Shower thoughts about subjects both great and small! Crypto, Society, Governance... What does it mean for Ponies to have Cutie Marks?
9 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
This recent stretch of low Ethereum gas prices has been a huge chance to do all the things that I had been putting off for quite some time. Uniswap V3 migration, ENS registration, Kleros courts, staking and airdrop claims are all the things that...
6 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhhhh... Kleros Court, this is a project from the earlier idealistic days of Ethereum... when blockchains and decentralisation were synonymous with idealistic goals about changing the infrastructure of social and political structures and not as a...
4 Jun 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy
Getting in on crowdsales and IEOs are a very nice way of backing projects in the riskiest but potentially most financially lucrative stages of their development. Of course, you will be behind the VC firms and early seed funders... but it is pretty...
2 Jun 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
The latest in the batch of CoinList Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) is for Vega with a three round crowdsale with differing lockup times and prices. Obviously, the longer the lockup time, the lower the price. Vega is an attempt to replace the...
30 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Uniswap V3 launched a little while back which offered liquidity providers a way to concentrate their assets into a much narrower band of prices instead of covering the complete infinity range of V2. This means that you have much better capital e...
28 May 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Trust Wallet is gaining quite a bit of traction as a mobile hot wallet and for the most part it does a pretty good job on Binance Smart Chain, but it isn't so hot at other chains like Polkadot apart from just storing your coins. H...
22 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash It has been a pretty brutal week for cryptocurrencies this week... Crypto-Twitter seems to be all blaming Elon Musk. However, if you are going to start blaming all of this on a handful of tweets, well, I think you are going to be...
21 May 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy
Cross-border currency transfers Unsplash As an Australian living overseas in Europe, I've often had cause to send money back and forth between the countries where I currently live and where I used to live. In the early 2000's when we fi...
19 May 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy
Unsplash Well well... what a morning to wake up to! I hope you had taken some advice from just last week and had set targets for taking profits gradually on the way up. I have been steadily chomping away as target after target was knocked...
18 May 2021 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ever since my wife and I purchased our home, we have been long considering installing solar panels on the roof to do our little bit towards tilting the energy mix towards a renewable focus. These sorts of little adjustments start to become front...
