What he failed to understand was that the economic condition was also closely linked to the well being of the population. He could have taken a cautious approach against the pandemic, rather than being a motormouth. The infections and deaths would have happened anyway (even the European countries which went through tough lockdowns reported more deaths per million when compared to the United States), but it was Trump's refusal to take the pandemic seriously which cost him the election.

If I am not wrong, this time the broadcasters are not happy with the scheduling and they are suing CA. At this point, it was a bad decision from the part of the board to schedule the Indian tour exactly overlapping the BBL. Actually the BBL started well with the domestic Australian audience, with more than 700,000 viewers for the initial matches. But it declined later, as the national team started its matches against India. The viewership for BBL in India is also down by a lot, for obvious reasons.

That's true. But right now, Tesla is looking like the most overpriced asset in this planet. For Tesla, the annual revenues as per their report in 2019 stood at less than $25 billion. The net income was negative, and stood at -$0.9 billion. On the other hand, for Amazon the annual revenues for 2019 stood at $281 billion and the net income (after taxation) stood at $11.6 billion. Both of them can't even be compared. The revenues for AMZN is more than 11 times that of TSLA. But people are accumulating the TSLA stock like there is no tomorrow.

Population explosion is the root cause for most of the issues in India. The population has already touched 1.4 billion and it is growing by around 25 million every year. Only around 1% of the population pays any income tax at all. That means that this 1% needs to subsidize the remaining 99%. The tax burden is very heavy on those who are in the tax bracket. With the Bitcoin prices increasing quite sharply, I expect the government to tighten the cryptocurrency trade within the country and increase the tax rates.

LOL.. it was really funny though. This is not the first time that Kerala Blasters lose a match after scoring first. It has happened numerous times in the previous seasons. I was watching the second half of the match, and the reaction from the Blasters coach and bench was worth the wait. 

This win is not of much use for Odisha, as they remain at the rock bottom (just one win form 9 matches). Blasters also have 1 win from their 9 matches, but they have one point more than Odisha. And this means that East Bengal is now promoted to the 9th place in the points table.

You are blaming the decline of Pakistani cricket on the administration. IMO, it is not that easy. Management is not the only reason why the performance is going down. I had already pointed out other factors in my previous posts. The poor quality of domestic cricket and lack of proper cricketing infrastructure are some of the reasons. The Pakistani first class cricket still remains in a very bad state. Unless the quality of domestic cricket is improved, I don't expect any miracles in the long term.

This thread was posted almost an year back and now the values would have changed a lot. As per OP, if we had invested $1 every day in Bitcoin from 2015 to 2020, then we could have ended up with a profit of $20,405 from an investment of $1,858. But back then, the exchange rate was $9,276 per coin. It has increased to $32,646.59 as of now. Since nothing else has changed, the equation becomes something like this:

A profit of $71,815 from an investment of $1,858. That is an ROI of 3,865%. 

OK.. so that would mean that Bitcoin was first mined on 3rd January 2009? Block number 0 is having a timestamp of 2009-01-03 23:45. And the next block (Block #1) is having a timestamp of 2009-01-09 08:24.

So the OP is indeed correct and we celebrated the 12th birthday of Bitcoin on 3rd January. @rdbase, you were wrong mate. BTW, even I was confused for a while. I was thinking that Block #1 was the first block that was mined.

By all probability, you need to wait for at least 6 to 12 months, even if you are willing to take the vaccine. Because the first few batches of the vaccine will be exclusively reserved for the priority population (i.e medical workers, elderly, policemen, ambulance drivers.etc). I guess that much time is enough for you, to decide whether you want to go for the vaccination or not. If there are any serious side effects coming from the vaccination, then you should be aware of it by the time your turn is up.

That advantage came little use for him, when he got whacked by KSI. Actually I am surprised that most of the posters consider this match to be serious. Common.. this is an exhibition match between one of the legends in the history of boxing and a complete amateur. If the fight is real, it will be all over in 30 seconds and it is not going to last even a microsecond longer than that. But that is not going to happen, as everything will be acted on the stage as per the script.

