The Berlin hard fork is supposed to increase the efficiency of gas fee usage. But I am skeptical about it, because of their broken promises so far. The hard fork will be officially activated tomorrow (14th April). Another upgrade of the Ethereum network is scheduled for July 2021 (London hard fork). Some of the users are claiming that the London hard fork will have a more significant impact on the fee levels, but the Berlin fork will be having only a minimal effect.

Today we have a high-voltage match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians. The point to remember here is that MI has win 9 out of the last 10 matches between the two teams. However, the morale in the Mumbai Indians camp may be low after their defeat to Royal Challengers Bangalore, while the Kolkata Knight Riders won their last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad in a quite convincing manner.

From what I can understand, the OP kept his coins in the electrum wallet and someone hacked in to it and stole the coins. But the entire story doesn't make any sense. The outgoing transaction is from 2019, and from the image it is clear that the transaction was unconfirmed at the time of taking the screenshot. That means that the screenshot was taken in 2019, immediately after the outgoing transaction. So why complain all of a sudden now?

From what I understand, a decent Tesla car costs around $100,000 in the United States. So here in India, the prices can be at least 50% to 60% higher. And the average annual income stands at $1,000 per year. At this point, I don't think that a lot many people would go for Tesla in India. Also who will spend their Bitcoins on an asset which will get depreciated after every year, especially when we are all expecting a very significant bull rally?

If we go by the 4-year cycle, then the next ATH should come by December 2021. Back in 2013 we had the first ATH, at $1260 per coin. And four years later, in December 2017, there was another ATH at $20,000 per coin. If we go by this trend, then the next peak should happen by 2021 December. Now I don't know whether $400,000 will be attained or not, but it is possible given the increase in userbase and acceptability during the 2017-2021 period.

There was hardly any other choice for the poorer nations. Vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen were hoarded by the richer nations and the supplies were not available to third world nations. Russia offered Sputnik V vaccine to some of the poorer nations, but the quantity that was available was very low. So the only vaccines that were available in good numbers were from China - Sinovac, Sinopharm and CanSino Biologics. These companies claimed that their vaccines are very effective, but now they are turning out to be huge disappointments. 

Because it will not. It is ridiculous to say that Bitcoin will replace gold. Both the assets can't even be compared. Gold is a physical asset that has been in use for thousands of years, while Bitcoin is a digital asset that is only a decade old. And even the talk of Bitcoin replacing oil is ridiculous. No one in their right state of mind would claim that Bitcoin will replace crude oil. It is like saying that HIV can be treated with aspirin instead of Abacavir.

Russia is one of the countries that is worst affected by capital outflows. The corrupt oligarchs don't want to store their wealth in Russia, and therefore they transfer most of it to tax havens such as Cyprus and London. In countries such as China, they keep the national currency at a specific rate due to manipulation by the government. But the ruble doesn't receive any such support from the government and that is the reason why it is constantly devaluing.

Initial estimate is that the immunity from the vaccines last 12 to 60 months (1 to 5 years). Since the vaccination has just started, the accurate numbers are not available and these are just estimates. The mean value would be 3 years. I think that much time is more than enough to vaccinate the 60% population (which is required for herd immunity) and to contain the pandemic. Hopefully by the second half of this year, the pandemic will come under control.

In most cases, it is due to complexities with tax liability and overall legality of gambling. In countries such as India, all forms of gambling is banned. So a lot of people travel to countries such as Macau and Singapore to visit casinos. But if they win big amounts of money, they can't bring it back to India in the form of cash, since gambling itself is banned there. So in many cases, the gamblers convert their reward to BTC and then transfer it anonymously.

The latest news is that Pacquiao wants his farewell match to be at Las Vegas, which is deemed as the boxing capital of the world. However Brian McIntyre (trainer to Terence Crawford) has stated that the Pacuiao vs Crawford match can only be scheduled in the middle east. Since Pacquiao is aiming to run for the Philippines presidential elections in 2022, he may not have enough time for a match at Las Vegas, if he takes up Crawford's offer.

https://www.worldboxingnews.net/2021/04/10/manny-pacquiao-crawford-vegas-dilemma/

I understand that Vijay Shankar is one of the very few pace bowling all rounders in India. But when was the last time he gave a decent performance? He had only one 30 plus score during the last IPL (in which he played 8 matches). Abdul Samad is an explosive batsman, but I don't know whether he has the patience to put up a big score. And this is where Kane Williamson fits in. I personally believe that Williamson should have been included in the playing XI, instead of Nabi.

I visited the website and they have set it up using Medium. We need to report it to Medium admin, and hopefully they will close down the webpage. But I suspect a lot of people have already lost their money to this scam. Their webpage is full of fake comments such as this one:




They use sites such as Microworkers to recruit people to post such comments, in return for a small payment of $0.05 or $0.10. I have 7 years of experience here in cryptocurrency and therefore I could easily identify such scams. But new users may fall victim.

$2,000 from a single campaign? That sort of rewards were common in 2017 and during the first half of 2018. But after that the average payout dropped to the $10-$100 range (and only a small minority of the campaigns were making any sort of payment). It is good to hear that there are still some bounties that pay their rewards honestly. You are extremely lucky as well, as I know some of my friends who have gone without a payment even after participating in a dozen bounty campaigns.

BTC0.3 is huge!!! As per current market rates, it amounts to $18,000+. It is really sad to hear that new users are losing so much of their hard earned money to scammers. This particular scam has been going on for almost two years now. They always change their website and BTC address, but the methodology is the same. Can't we track down the transactions and identify these scammers? They are stealing huge amounts from unsuspecting users.

Couldn't put it any better than this. And this is exactly why I never take loans to make investment. Even with mainstream assets such as equities, I have a policy of never making an investment from a loan. There were a few occasions where it was looking very attractive to make an investment in IPOs, and I couldn't do it because I was short of cash. I had the option of taking a loan, but went against the idea in the end. And most of the time, it worked for me pretty well.

There are two factors here. Different types of vaccines are available and they have efficacy ranging from 50% to 95%. Since the efficacy is not 100%, there is always a chance of contracting the COVID 19 infection even after full dose of the vaccine. But the advantage with those who got vaccinated is that even if they get the infection, it will be mild or asymptomatic, unlike the case with those who have not undergone vaccination.

CSK was just hopeless. Their strategy of including too many oldies (i.e players above 38-40 years of age) is clearly not working. And another big negative is the poor form of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. During the last edition also, Dhoni's batting was unsatisfactory. Ruturaj Gaikwad as the opener is not working. Their bowlers are also conceding too many runs. The only bright spots from the first match were Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina and Moeen Ali.     

Corporations such as PayPal, Visa and Master are going ahead with plans to fully integrate cryptocurrency to their platforms. It is going to take some time, but the impact will be visible before the end of this year. The involvement of these corporations have expanded the cryptocurrency userbase by manytimes. For example, PayPal has made cryptocurrency accessible to its 361 million registered users. A lot of people who faced difficulty in purchasing and holding BTC can now do that through PayPal. Given these changes, I expect another major rally sometime soon.

Social media platforms were up in arms against Trump, and a lot of suburban voters got swayed by the campaign from corporations such as Twitter, Google and FaceBook. So the choice was between a president who is not liked by the social media and in favor of low taxes, and someone who is the darling of social media and in favor of high taxes. The American voters made their choice and I congratulate them. I hope they are now happy with the tweets that are coming out of the official POTUS handle. Obviously that is a higher priority when compared to taxes, employment and economic growth.