It is not logical to provide healthcare or education based on the skin color. Let's assume that the government want to improve the healthcare facility in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Let's assume that 80% of the population is African American, 10% is white and 10% is Hispanic. The government constructs new healthcare/educational facilities. Are you saying that these facilities should be open only to the 80% African American population? If that is the idea about repatriation, then it is plain wrong. I would instead extend these facilities to the remaining 20% as well. But in the second scenario, it won't be called as repatriation.

It's the usual story. Ollie Pope and Ben Foakes got out in quick succession and now they are struggling at 174/7. Dan Lawrence looks to be in good touch, but he is about to run out of partners. The tail has started and now Dom Bess is at the crease. Jack Leach and James Anderson to come next. England can consider themselves lucky in case they manage to get past 200.

Jonny Bairstow is gone, trapped leg before by Mohammed Siraj. Now they are down to Ben Stokes and Ollie Pope. One good news for England is that they included one additional batsman in the playing XI. So apart from Ben Foakes, they have Dan Lawrence also yet to come. Perhaps that should help them to make a total of 150 plus. Also, may be Dom Bess and Leach could add some valuable runs this time around.

I have a slightly different take on this. You should sell your Bitcoins, when it is clear that a peak valuation has been achieved and the future prospects are not very bright. The target is not something that should be constant. Target could be changed to reflect the changing market dynamics. For example, if you had purchased the coins in 2012 or 2013, and at that time you set a target of $50,000. Once that target is achieved, you need to think about the next step. If you feel that the future prospects are good, then you can sell a part of your coins and keep the remainder for the long-term after setting a new target.

I don't really care whether the Biden administration takes any step to promote innovation or not. Bitcoin has thrived for more than a decade, despite the government taking a hostile stance. And I am sure that the same will be the case for the next one or two decades as well. Bitcoin don't need any institutional support. It is decentralized and is not dependent on any authority or outside support.

In modern human society there is no place for discrimination based on race or ethnicity, so I would agree. If such discrimination exists, then the government should take steps to eradicate it. But there is no need to link this with repatriation. What the racial minorities in the United States need right now is affordable healthcare/education/housing and not monetary handouts based on race.

It is getting boring. I never watch one sided test matches and therefore stopped watching it when the second wicket fall. I see no improvement in the England batting. And it would be a surprise if they manage to cross a total of 150. I just hope that this time the match doesn't end in two days, as happened with the third test match. As long as Joe Root is there, some hope exists for England. Let's see how it goes for them.

They know that cryptocurrency activity can't be made illegal or unlawful. That's why they are trying to scare away the investors. After the repeated statements by Yellen, today we had Elizabeth Warren going ballistic about Bitcoin. But the timing is wrong. They should have made these statements during a crash in the exchange rates. If they had done that, then at least some people would have taken them seriously. Now when the Bitcoin prices are up, they are coming up with such ridiculous statements.

I don't think that they are not a good team. Previously against some of the stronger teams they had played well. Don't know what happened this time, but I suspect that going for too many players and lack of exposure to the longer format of the game proved to be their undoing. They need to play more test matches, so that they will get enough experience in this format. There are a lot of T20 specialists in the Afghanistan team. But they don't have any test specialists. 

Very poor performance from the part of Afghanistan. I don't know what happened to them, but 2-3 years ago they were giving stiff competition even to the big 3 sides. I understand that the absence of Rashid Khan (due to injury) impacted them negatively. But there is no excuse for the failure from the part of their batsmen. After all these years, Afghanistan still doesn't have a stable top order. They are experimenting with new players every now and then.

There are more than 10,000 different altcoins and tokens (including the dead and the dormant coins). However, out of this many coins, a handful of them are accounting for a large majority of the altcoin market cap. The total market cap of altcoins stand at around $500 billion. Out of that, Ethereum alone accounts for $185 billion. Cardano, BNB and Polkadot together accounts for $100 billion plus. So just four alts are accounting for more than half of the altcoin market cap.

In the cryptocurrency market, the logic behind the rise of several cryptocurrencies is hard to explain. DOGE was originally created to mock Bitcoin. But after some time, it achieved cult status among a section of cryptocurrency users. Even the creator of DOGE disowned that coin. But that had little impact on it's exchange rate or trade volumes. Obviously powerful people are pumping DOGE. The pump will come to an end at a certain point and at that time DOGE will end up similar to XRP.

