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13641  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 Cricket World Cup - Discussion & Analysis on: April 18, 2019, 06:06:49 PM
Also let’s hope their decision to drop Pant doesn’t backfire, cause India’s batting line up is weak except Kohli who can alone score a lot of runs.
India's batting lineup is weak? Lol. The Indian batting lineup is one of the most feared batting lineups in the world currently. MSD, Rohit, Hardik, Dhawan, Kohli etc are some of the best batsmen in the world.

You need to do your research before making such bold statements.

No one in their right mind will say that the Indian batting line-up is weak. Virat Kohli alone is capable of defeating all the opposition teams. Their only concern should be about the pace-bowling options. One thing that I noticed during the 1999 World Cup is that the pacers need some time to get adjusted to the English conditions. Back then, the Indian bowlers struggled initially (esp. Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad), but as the tournament progressed, they started performing consistently.
13642  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Now FREE to JOIN] IPL 2019 Prediction Pool and discussion on: April 18, 2019, 06:01:03 PM
Ladies and gentlemen now there is another chance for Pant to prove his worth. Wishing him best of luck....

Failed again. And once again, he wasted many balls. This is not the sort of innings that is going to get the attention of selectors such as MSK Prasad. Mumbai Indians are now having 12 points from 9 matches, but their progression to the next stage is still not 100% certain. CSK is more or less in, but for MI, DC, KXIP, SRH and KKR a lot will depend on the remaining matches.
13643  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I deposit 37001 whitecoins to cryptopia exchange this week by mistake on: April 18, 2019, 11:30:05 AM
They're under no obligation to refund you those coins. But it looks like they are still controlling the old wallets, and it would be very unethical on their part if that is the case. But I am afraid that you are left with few options.
13644  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: AIRDROPS ASKING FOR KYC VERIFICATION on: April 18, 2019, 11:25:53 AM
You know the funny aspect of these airdrops? Most of them have a ridiculously low value. How can one submit KYC documents only to receive stipends not worth a dollar in the name of tokens? This is one of the reasons I quit airdropping hunt

I suspect that in most cases the government laws mandated that the airdrop promoters conduct KYC. But there will be exceptions. KYC documents are being misused on a massive scale, and many of them are up for sale on various dark market websites.
13645  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Now FREE to JOIN] IPL 2019 Prediction Pool and discussion on: April 18, 2019, 11:22:49 AM
Anyone want to predict the winner for today's match? It's a tough call actually. The Capitals are not doing that good, but they have an advantage against the MI. It will be interesting to watch Rishabh Pant, after the snubbing he received from the selectors. I would go with DC for today's match.
13646  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 Cricket World Cup - Discussion & Analysis on: April 18, 2019, 11:17:47 AM
It's a fact that Dhoni may have poor strike rate but whom else do you think fir for that position, with all of his experiences, tactics? You know there's no other option. Kartik will barely play better than Dhoni. KL Rahul isn't too performed as well as not experienced. Whom do you think better fit for the place?
Some people just don't understand the importance of MSD which is why they underestimate him whenever he fails and he replies in an epic manner always.

There are a lot more important factors when compared to strike rate like Dhoni's experience(He freaking lifted a World cup in both formats), amazing batsman, lightning fast wicket-keeping skills, ability to stay calm and composed and the list goes on. Kohli is lucky to have by his side!
And don't forget in the field, most of the time you will see Dhoni is actively advising the players. Kholi is the official captain but in the field Dhoni's role is more than a captain.

Check IPL performance of RCB. RCB has a very strong team. All are performer but why are they failing. Bad management, bad calling. Kohli takes bad decision and we are seeing the result already. They are out from the tournament losing 7 matches out of the 8 so far if I am not wrong.
Kohli basically could not lead a team of strong players effectively while MSD almost always does it which is why I will be sad to see him hang his boots most likely once the World cup concludes.

I am hoping that Kohli won't repeat the same mistakes with the main team which he made with RCB.

RCB has some of the best players in the world, but it is not a very balanced team. For example, if someone fails in the pace-bowling department, then there is no good replacement. Look at the current form of Umesh Yadav. Also, they don't have any world class spinners like Rashid Khan.
13647  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Cardano will destroy Ethereum! on: April 17, 2019, 05:49:14 AM
I like cardano. but the cardano does not reach a level that can destroy ethereum. cardano does not yet have a total fiction platform and ethereum can boast that. The cardano platform will be amazing but cannot destroy ethereum

Cardano, when it was listed for the first time, held a lot of promise. But unfortunately most of the expectations about the coin went unfulfilled, as the developers and promoters concentrated solely on the publicity, rather than taking care of the deficiencies and bugs.
13648  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: A city in Canada is letting people pay taxes in Bitcoin on: April 17, 2019, 05:46:07 AM
Canada has long supported cryptocurrency, but this can be good news for the world. So that other countries can imitate Canada in the use of bitcoin, and educate the public about bitcoin

Yes. Canada is one of those countries that has taken a less hostile approach to the cryptocurrency. In fact that is one of the few things that I like about Justin Trudeau. The regulations and policies in the United States are much more hostile.
13649  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bitcoin Debit Card on: April 17, 2019, 05:42:56 AM
I remember when i got my first bitcoin debit card 2 years ago, it was created by Qrypto and had some nice NFS technology. But i just take a look to their site and not sure if the business keeps running.

