Just because he is insanely popular as a boxer, it doesn't mean that he will get the same level of support from the citizens for his residential bid. The current president of Philippines do have insanely high approval levels (Rodrigo Duterte) and the only reason he is not running in the 2022 elections is due to term limitation. Right now it looks as if politicians such as Sara Duterte, Isko Moreno and Bongbong Marcos are the front runners, with Pacquiao trailing in the opinion polls.

The advantage for Royal Challengers Bangalore is that almost all of their batsmen are in top form, and his includes Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers. For the Kolkata Knight Riders, the top order (Nitish Rana/Shubman Gill/Rahul Tripathi) is in good form, but the same can't be said about the middle and lower order. Dinesh Karthik has failed repeatedly, while Andre Russell has been inconsistent.   

There is no proof that vaccines make it difficult for the body to produce antibodies naturally. Right now we don't have any other choice. Once the pandemic is controlled, there will be no need to vaccinate everyone. But that will take place only after at least one round of universal vaccination. More worrying is the fact that the virus is mutating now. South Asian countries are reporting more deaths because a "double-mutant" variant of the virus has been spreading among the population. We need to vaccinate everyone and contain the pandemic, before the virus mutates further and becomes more lethal.

I agree. Overall, it is a net positive. I don't know why so many people here (in this forum) are angry with this news. Being a decentralized asset, Bitcoin is open to anyone. So no one can really say that PayPal should stay out of Bitcoin. If we do that then there will be hardly any difference between fiat currency and cryptocurrency. For my part, I have seen only positives ever since PayPal started integrating Bitcoin to its platform in 2020. 

Festivals are turning out to be super-spreader events and you need to avoid it. Here in India, the second wave started after the Holi festival. Before that we were having on average less than 10,000 new cases per day. And yesterday 260,000 new cases were reported in India (despite some states not reporting their numbers because Sunday is a holiday). Festivals can be celebrated next year as well. So for the greater good, I would suggest everyone to skip these festivals this year.

When your brain is purely driven by greed, it becomes incapable of doing logical thinking. From what I have seen, a lot of cryptocurrency users are relatively careless while dealing with their coins. That is wrong and they need to treat cryptocurrency on par with fiat currency. If it was a fiat currency plan, where you need to spend $500,000 in cash to Elon Musk, will anyone be willing to make that transfer? The problem is that we treat fiat currency as money and are more relaxed when it comes to cryptocurrency.

^^^^^ Ganguly has made some positive changes as the President of BCCI. For the first time, the BCCI has voiced support for the inclusion of cricket in the 2028 Olympics. This is ground-breaking, as previously the BCCI, CA and ECB had a cabal to sabotage this move.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/bcci-agrees-to-field-both-mens-womens-teams-for-2028-los-angeles-olympics/articleshow/82106983.cms


This would have never happened if Sharad Pawar or N Srinivasan was in power. When ex-players head the cricket boards (instead of politicians and businessmen) they always give preference to the well-being of the sport, sidelining the other selfish motives. 

This is a good sign, and hopefully his other target (quadrilateral series) will be realized as well.

Going by the pace of the investigation, I don't think that any punishment will be handed out this year. Personally I feel that a 3-year suspension will be disproportional. But even if they decide to hand out such a punishment, then I don't expect it before 2022 or even 2023. And by that time Ibrahimovic will be 40 or 41 and happily retired from the game. I am saying this after looking at the investigation process during 2018-2021.

You are wrong on multiple fronts. First of all, the vaccine prevents you from contracting the disease (with up to 95% efficiency). And even in case you are infected after the vaccination, the symptoms are likely to be very mild. And secondly, you are wrong when you claim that the effects of the vaccine won't be seen anytime soon. Because we have already seen the impact in countries such as Israel, United Kingdom and Seychelles where the vaccination program has progressed well.

You are absolutely spot on. Bitcoin can be used as a payment, but it is not suitable for making day to day payments. The confirmation tome can vary from 5 minutes to 1 hour. Who is going to wait for this much time, to get his payment confirmed? Another issue is with the extremely high transaction fee. It's on the rise once again, and yesterday everyone was paying an average fee of around $20. Imagine paying this much as the fee for a coffee or burger, which itself costs just $3.

