The problem in keeping the coins with third party service providers such as Coinbase is that they can freeze your coins without any warning and then ask KYC documents in order to get back the access. As such there is no need to store coins in third party wallets. You can easily set up a desktop lite wallet or an online wallet and store your coins. It is going to be as secure as a Coinbase wallet. Just remember to take the basic security precautions, such as email confirmation and 2FA.

There are different ways of looking in to it. By mid-2015, the exchange rates had hit rock bottom at around $200 per coin. This represented 85% decline from the ATH levels of 2013 December. Then there was a small recovery, and the prices reached $900 per coin by 2017 January (which was still 20% lower than the 2013 ATH level). I would rather consider the movement from 2015 to 2017 January as a "recovery", rather than a "rally". IMO, the rally started in Q1 2017 and lasted for less than 12 months.

Every single Bitcoin transaction is being stored in the Blockchain and therefore in a strict sense, Bitcoin is not anonymous. But it is not very easy to trace back the Bitcoin transactions to the individual user, unless at some point an exchange with fiat currency is being made. Anonymous coins are there, such as Monero and Deep Onion. But they never attained any sort of popularity or acceptance among the users and none of them are included in the top-10 list by Coinmarketcap.

For the second ODI also, India have gone with the same bowling lineup. And this time, they seems to have got a good start. Both Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami are bowling with good line and length.

I agree with you on the second part of your post. Nowadays we expect the bowlers to chip in with the bat as well. As we saw during the last match, Navdeep Saini and Mohammed Shami made noticeable contributions with the bat. But then we can't expect genuine tail enders such as Bumrah to do the same.

Not sure about the rankings, but the current Indian hockey team looks like a shadow of their former self. In the recent times, they never won any global events. And also, you can't compare a small sport like hockey to major sports such as cricket, football and basketball. So the sponsorship and fanbase is going to be smaller when compared to cricket.

Another issue is the corruption and incompetence of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). And there have even been sexual abuse allegations. A decade ago, national team member T S Ranjitha Devi accused the Indian coach M K Kaushik of sexual harassment. She claimed that those who refused to have physical relationship with Kaushik were excluded from the squad. A sham enquiry followed, but nothing happened to Kaushik.

Now coming to Kabaddi, it is a minor sport played in a handful of nations. And even in this sport, India is no longer the lone powerhouse. There have been attempts to get these sports to the franchise system in India, starting with Hockey India League (HIL) and Pro Kabaddi League. While the latter is doing relatively well, the HIL is now defunct due to a number of reasons (all of which are perfectly understandable).

Most of the gambling sites have disbursed the winning amount to those who made bets in favor of Biden. So in the very unlikely scenario of the election results getting overturn, I don't think that the other set of players may receive their rewards. To be honest, everyone were unprepared for this. Both the gamblers, as well as the online casinos. No one expected the election to be so close. The media was always claiming that it is going to be a blowout for Biden.

I seriously doubt whether it is possible to continue with the Olympics without mass vaccination programs. If it was any other sporting event, then I would have less uncertainty. But Olympics is the largest sporting event on earth, involving more than ten thousand athletes. Add in the coaching staff and others, and the numbers can easily reach 30,000 or even 40,000. Conducting an event with this many, without a vaccine is risky.

I don't know whether Libra will be launched or not. But their approach was wrong from the very beginning. Mark Zuckerberg and David Marcus stole the idea from Satoshi Nakamoto and then without giving any credit to the original inventor, they tried to create a competing product. What they did was very unethical and I won't be surprised if Libra remains in the freezer for the next few decades.

This was what we thought earlier. No one thought that the other nations would be able to compete against China. But the situation has changed rapidly. Many of the Western corporations have moved their manufacturing facilities from China, to countries such as India and Philippines. And everything seems to be going smoothly. China no longer has the sole advantage of cheap labor, low taxes and lax regulations. The other countries have also learnt from China and are taking the necessary steps.

Normally altcoins go up when the Bitcoin prices go up. But this time a lot of red flags can be noticed with the altcoins. Compared to the situation in 2017, many of the alts are showing much lower liquidity and at least some of them seems to be stagnant as far as the development is concerned. Even if the exchange rates are going up for now, I am doubtful whether the hype can be sustained for too long.

There is no guarantee that the virus will not hit us again. As you know, Coronavirus is a strain of the flu-virus. What differentiated it from the other strains is its ability to spread rapidly and the moderately high mortality rate. And unlike the bacteria, virus are known to mutate rapidly. And once they mutate, the existing vaccines would no longer work against them.

It was one man show from Lockie Ferguson. West Indies was about to set a big score, but then Lockie started his spell and got the important batsmen out. Ferguson ended with 5/21. Other bowlers went for plenty. Hamish Bennett conceded 50 runs in 15 balls, while James Neesham went for 32 runs off his 9 balls (1.3 overs). But then undisciplined bowling in the second innings cost West Indies the match.

So far 8 matches have been completed, and ATK Mohun Bagan is on top with 6 points (2 wins from 2 matches). The other team from Kolkata (East Bengal FC) is languishing at the bottom of the points table. And once again, it is last years heroes such as Roy Krishna who are having the biggest impact. I am still not fully satisfied with the quality of the matches. They need to consider increasing the limit for foreign players from the current 6 to either 8 or 10.

Cricketers are also human. If Rohit's father is not well and he wants to be with him, then the BCCI needs to excuse him from this series. There may be some impact from his absence, but the team should be able to overcome it. We can't go back to the 90s, when the Indian cricket team was like an one man army centered around Sachin Tendulkar. Other players need to step up and take additional responsibility.

The Australians prepared a very flat track, which offered no special assistance to the bowlers. Both the pacers and spinners went for plenty of runs. Yuzvendra Chahal had his baptism in fire, on his first trip to Australia. One interesting thing is that the Australian pace bowlers (with the exception of Josh Hazlewood) looked as if they are out of form. This is a bad sign for them.

Please don't compare a shitcoin such as XRP with BTC. Ripple is a scam, and sooner or later those who are investing in it will realize the same. On top of being heavily manipulated, Ripple is a very centralized cryptocurrency. In short, it is cryptocurrency in just name. XRP is similar to a central bank issued fiat currency, which exists in the format of cryptocurrency.

Latest stats indicate that more and more women are venturing in to cryptocurrency. No one is preventing them from investing in cryptocurrency. Being a female myself, I have to say that most of the women are likely to stick with low-risk options such as bank deposits and bonds. It is their choice not to invest in cryptocurrency, and no one else needs to bother about it.

Still not enough to change my opinion.

Ever since PayPal made Bitcoins available in their platform, more than a million users have made use of that opportunity and accumulated Bitcoin. This seems to be an isolated case for me. PayPal do have some tough T&C. This user might have violated at least some of them. Anyway, I hope that he will appeal against this ban and his account limitations will be removed by PP soon.

What is bothering me is the uncertainty regarding the fees. It is getting quite difficult to calculate the fee now. Yesterday I made one transaction, after paying 30 Sat/Byte as the fee (which would have given me instant confirmation according to various fee calculator sites). But after I made the transaction, the Mempool size went up and the transaction got stuck. It got confirmed only after 4 hours.

Just when we were talking about new ATH levels, a major correction has occurred. During the last 3-4 hours, the exchange rates have fallen from $19,200 to $18,200. Actually I was wondering why no major corrections hasn't occurred till now. If you remember, the rally from $12K was largely devoid of major dips. There were some minor temporary dips, but they didn't even lasted one full day.