So after some research, i found this great article about 8 bitcoin cards you can get right now:

https://news.bitcoin.com/8-crypto-debit-cards-you-can-use-around-the-world-right-now/

The problem is that many of these providers are suddenly forced to shut down their operations, due to pressure from the law enforcement agencies. The collaboration between various national agencies is growing and the details of the debit card users in most cases are not anonymous anymore.
13650  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: The pitiful state of the Chinese economy could weigh on Bitcoin on: April 16, 2019, 10:27:16 AM
Now I see the point why they are pushing this mining ban in China. As always, Chinese people did not want to get their money out of country, but of course thwy want to get other countries' money into their cpuntry. However, the hole will be blockchain, specficaly bitcoin mining inside China where they spend their real-money for energy comsumption and spread digital money through out other countries.

Looking at the volume of Bitcoin transactions, I don't think that crypto is one of the methods being used by the HNWI to transfer money out of China. The daily transaction volume of BTC is somewhere around $10 to $15 billion. Out of that around 10% originates from China. Now this amount represents only a very small fraction of the Chinese GDP.
13651  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 2019 Cricket World Cup - Discussion & Analysis on: April 16, 2019, 10:20:04 AM
Russian team for the World Cup :-P
Just for fun
Quote
  Ashwani Chopra([captain] Right arm bowler and Batsman)
   Alexander Esin (Right hand batsman)
   Alexander Bogatyrev (Left arm Batsman and Right arm medium fast bowler)
   Andrey Bogatyrev (Right arm medium fast bowler)
   Andrey Shchpilo (Wicketkeeper batsman)
   Saqib Shaikh (Right arm batsman and medium fast bowler)
   Alexey Vasilyev (left arm wicket keeper batsman)
   Pavel Akishev (Right arm medium pacer)
   Alexander Vasilyev (left hand batsman and wkt keeper)
   Egor Sarubhukov (Left hand batsman)
   Ashok Chowdhary (Right hand batsman)
   Atul Tiagi (Right hand batsman)
   Khalil Rakhman (Right arm bowler and Batsman)
   Manjit Bhatia  (Right arm bowler and Batsman)
   Rashid Mukhkhamed (Left hand batsman and right arm spinner)
   Giaz Madzhid (Right arm fast bowler)
   Zeeshan Qureshi (allrounder)
   Mikhael Gulin (Right arm medium pace and left hand batsman)
   Alexey Strakhov (Left hand batsman)
   Nic Britz (Coach team Russia)
   Vicktor Sukhotin (Official Scorer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_national_cricket_team

Perhaps they can qualify for the 2039 world cup.  Grin

But one thing that I have noticed is that the Russian cricket team is composed of about 50%+ natives. This is good for their future prospects as a cricket team. Now compare this to the teams from UAE, Canada and the US (all of them have 0% native players). Canada used to have 2-3 native players (John Davison, Ian Billcliff, Geoff Barnett, Stewart Heaney, Barry Seebaran.etc), but they left the team due to differences with the management.
13652  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Now FREE to JOIN] IPL 2019 Prediction Pool and discussion on: April 16, 2019, 10:09:47 AM
You are right. I feel like he should rest Umesh and go for someone else . Southee should always stay in playing 11 according to me. No quality bowling at all except Chahal but well he only gets 4 damn overs right?

I don't understand the logic behind including players such as Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Siraj in the playing XI, when they are under-performing continuously for 4-5 matches. Apart from Southee, Royal Challengers Bangalore has the option of fielding players such as Colin de Grandhomme, Washington Sundar and Dale Steyn.
13653  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: April 16, 2019, 10:04:54 AM
Duckworth Lewis method was invented after carefully analyzing the outcomes of thousands of matches. So I wouldn't say that the method was wrong. And I don't understand why you think that the UAE was ahead. Two set batsmen were playing when bad light stopped play (PJ Moor at 45, and Chakabva at 78), and at that point they needed 25 runs to win from 3 overs (with 6 wickets in hand).
I can very well tell that the method is not perfect, i will give you a perfect example about a match between South Africa and England in 1992 world cup, South Africa needed 22 runs to win from 13 balls and when the rain interrupted and the score was adjusted using Duckworth Lewis method and so South Africa needed to win the same runs in 1 ball, how can you claim that as a fair calculation and not a wrong method.
I never said UAE was ahead, i just said they had the opportunity to upset them simply because of DLS method.