There is nothing like a posthumous award and therefore the Oscar for best actor should be given to the best performance irrespective of whether that individual is alive or not. Therefore I agree with you that Anthony Hopkins deserves the award much more than Chadwick Boseman. But under current political circumstances, it will be impossible for the jury to give the award to anyone other than Chadwick Boseman. Even if they want to do that, they can't. That's the bitter truth.   

I don't understand the point in allowing Zimbabwe to play test matches against stronger teams. If the PCB want to help the Zimbabweans, then they should have limited the number of matches to just one. There are other deserving teams out there. Afghanistan and Ireland have hardly played any test matches after they received the test status. Then why this largesse towards Zimbabwe? And from what I have seen, their quality has deteriorated further and they have no chance against teams such as Pakistan.

1 million is very significant, given that the entire circulating supply is only 154 million. And this makes BNB unique when compared to other altcoins such as XRP and DOGE. I don't think that a lot many of the altcoins have this decreasing supply algorithm, similar to what they have in BNB. It benefits the users in the end, as the burn events increase the value of the remaining coins. And the impact can be seen in the exchange rates as well. BNB is holding on, despite the disappointing NASDAQ listing by Coinbase.

IMO, the only advantages that ETH has over BSC is that the former has more adoption, due to being the first in the market. Ethereum was the first smart contract platform and this fact helped it to gain the market leader position from a very early date. There are dozens of technologically better alternatives available and one of them is BSC. But the users are reluctant to move from ETH chain to BSC. But once some big projects make the transition, BSC will quickly overtake ETH chain.

Coinbase claims to have an userbase of 56 million verified users. So first of all, it is really surprising to know that less than one-tenth of them can be described as "monthly active users". Why should anyone go through the rigorous KYC process, if they don't want to trade regularly (at least once in a month)? One reason may be that Coinbase is quite old (in terms of crypto). It was founded in 2012, and a lot of the users from those days may no longer be active now. I am sure that the ratio of active users to registered users will be much better for Binance.

If you have TRX or DOGE already in your wallet, then there is nothing wrong in using them for making the payment. On my part, I mostly go with BTC, since I don't have a lot many altcoins with me. Purchasing altcoins using BTC and then using them for the payment can be counterproductive, due to the extremely unstable exchange rates. And I don't necessarily agree with the last part of your post. The payment needs to be made and it doesn't really matter whether you are using BTC or fiat for that. If you really feel that you will lose out in the future, then why can't you purchase a large amount of BTC right now, rather than worrying about spending these small amounts?

We have proof that countries where the vaccination has reached good coverage has managed to reduce new cases by 90% to 98%. I am talking about countries such as Israel and the United Kingdom. You can check the COVID 19 situation in these countries. You are right on part, because the vaccines doesn't prevent the disease in 100% of the cases. Their efficacy ranges form 50% to 95%. But in remaining cases, the vaccine will make sure that the infected person doesn't require hospitalization. 

All these allegations were levelled against him even during the 2019 fight (against Thurman), but then we all know how it turned out in the end. Concerns about his age were raised back then as well. Also, there are accusations that he is concentrating on boxing too much, when he needs to spend his time as the senator. Personally I feel that he should have waited till his retirement to jump in to the political field. Now it has become difficult for him to manage both.

Check the original thread again. The central bank hasn't banned the P2P transactions. The ban only covers usage of cryptocurrency as a form of payment, to purchase goods and services. There is no ban, if you want to sell your cryptocurrency for fiat (either using the mainstream exchanges or the P2P platforms). So the solution is actually very simple. You first need to convert your BTC to fiat, before purchasing these goods/services.

I don't think any country in the foreseeable future will make Bitcoin as the national currency. Why should they? With fiat currency, the government can print unlimited amounts of money and use it for various expenses. It suits bankrupt countries such as Venezuela. If they go for Bitcoin, then due to the principle of controlled supply, it is not possible to do that. I don't think that the Venezuelan government can afford to give any sort of legality on the usage of Bitcoin as a legal tender.