Cryptos are a currency so one of its use cases is for paying but maybe PI will skip the countries where crypto is illegal or illegal as a payment method. I heard that the one that is listed on XT dot com is a different coin and not the original PI coin but even if it's the original, we must still be careful and avoid it if possible. Ever since the start.

I already hear lots of negative feedbacks from them. I think that is enough to not patronize them. There are so many legit coins out there which have a better use case than just a payment method so why not go on them instead of PI? We are sure that they are more profitable but less risky at the same time.

Even this is not related to politics but still I want to give you some updates as you will watch in near future Indian government will have good relationship with these now rulers as well because back door diplomacy is already going on and now with the re-entry of the USA in this region due to regime change in Pakistan things looking positive for India as well because we all know India is big player in this region and USA wants to have them involved in all policies which is good, so hopefully Afghanistan Cricket Board will allow again their players to play in India their home matches because these could be more beneficial for them instead of playing into the UAE.

But, sadly we have one complaint about BCCI they are not doing anything for their neighbours which is surely not good specially for the Nepal because they have to done few positive developments for them as well which will increase their quality and performance in near future.

It is definitely a very hardcore approach to it I am not going to argue against that. However, you are sort of right as well at the same time. I feel like the best way to approach Bitcoin is to accept that it is not going to go away, it will always be around. Sometimes it gets low and sometimes it gets high but it is always around. As people who have been through a big pandemic recently, we could draw some parallels to it in the end as well.

I believe that it doesn't really have any prejudices at all, bitcoin purchase helps or hurts everyone equally and doesn't care if you are rich or poor. If you hold it and it goes up, we all make a profit, if we hold it and it goes down then we all hurt together at the same time. White, black, Asian or African, Muslim or Christian, it doesn't care.

I feel like the amount is also as much important as the type of the shill as well. Like if there is a low quality shill effort, even once is enough or maybe twice but that's it, anything more than that would be unacceptable here, but if you end up with high quality shilling, like the ones where people look like they vouch for how great it is and they are trusted members and all that, it could look like a hyped project and not a shilled one and people can talk about it for pages and pages whereas nobody would say anything about it.

So all in all, "shilling" is not always a bad thing, because if done right that may become just vouching and trusting a coin and that's going to be fine for most people here.

Even most of the time we have too much talk about Pakistan and their sporting system which is currently crap because they have no good domestic setup with no structure and facilities most of the time we have ad hoc system which can't provide any positive development which help players for improving their skills and have good quality just check their history they lost too many quality bowlers due to this all as no one care about them and mostly as they are having any injury then finances are also not available for giving them proper treatment or rehabilitation.

This all is possible if they have professionals who bring all latest technology and other facilities for the improvement of the game and players which must know if you want to compete with top level teams just one test series and now their all top bowlers are injured and out of the game for long time which is surely the worst thing happening to them.

I have to say that it's quite important to have some sort of base income or at least guarantee when you are starting an offline shop. I had a friend who started a bakery based on this, she had this amazing recipe for a cupcake but a tiny version basically and it went for like a week without refrigeration or anything, which allowed shops to sell it for a whole week as long as they do not put it on anything super hot, don't have to be cold but at least room temperature and usually it got sold quick enough.

She got an offer from a big chain, so she started it as an offline shop with the offer in hand. That way she knew what she would make in the long run and could calculate based on that. Nothing like that in your hand means you are just rolling the dice.

Unfortunately that causes a lot of trouble for them and that's the big difference. If you are poor and you can't wait 10 years and keep reinvesting every dime you can, then it means you should not invest.

Even poor people could change their mindsets, because if you grind and get in debt and just have a terrible horrible life for the next 10 years and still do not waver and invest small amount into bitcoin, you could get a lot better. I have done it, put 10% of my salary into bitcoin for past years, and made a good profit, not so great now but still a profit, and meanwhile I have been in debt, got a loan, paid it back, made credit card debt, got sick, paid hospital bills and many other things and still didn't stop investing.

Right now, main problem is why they are doing this all while things looking good for the cricket in Pakistan then why this all happening if they want to bring Naham Sethi they can wait for some time and then as his tenure ends then Shahbaz Sharif can bring his person as President of the PCB but now doing these all tactics mean they want to destroy all development and bring back PCB as lower point which surely going to help many other boards which never been happy about PCB and Pakistan going at his best in cricket.

Especially I was reading main problem was Ramiz Raja's statement about not sending his team to India because every time Pakistan has Nawaz Sharif or his family in control they want better relationship with India and others are not happy with this all which is the main reason behind this all quick change.

Sydney Thunder which is at the bottom of league table today done amazing stuff and won their first match of this season with style as they thrash Brisbane Heat by ten wickets which is impressive win even this is not going to help them for having improvement in their league ranking but still having first win like this is good for them.

They have few good aggressive hitters in their team, but their performance was not good in early matches, hopefully now with this big win they could be improved their quality and try to have better results in coming matches as well.

Now tomorrow we have another interesting match while Sydney Sixers will try to have their third win in a row or Melbourne Renegades will try to start their winning way again after losing their first match.

It was just a great scare tactic by the media and the timing couldn't be better. As soon as FTX thing happened there were a lot of chatter about Binance because that would really hurt bitcoin price and the market a lot and someone wanted to hurt it.

I wouldn't be able to figure out if it was FTX people or people behind FTX that wanted to get revenge, or was it some whale who had a lot of fiat and wanted bitcoin even lower, or governments who hate bitcoin because they can't control it. I cannot possibly know the main reason but it is obvious that we are not going to end up seeing anything that would be remotely close to what the reality is, we would just assume.