You are wrong on multiple fronts. Back in 1992, Duckworth Lewis was not the method used for determining the outcome of the rain affected matches. Back then there was a different method being used by the ICC, and the D/L method was first used by the ICC in 1999. As a matter of fact, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis came up with the new method inspired by the outcome of the 1992 match.
13654  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: LTC or ETH, what good to own now?? on: April 16, 2019, 09:56:40 AM
Even now, I have a feeling that Litecoin is very much under-valued. It is one of the oldest alts, and in fact it is almost as old as the Bitcoin itself. And despite it's technology being a bit outdated, LTC has survived for almost a decade against tough competition. On the other hand, many of the newer alts with better technology have either died out or become dormant.
13655  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Altcoin is still productive on: April 15, 2019, 02:55:20 PM
There is nothing wrong in investing in the alts and tokens. But you need to be vary careful. I would say that out of the dozens of coins and tokens currently circulating, only a few dozen have the potential to make it big. A few that comes to my mind right now are Cardano, Bitcoin Cash, NEO, Litecoin, Stellar, Monero and Zcash. If you are planning to invest in a coin outside this list, then be extremely cautious.
13656  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: You Can't Be Jobless And Be Participating In Bounties on: April 15, 2019, 02:47:48 PM
Participate in bounty as a jobless hunter, then after failed 30 campaigns, retire to refugee campaign or face automatic depression. As we stand now, partly because of the current market situation, bounty hunting should be done at leisure time, too many failing projects and fake teams. Although a it's important we accumulate good tokens for the future as the current situation is temporary. Get a job as a bounty hunter to avoid self pity,

I don't understand the requirement to get rid of the full time job. Even if you are participating in 30-40 different bounty campaigns (I am assuming social media bounty), it is not going to take more than 1 to 1.5 hours per day. You can easily find this much spare time, even if you are working for 8 to 10 hours every day on your full-time job.
13657  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What causes tokens been dumped after a successful ICO. on: April 15, 2019, 02:44:42 PM
The most valuable reason for a big dump after the first listing on exchanges are the bounty hunters. Due to the current market situation they are trying to earn at least something after any bounty to stay in crypto sphere.

This is the most common myth regarding to the ICOs. Bounty hunters get a pool of around 1% to 2% of the total tokens (sometimes even lower). How they are going to crash the prices with this many tokens? In most of the cases I have studied, the prices crashed after the promoters dumped all or a part of their tokens. It is unfair to blame the poor bounty hunters for everything.
13658  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: You Can't Be Jobless And Be Participating In Bounties on: April 14, 2019, 05:13:14 AM
It depends. There are several types of bounty campaigns out there. If you are participating in social media bounties (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit.etc), then you can do these activities when you have spare time. On the other hand, if you are in to translation bounty, then it takes a lot of time and effort. In such cases, it may not be possible to have a full time job and do the bounty at the same time.
13659  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization on: April 14, 2019, 05:10:36 AM
It is estimated that that the Cryptocurrency market capitalization went down to $200 billion from $800 billion that it was as at January 2018.
I believed it was due to the bearish market .
What I do not understand is while there is continuous growth of Cryptocurrency, people are picking interest and coming into the cryptosphere and yet the market capitalization is still not moving upwards.
What could be the challenge here?

Crypto market capitalization can't be compared to.. say equity market capitalization. With crypto, the stats are much more vague. For example while talking about a particular crypto, we don't know how much of that currency is in free-float and how much is in reserves. There are cryptos out there, with less than 10% of the circulation in free-float. For such coins, the market capitalization may be heavily exaggerated. 
13660  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Wikileaks Bitcoin Donations Spike with Arrest of Julian Assange on: April 14, 2019, 05:07:42 AM
Assange is for some reason decided to leave the embassy of Ecuador, maybe 7 years in house arrest it was too much for him. When I say he decides it, I think of his actions against Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno in which some documents have been published on WikiLeaks, where the president is accused of a corruption scandal.
You're wrong, Wikileaks didn't publish the documents. The INA Papers, the documents accusing Lenin of corruption, were published in a website called inapapers(dot)org. Wikileaks only tweeted (a month later) about the allegations of corruptions against Lenin citing the aforementioned website. Hell, the whole thing started because some ecuadorian journalists started digging about Moreno's offshore companies.

Because of this tweet, the Ecuadorian govt assumed it was Wikileaks who leaked the documents and used it as an excuse to expelled Assaled from the ecuadorian embassy, probably to avoid any backlash from the US against Lenin Moreno in case the corruption allegations are true.

Doesn't surprise me a bit. Anyway it confirms my suspicion that Ecuador double crossed on Assange after he refused to compromise on his ethics and principles. Two days back Rafael Correa (the ex-president of Ecuador who had granted asylum to Assange) had criticized the current president Lenín Moreno for handing over Assange to the US authorities. This is actually very surprising because Moreno was Correa's candidate. Correa supported Moreno, because he could not run for the presidential post due to term limits.
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