees are low!).

19 Jul 2021 5 minute read 2 comments bengy

  I've been following the privacy protocol HOPR since it launched earlier in the year. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to set up a node or anything like that in the test phases, so I missed out on the initial distribution and purchase. Howev...

Claiming Shapeshift (FOX) tokens without ETH

15 Jul 2021 3 minute read 1 comment bengy

  Wow, it was a bit of a busy day yesterday! First Uniswap makes a beach-head on the Optimistic Ethereum Layer 2, and then Shapeshift announces that it is going to dissolve its corporate structure and go full decentralised, distributing all the re...

Uniswap comes to Optimism!!!!!!

14 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   So, not long ago (in the last day), Uniswap launched an alpha version on Optimistic Ethereum (OE)... now, why is this so exciting for me? Well, a number of things... Synthetix has been on the Layer 2 for quite a few months now, an...

Staking Iluvium (ILV): Things to do when ETH gas fees are low!

11 Jul 2021 3 minute read 3 comments bengy

  So, another weekend, another chance to do stuff on the Ethereum mainnet with the nice low gas fees. I'm still really sure why they are back to decent levels, but it appears that most of the DeFi mania has gone to other places... which makes it a n...

Idle thoughts about Axies and crypto in general.

10 Jul 2021 4 minute read 1 comment bengy

    Unsplash   So, this is a bit of rambling post about cryptocurrencies in general... brought about by the recent latest hype project of Axie Infinity. Now, I don't have anything against Axie Infinity (or crypto) at all, I think it is great tha...

Katana: A satisfying hardware Kickstarter investment!

8 Jul 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

  I have backed quite a number of projects on Kickstarter, and over time, I've come to realise that that backing hardware based projects is the most risky of the projects that you can back. Board/Card Games and books can also be tricky, and softwa...