LOL.. when I first purchased Bitcoin, the market cap was around $150 million. It has gone up by almost 700 times since then. Looking back, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would see Bitcoin prices going up by so much. When I joined this forum in 2012, I was quite ideologically motivated about Bitcoin. Getting such a huge ROI from my investment was never in my mind. But in the end, Bitcoin made me rich. If I had held on to all of my coins from 2012-13, then I would have been a millionaire already. But no regrets there. I am happy with what I got.

Here you are generalizing all the altcoins, and that should not be the case ideally. Some of the alts, such as Cardano and BNB are doing well, along with some of the newer coins such as Polkadot and Chainlink. But look at the established coins such as Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. All of them have gone down in exchange rate versus Bitcoin, when compared to the levels we had in 2020.

If you look carefully, you can see that the commodity prices are increasing almost uniformly (with gold being the sole exception). Crude oil, food, real estate.etc are at least 20%-30% higher than last year's levels. Hyperinflation is already here. The governments around the world resorted to unlimited printing of banknotes, giving the excuse of COVID 19 pandemic. Now the results are here for everyone to see. Purchasing power of fiat currency is going down, and that is what causing the sudden increase in food prices.

That is correct. The impact from institutional investment won't be visible in one or two weeks. The rally is going to occur over a period of many months, or even years, as the supply dried up at the market. The important thing to note here is to avoid panic selling, and to keep your coins safe and secure to protect them from hackers. I would say that for the best returns, you need to keep your coins for at least 4 more years. The longer you hold, the greater will be the profits. But obviously, I am not saying that you need to hold your coins till 2100.

A few days back, there was an article in the Mint. It claims that by imposing a hefty penalty over the existing 42.7%, and then forcing existing cryptocurrency users to sell their holdings, the government is expecting a windfall. Things like these would be abhorred in democratic countries and will be termed as wealth confiscation. But in today's India, where authoritarian policies by the ruling party is gaining increasing acceptance, all this will be treated as normal. The users are divided. Some of them want to take the fight to the supreme court. Others want to migrate to other countries which don't have these sort of draconian legislations.

You could have held on to your coins for a bit longer. I made a similar mistake. I was planning to purchase ADA in 2018. But two factors made me think otherwise in the end. First of all, the exchange rates were going down like a falling rock. ADA lost 99% of its value in just 12 months. I thought that it was going to end up dead pretty soon. Another important factor that weighed in was the difficulty in storing ADA. Back in 2018, there was no lite wallet available to store ADA. Everyone needed to install the horrible Daedalus wallet.

Friends in India are saying that they are watching the matches live on SONY TEN 1. If I am correct, last time there was no live coverage of the matches and everyone had to g through YouTube streams. But this time in India, the coverage is available in cable TV. I am watching the Peshawar vs Lahore match now, and it is always good to see the crowd back in the stadiums. If the board manages this competition well, then it has the potential to become the second largest franchise league in terms of revenue and viewership.

Just started watching this move around 30 minutes back, and so far it looks pretty unbiased. It is really surprising. The FBI would have wanted the movie makers to paint Ross as an evil individual who cared only about money. But the producers are trying to be as honest as they can with the subject. Still, some 1 hour 20 minutes remaining in the movie, and I don't want to make my final judgment yet.

Here are some of the quotes from the movie:

I completely agree with what amishmanish has written in the previous post. The regime in India has become autocratic, authoritarian and arrogant. If they don't like something, then they will simply ban it. They don't care about opposing voices. They believe that they don't need to listen to the opposition and the minority groups, because they are having a raw majority in both the houses of the parliament and unlimited support form the supreme court. On top of that, the opposition in India is a disorganized and confused lot.

It is an independent production and therefore I am hopeful that they will portray a neutral picture of Silk Road and Ulbricht. That said, it needs to be seen how much interest it will generate among the average moviegoers. This movie should have been released at least a year ago. It would have increased the chances of Ulbricht getting a pardon from Trump. But now Trump is gone, and he was probably the only president who could have considered a pardon for Ulbricht. Also, I am a bit worried about how they are going to portray Bitcointalk.

We are so close to the $1 trillion market cap, and I hope it will be achieved in this month itself. The reaction from the corporations and institutions remain overwhelmingly positive, despite the FUD being spread by JP Morgan and some of the other banking cartels. In the long term, Bitcoin will be posing a tough challenge to gold. Both these assets are being used as a store of value now. I believe that Bitcoin is superior to gold, because it can be easily transacted across the international borders, and can be hidden and protected against confiscation. 

