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?


Casper: First rounds of Public Sales

25 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

    As the crypto market starts to heat up again after a year or two of slumber, so are the new project offerings. Polkerstarter (POLS) has been all the rage among crypto influencers and those who have access to the private sales (3000 POLS requir...

Easy Profit Opportunity or a Nasty Trap?

24 Feb 2021 6 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Early this morning, a new Binance Launchpad project came and went with incredibly little advance notice... or at least very little pre-publicity. Most of the Launchpad tokens are generally new project launches, with Launchpool handling projects...

Pool Together Governance Airdrop

18 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Those of us who are seeing all the new found interest in cryptocurrencies when everything is green and rosy can sometimes feel a little bit overlooked. After all, there were many of us who stuck around when things were difficult and built up pos...

The Accidental Pump?

15 Feb 2021 4 minute read 1 comment bengy

    The last couple of weeks has seen some new and inexperienced people come into the world of crypto. This has meant that sudden pumps have started to take place more frequently as the naive and greedy are led astray by those who should know bett...

The importance of Getting in Early and Wisely

14 Feb 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   Getting in early on a successful crypto project is the holy grail of those looking to strike it lucky. However, with the incredibly amount of projects that launch all over the internet and on different platforms, it can be next to...

SafePal (SFP) windfall and Yearn (YFI) makes DAI v1 pool whole again!

10 Feb 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  It's a bit strange for me to have a string of crypto related posts (or any other topic in a row for that matter...), but it has been an interesting time over this last week! And for a change, it's been pretty good news. If you followed my blog, I...

Using Binance as as Savings Bank

9 Feb 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Over the last year or more, I have been using Binance as a way to put my crypto to work in the various savings and staking products that they offer. More recently, I've been using it as a savings account for my Euros as well... seeing as the E...

Binance VISA Debit card: First Impressions

5 Feb 2021 5 minute read 0 comments bengy

  It's been something that I've been meaning to do for quite some time, but I finally set up the VISA debit card being offered from Binance. The VISA debit card is powered by Swipe, a company that was previously bought by Binance. It's a very simp...

Kusama (Polkadot testnet) Parachain Slot Auction (Kucoin simulation)

3 Feb 2021 3 minute read 2 comments bengy

  Coming up soon (over the next 14 days), the Parachain slots on the Polkadot (DOT) network will be being offered up for auction to the various projects that are aiming to have their network backed by the security of the main Polkadot chain. There...

DeFi for the Cautious and Risk-Averse

30 Jan 2021 5 minute read 1 comment bengy

DeFi is not really for the faint of heart, the number of projects that are best described as "untested" are rife in the cryptocurrency world. Meanwhile, the most trusted protocols exist on the Ethereum blockchain, which is long overdue for an upgrad...