The idea to create a worthless token from nothing, and then offering people to work for it, which has literally zero value, and make it worth something by the bounty hunters is the worst part. If bounty hunters work very well, then it may worth something so their work would worth something and they will get paid accordingly, if they work terribly then it was just created and cost the owner nothing.

I am not going to work hard for someone who has risked zero dollars while paying me, to work for them. I am sorry but either they offer something tangible and worth something, or they can work themselves to promote their own token, makes no sense, I could give you a billion tokens out of nowhere that worths nothing too.

Well, they "lose" it for themselves, not for the market. Which means that if you get bitcoin, put it somewhere "safe" and then can't go back in, the bitcoin will be there but you won't have access to it so you lost it. So, it is basically true but you have to take the word for what it is and what it could mean, some words could have multiple meanings and you need to reconsider the situation. At the end of the day, we are talking about a world where things are not as clear as black and white.

I personally believe that most of the coins are already in exchanges, 50%+ must be in exchanges, meaning if all exchanges got together, they could seriously hurt the market or help it all by themselves, that is a bigger issue.

I feel like even a total 100% ban on crypto, including trading and even ownership, could still not kill bitcoin at all. I mean sure it could hurt it, wouldn't want that to happen if you asked me and I would rather see crypto flourish and grow bigger and El Salvador type of deals all around the world would make it so much bigger and I would rather have that.

But that doesn't mean that I would consider stop using bitcoin if my government stopped it. I mean the best thing to do right now is to promote it and tell our politicians to accept it and make it legal, but even if they ignore then I wouldn't stop, which proves that bitcoin is here forever.

It would be pretty difficult but it could happen. What we need to remember is that when bitcoin goes up that much, usually that means we are going to see stocks go up as well. Like Apple is worth 3+ trillion and so forth type of deal.

This means if bitcoin reaches 200k, it would be possible to be the most valuable thing and more valuable than all companies, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible for apple to be higher as well, that could happen too if the stock market goes up. However, as long as we are near the top that doesn't matter, it is important to keep bitcoin in the top 10 and as long as we can do that it's going to be fine.

We shouldn't consider it not going down anymore, but we shouldn't expect another FTX type of deal all the time neither. That happened and dropped the price and that's understandable but that doesn't mean that it is going to keep being like that forever neither, it would be pretty hard to keep it that way.

This is why I believe that we should be a bit more less expected of lower level stuff, could be a lot better in the long run. This is quite difficult to handle but we should be able to handle it in the long run. I personally do not expect another bottom because I am not expecting anything like FTX to happen again over and over, it would be pretty difficult.

It's not all about democracy it's all about system which is more important as we have in developed countries and in many other countries those are not near the democracy but going with strong system here in subcontinent culture is completely handled by few groups which are doing wrong things and holding major stakes which is giving them all power, and they are not bringing system or merit policies which are important, and we have only three cricket boards with strong system and fair policy ECB, CA and CNZ they are having the best things for their players and peoples.

All other boards and sports organizations are suffering badly due to ethical and political systems, and they are suffering into game as well because recently we have big dropped in South African quality with Sri Lanka is also suffering badly due to poor system West Indies is already near the end due to personal issues and having not merit policy and going with quota system.

I would say it's not as terrible as you make it out to be. I do not mean to say that they are not going to use it to destroy your privacy, but imagine the regular situation we are in right now without CBDC, is it any different in government world? Think about it this way, you have majority of the world using banks, debit or credit cards, loans etc, which means it is already tracked, only thing that you won't be tracked is cash, which could still technically be tracked, but harder.

This means the same with CBDC, even bitcoin can be tracked, so only way would be moving it to privacy coins, if you want to, and it won't be tracked, or just use bitcoin, so get CBDC and turn that into bitcoin and if you are not worthy of tracking, they won't.

People will be facing bitcoin as a challenge no matter how many times it has proven to recover. I promise you, we will recover from this as usual, it will go up, and I mean go up a lot, maybe over 100k maybe even over 200k, and then it will have a crash again and people will doubt it again. You will say it has gone down and up even bigger 4-5 times now, why doubt it again* And people will still doubt it, then it will go up and go down again and people will doubt it again.

When it is your savings we are talking about a drop is not easy to accept and move on, it takes a lot of knowledge and confidence in what you invest into in order to make sure it will recover.

I am pretty sure that no matter what happens to world economy, bitcoin will do a lot better. Why think like that? Because as a reaction bitcoin could be doing worse, and because bitcoin is doing worse there are companies in trouble that work within the crypto industry as well such as FTX bankrupting and all the bad news that has been coming out.

However, as the world gets used to the economy, we are going to have people adjust to new reality of the world and we are going to end up with something much bigger. I am not saying that people will have plenty of money to spend, but they will adjust their budgets more precise and it will not be a shock anymore.

Rates do not matter, because it means that the general economy would recover if the rates recover, and by 2024 I am pretty sure that the rates will be at a normal place, or even if it is high compared to past, we will at least get used to it by then.

However, none of that matters because when there is halving, bitcoin becomes more valuable, so even if the market is not recovered by then, it will still cause bitcoin to go up because it is now more valuable and the amount of bitcoin we mine per day will go down, meaning both less resources available but also higher price to make sure miners are happy. Both of those combined would make it go up no matter what type of market we are in, it will just take longer for it to show on the prices.