I don't have many transactions in 2021, but made some mistakes in 2019 and 2020. I purchased a lot of BCH with my Bitcoin during that period. And unfortunately, the current BCH exchange rate (against BTC) is around 50% lower when compared to the rate with which I made my purchase. That was a big miscalculation from my part. Other mistake was the decision to sell 20% of my BTC in 2020. The average sale price was $8,000 to $10,000 per coin. If I had held on to the coins, then I would have received 5x to 6x more profit.

Members of all racial groups underwent enslavement at one time or the other. However Democrats want to paint that slavery was only committed against the Africans and whites were the only perpetrators. Nothing can be farther from the truth.

The worst atrocities were carried out by the Arabs, who had established a lucrative slave trading business in Eastern Africa for almost a millennium. However, unlike the Atlantic slave trade, very few descendants of East African slave trade exist. Because the male slaves were immediately castrated and made eunuchs, while any children born to the female slaves were killed as soon as they were born. Fore more than 5 centuries, the Tatars and Turks enslaved millions of East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Poles.etc). Barbary pirates raided Southern Europe, taking huge number of Italian, Spanish and Greek slaves.

Repatriations would still be OK, if they are being paid to individuals who were enslaved once. But that is not the case. The demand is that descendants of a particular ethnic group must be uniformly paid handouts, irrespective of whether they are descended from slaves or not.

Here it gets murky. Take the case of the Amazonia region. During the late 19th century, hundreds of thousands of defenseless natives were enslaved by the rubber companies. The owners of these rubber companies were whites. But the slave raiders were blacks (mostly descended from freed slaves) who were imported from the island of Barbados. These black employees committed spine chilling atrocities against the defenseless natives. They would rape children as young as 3 or 4 years and they would cut the limbs off the children if their parents could not gather enough rubber. One of their favorite past time was to lift infants by their legs and smash their head against rocks. If the democrats have their way, then these barbarians and their descendants will be proclaimed as worthy of repatriations and the remnants of the native slaves will be declared as "oppressors".


A grand total of $1.3 billion. That is for 2.43 billion acres of land, and tens of millions of deaths.

If they want to start paying reparations, then they should first pay them to the descendants of American Indians who underwent genocide when the Europeans first colonized North America. I am talking about incidents which occurred during the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Isolated incidents of genocide against the natives continued into the early decades of 20th century (check the case of Ishi, the last of the Yahi tribe).

And the first people to be enslaved in the United States were the native Americans in the 16th century, especially the Calusa, Timuqua and other Floridan tribes by the conquistadors. History of African American slavery in the United States started at a much later date. The first slaves from Africa were imported to the United States only in 1619.

Now what is the logic in saying that repatriations should be paid to only one ethnic group, while the group which was the most effected (native Americans) should be disqualified from receiving any of this amount? African Americans increased in number, and they account for 45 million individuals currently. On the other hand, the natives were almost wiped out. Pure-blooded natives number less than a million, and 99% of the languages which were spoken by them before 1600 are now extinct.

I first registered to this forum in 2012 and got my first coins during that time. I still have some coins remaining from that stash. That said, I very rarely come across any of the users from 2010, although 2011/12 is more common. Even those users who have registered back then have sold most of their coins at lower levels and only a minority would have kept their coins as such. And just one correction. Back in Q1/Q2 2010, the exchange rate was $0.001, and not $0.01.

Everything is priced in fiat currency and when the exchange rates change, the amount of coins that you pay may also change. And in most cases, the traders immediately convert their coins to fiat. So the volatility is an issue for the buyers. The sellers/merchants are not much impacted. Also, lot of the merchants use third party processors such as Bitpay and Coinbase to immediately convert their BTC revenues to fiat currency.

It is debatable. Bitcoin first came in to existence in 2009. Ever since then, long term investment was never a loss making exercise. If you were holding Bitcoin for more than three years, then at no point between 2009 and 2021 you will be in a loss. Now I can't make any guarantee about the future, but I am hopeful that what has happened during the last 12 years will repeat for another decade or so.

Yup.. I was wrong in my post. England is out of the WTC finals after their pathetic performance in the second test. They had to win the series, and now it is not possible. So it is now between Australia and India. The Kiwis are surely going to prefer Australia over India as their opponents. Australia is in pathetic form right now and both their batsmen and the bowlers are not doing well.

Winners of the last match will go directly to the World Test Championship final, so it is extremely important. For Indians, the good work done in the second and third test matches will be undone if they lose the fourth match as a result of their complacency. If England wins the toss and manages to put a total of 300-350, then things will get interesting. Their bowlers did OK so far. The issue was with their batting.