How many Bitcoiners own more than 1 BTC? Rpietila once calculated that around 350,000 do so. The link can be found below:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=316297.0

The calculation is around 6 years old and I strongly suspect that the numbers might have fallen further over the years. Even if we take the same figure, it means that only 0.005% of the world's population own more than 1 BTC.

I have to disagree. What happened in 2018 may not repeat this time. Because those who dumped their coins in 2018 are regretting about their decision right now. Now most of the cryptocurrency users are aware of this pump-and-dump cycle that repeats every four years. Therefore very few of them are going to dump their coins this time, even if there is a correction.

And BTW, it is too early to talk about correction and the prices going back to $20K. Because we are not yet done with the rally.

Sri Lanka in a lot of trouble against South Africa. They are at 98/6, with Wiaan Mulder and Anrich Nortje having picked up three wickets each. Mulder is just 22 years old and if New Zealand or England can convince him to get a passport with them, then he is going to be such a good asset for them. I wasn't expecting much from Sri Lanka anyway.. so not much surprised.

BTW, is anyone going to argue, if I claim that New Zealand is having the best pace bowling lineup right now? Kyle Jamieson is playing his 6th test match, and so far he has picked up 30 wickets at an average of 14.33. And they have enough depth in their squad, with bowlers such as Neil Wagner, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson and Matt Henry.

US based exchanges don't have any other option, but to delist XRP. Anyway, it is not going to have much of an impact. Although XRP was the third largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, its trade volume was not even in the top-10. Also, the XRP user base numbered much less than that of the other coins, such as Litecoin, Ethereum Classic and Bitcoin Cash.

Women's cricket has only the fraction of the popularity that the men's game enjoy right now. Hardly anyone attend the women's matches in the subcontinent. In countries such as Australia, New Zealand and England, they have managed to build small but loyal fan armies for the women's national teams. And the WBBL has been the biggest push for the women's game, for the last two decades. It has grown in popularity, and has become even bigger than the women's world cup.

It will be wrong to compare cryptocurrencies with exchanges. With exchanges, you always have a choice in using the Dex sites and P2P platforms. All that said, investing in XRP doesn't look a wise decision now. When investing in cryptocurrency, I always respect one of the golden rules - don't try to catch the falling knife. It's price has fallen from 4,200 Satoshis to less than 700 Satoshis in a matter of few days. It will go down even further in the coming days. You are going to regret, if you make an investment at this point.

In a strict sense, I may agree with you that it can't be classified as an all-out scam. But consider these facts - XRP had almost a 100% premine. The promoters still own somewhere between 80% and 90% of the circulating supply (either directly, or indirectly through firms such as the Ripple foundation). The promoters created an artificial scarcity, by keeping most of the tokens away from trading. This helped them to inflate the exchange rates, and the market cap. These practices would be illegal, if XRP was an equity and the trading was done through a stock exchange.

Actually I was expecting a sharp correction by the end of this year, but it never materialized. I guess rather than pulling out some of their coins to fund their vacations, most of the cryptocurrency users are staying at home due to the worsening COVID 19 scenario. Normally we witness some sort of mass selloff during the last two weeks of December every year. This time it didn't happened.

You can check the posts that I made about XRP many years ago. I have always tried to warn newbies about XRP. But the problem with scam projects such as XRP is that they are very good in spreading their propaganda through social media. It is easy to convince the new and inexperienced users to invest in such projects, promising sky high returns. Anyway, the results are there for everyone to see. The XRP prices have fallen from 3,600 Satoshis to around 800 Satoshis in just one month. I sympathize with everyone who lost their money in XRP, but you guys were warned.

The fact that they qualified for the main tournament itself should be a big achievement. I am not sure whether they will be able to progress from the group stage. Netherlands is an extremely strong team and they are likely to top the C group. Now the battle for the second position is between Ukraine, Austria and North Macedonia. If they finish at the 3rd position, then they go to the knockout phase.

BTW, I am thinking about making a bet in favor of Spain. For me, none of the other teams look capable of winning the tournament.