Bitcoin was never intended for instant payments, where the confirmation is needed in a few seconds, or at the most a couple of minutes. That is why the average interval between the blocks was kept at 10 minutes by Satoshi in 2009. He could have kept the interval at 1 minute or 30 seconds, but there may be a solid logic behind selecting larger period. Anyway, those who want to use BTC for instant payments do have the option of using third party service providers such as BitPay.

^^^ It is a very packed schedule for India, although there is a possibility that the Asia Cup (which is originally scheduled for June 2021) will be postponed to next year. The selectors need to rotate the players (especially the bowlers) in order to avoid burnout. With such crowded schedule, there is a real chance that a lot of the players will face injury issues. The India tour of Sri Lanka will immediately follow the IPL 2021.

It is not surprising that the rich are against cryptocurrency. They are more comfortable with other assets such as stocks and real estate, because they can manipulate these sectors through insider trading and other methods. But with a decentralized asset such as Bitcoin, this is not possible. The billionaires (apart from a very few) have missed the boat with Bitcoin investment and that explains their hatred towards this innovation.

They are not being pumped because they don't have any potential. XRP has been abandoned by most of its ordinary users after the SEC issue. Only the promoters are keeping it afloat with the help of bots. And regarding BCH, it has lost more than 50% of its value against BTC during the last few months. This coin also shows hardly any increase in adoption or acceptability. Now coming to EOS, it has lost the race to other third generation cryptocurrencies such as Cardano.

Anyway, the selectors will be happy. Else they would be in big trouble. So many good pace bowlers to select from, and there is room only for 3-4 players. And it is going to be even tougher when Shami will be fit. Shami, Bumrah, Shardul, Natarajan, Saini and Siraj forms the first tier, from which only around 50% can be included in the squad. And Shardul have the advantage here, as he is the best batsmen among all of them.

LOL.. TRX is in death bed right now and it's user base and acceptability is going down with each passing month. IMO, Cardano is one of the coins that have the capability to replace Ethereum from the #2 position. It is not going to be easy, as right now Ethereum is having almost complete monopoly as far as smart contract platforms are concerned. But a lot of users are getting fed up with the extremely high transaction fee and security issues.

It is not just KL Rahul. Rohit Sharma has scores of 12 and 15 so far in the T20 series. Virat Kohli was dismissed for single digits three times in his last 5 innings (twice for 0, and 1 in his last match). Shikhar Dhawan is also not in great touch recently (he was a failure even during the recent domestic tournaments - Vijay Hazare Trophy & Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy). Right now, I would say that Rishabh Pant is the only batsmen who is being consistent.

Indian spinners were wayward. Washington Sundar in particular gave away so many easy pickings for the batsmen (he went for 52 runs from his 4 overs). Shardul Thakur bowled well, but he was expensive in his first spell. He managed to pick up wickets in the end, because by then the required run rate was close to 15 runs per over. The best bowlers for India were Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Hardik Pandya. They were the ones who kept pressure on England, by bowling with a very tight line.

If publicly traded companies are purchasing Bitcoin, then they need to reveal it during their monthly/quarterly reports. So far we have seen only a very few companies following the example set by Tesla. It is possible that the privately held companies and some of the institutional investors are accumulating BTC. But these holdings are not open to third party audit, so we can only make assumptions regarding the volume and amount.

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of poor increased by 131 million as a result of this pandemic. On the other hand, the middle class declined by 90 million (with more than one third of that decline occurring in India). Even the high income group has seen a decline of 62 million in absolute numbers. More and more people are pushed towards poverty, and in the coming months it will be even worse.

The data from Pew Research Center can be accessed here: https://qz.com/india/1985855/more-poverty-smaller-middle-class-in-india-china-in-pandemic/

The biggest increase in the number of poor people have been reported in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Latin America seems to be somewhat unaffected. India alone has seen it's poor population increasing by a massive 75 million. 

Turned out to be a very close match, but India somehow managed to pull it back in the end. England must be regretting about the unnecessary runs they gave away during the final overs of Indian innings. Hardik Pandya once again surprised everyone with his tight bowling and he picked up two important wickets (Jason Roy and Sam Curran). It is nothing short of amazing, to concede just 4 runs per over in a match where the required run rate was close to 10.

Jonny Bairstow just got out, with Rahul Chahar on his second match getting the wicket. Now Eoin Morgan has come to the crease, to give company to Ben Stokes. England needs 50 plus runs in five overs, with 6 wickets remaining. It is never going to be easy, even with all the firepower England has down the order. Also, you need to remember that Bhuvneshwar Kumar has two overs remaining and he can be very difficult to get away during the depth overs.

Looks like India will win this match, despite the fact that they batted first after losing the toss. England has lost crucial wickets at regular intervals. Their batsmen literally threw away their wickets to useless shots. And at the same time, the required run rate has shot past 11.00. Now it will take a miracle to rescue England, and as long as the Indian bowlers are doing their job tightly, I don't see any such miracle around the corner.

I don't have anything against Suryakumar Yadav, but I am not happy with the omission of Ishan Kishan. Ideally KL Rahul should have been dropped. Look at his performance so far. He has made 7 runs from 11 balls. For heaven's sake someone tell him that he's playing in a T20 game and not a test match. Rahul is having issues against the bowling of Wood/Archer. I have already posted about this. IMO, the selection powers need to be taken away from Kohli/Damaadji combo.

One of the aims behind the invention of Bitcoin was to sidestep the banks. So I am not in favor of the idea about "Bitcoin banknotes". If we issue Bitcoin banknotes, then the boundary between cryptocurrency and fiat currency becomes blurred. In this case someone else is storing your money, and that goes against the principle of Bitcoin. The only reliable solution is to increase the block size. But since the miners are vehemently opposed to this idea, I don't think that it is possible. Lightning Network is more like a delaying tactic. It is not effective in any way.

Well.. global economy hasn't crashed, but I can't say that it is in really good health either. You can't solely rely on the Dow Jones Index and the other stock indices as a parameter for the economic resurgence. The stock market only deals with publicly listed companies and excludes the small and medium sized enterprises. Some of the sectors, such as tourism, hospitality and aviation are in death bed right now. 6 more months of the pandemic would spell doom for them.

I believe that this time India is going to win. Very surprising to see the second change that India made. Rahul Chahar has been included in the place of Yuzvendra Chahal. I was expecting the inclusion of Suryakumar Yadav, but the decision to drop Kishan surprised me. Ishan Kishan has been kicked out of the playing XI in order to accommodate Suryakumar Yadav. This is extremely unfair from the part of the selectors. Kishan performed really well in the second match and just one failure and he is out. So what is the justification for sticking with KL Rahul despite three consecutive failures?

IMO, West Indies and England are the favorites, with New Zealand being another team with strong chances to win the world cup. I would have added India to the list, but their performance during the ICC tournaments is not that good, even with the presence of star players. Australia is not in good form right now and the remaining teams can't even compete properly against the top sides.

^^^ Indian users are not sitting idle. For the last two months, they have been involved in a massive social media campaign against the proposed ban. Also, there is another campaign in which cryptocurrency users have sent emails and letters to the parliamentarians who represent them, urging not to ban cryptocurrency. Anyway, state elections are scheduled for next month, and at least from my part I have decided to use my vote wisely.

With players such as Pollard and Russell, West Indies should be the favorites for this year's T20 World Cup. Also, many of the West Indies players have good experience of playing in India, as they are participating in the IPL. They are the defensing champions as well, and therefore a lot of people expect them to perform well during this edition. However, as per the ICC T20 ranking, West Indies is ranked 9th.