LOL.. this is really funny. OP claims that Cardano is an outdated coin, when compared to "advanced" coins such as Ethereum. I am 100% sure that he hasn't compared the technology of these two cryptocurrencies. ETH is a second generation cryptocurrency, which uses languages such as Rust, C# and C++. On the other hand, ADA is one of the most advanced third generation cryptocurrencies we have in the market, and it uses an advanced algorithm written in Haskell. When ADA first came online, they faced a few issues such as storage. But those issues are resolved by now, and that is the reason why it is going up nowadays.

Maxwell remains one of the legends in T20 cricket, despite his poor record so far with the IPL. So that price tag is rather justified. But imagine this - 2.20 crore for Steve Smith, who is one of the legends in cricket and almost double that amount for the relatively unknown Shivam Dube. And some of the very good players have gone unsold till now - Karun Nair, Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Evin Lewis and Aaron Finch. BTW, I am not much surprised with the lack of interest for Hanuma Vihari and Kedar Jadhav.

Bidding war initiated for Chris Morris right now.. teams are going all out to purchase the player whom they have targeted. First the bidding war was between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore, but later other teams also joined in later. Finally he was sold to Rajasthan Royals for a massive 16.25 crore.

This story is not entirely reliable. But at least a section of the North Korean society has access to high-speed internet. For example, close to 150,000 North Korean citizens have permanent residency in Japan. These people do have access to modern technology. I strongly suspect they would risk doing cyber hacking while residing in Japan, but there is always a possibility of some of them traveling to DPRK and teaching native North Korean hackers how to make use of their skills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBfyIQbxXPs

The spat between CSA and CA is getting really ugly.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sa-vs-aus-tour-postponed-csa-lodges-official-complaint-against-cricket-australia-with-icc-1252099

I never had a good opinion about CSA for the last two decades and my opinion hasn't changed till now. They remain one of the most incompetent cricket boards out there. In two decades time, they managed to destroy a team, which once ranked as the no.1 side. The South African strain of the Coronavirus is a big concern all over the world and I believe that CA did the right thing by requesting to move the series to either Australia, or to a neutral venue. It is the CSA which remained adamant about this.

For how long you are going to say this? So let's assume that ETH 2.0 will be fully implemented by 2023. That means that we should stop transacting using ETH until then? With Bitcoin also we are facing similar issues. The root cause is known to everyone. But no one want to talk about it. Miners control the decision making with most of the cryptocurrencies and that leaves out 99.9% of the users. Just check the average ETH fee here:

https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_fee

The fee has remained above $10 for quite some time now. And the worst part is that the trends indicate that it will grow further in the next few months.

First of all, there is nothing like a safe investment option. Even if you invest in extremely low-volatile assets such as treasury bonds, there is a risk of default. The level of risk is many times for high-volatile assets such as Bitcoin. And it is one step further for the altcoins. But then, the general rule with investment is that you need to take the risk, if you want good returns. Take the case of Cardano for example. 12 months back, it was trading at $0.025 per coin. The current price is $0.93, which represents a ROI of 3620% in 12 months.

I have watched Glenn McGrath, Alan Donald and Curtly Ambrose bowl when I was a kid. And now I am watching Archer, Cummins and Bumrah. For me, the former bunch was much more skilled than the latter. They were exciting to watch and none of the current bowlers could deliver the balls the same way as they did back then. So I am going to disagree if you say that these two groups are equally talented.

This is really bad. I still remember the situation we had in 2018 and 2019, when the average transaction fee was around $0.10. It has increased by almost 200 times in two years. The worst affected are those bounty hunters, who need to pay a fortune to move their tokens to exchanges. BTW, I am curious to know what happened to the claim that ETH 2.0 will reduce the gas fee. ETH 2.0 was implemented many months back, and I am yet to witness any decrease in the transaction fee. I could notice an increase on the other hand.

My portfolio composition has remained almost unchanged, but I sold around 15% of my BTC in 2020. I wasn't facing any financial issue, but though that it was time to book some profit. And most of the selling was done before the PayPal-fueled rally. If I had kept those coins for a few more months, then I could have received 3x or 4x profits. Anyway, I don't regret much. Back in 2015 I sold most of my coins at $200 per coin. At least compared to that, this time I got a good price.