Just in : Australia tour of South Africa is postponed due to COVID and NZ automatically became first team to qualify in WTC finals.
Really happy for New Zealand and they deserved every bit of it. The final of CWC 2019 was such a disappointment. New Zealand lost the super over due to some technicalities and help from the umpires (such as granting 5 runs from the overthrow). Hopefully they can make up for that by winning the inaugural edition of the World Test Championship. Would love to see India vs New Zealand final at Lord's. The beautiful surroundings looks stunning in this Gawadar Cricket Stadium in Pakistan ....
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If a bank wants to not work with trump, that is fine, that is always fine, if a cake shop decides not to bake for gay people, then a bank can decide to not work with trump. Twitter CAN ban him, it is not freedom of speech issue, it is literally within their rights to not work with anyone they want. This is free market.
The difference here is that the cake shop which refused to bake the gay anniversary celebration cake was fined a huge amount and was forced to declare bankruptcy. On the other hand, the bank which terminated Trump's account will never face any action. I am not justifying anyone here. For me, both the actions are wrong. My issue is that when the left-wing nuts harass someone, it is regarded as a "revolutionary move" and when someone from the right-wing does the same all of a sudden it becomes an expression of xenophobia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_v._Oregon_Bureau_of_Labor_and_Industries |
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In 2020, their economic growth was minus 10.3% which is the exact opposite of their GDP in 2015 because they are the fastest economy compare to China way back then according to this article. But it is not impossible for them to gain back their name as the fastest growing economy followed back by China if they succeeded on neutralizing the spread of COVID-19 to ensure that it'll happen within the year 2021. Certain sectors such as IT were not affected by the pandemic and they are contributing to the growth right now. But most of the other sectors, such as manufacturing and agriculture are showing a negative growth. On paper they may be able to show that the GDP grew by 2.9% from the 2019 levels. But this growth is very uneven and until the pandemic is contained the economy will remain in a precarious state. |
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Thank you - laughed!  Perhaps someone told you such a story ... but there is one caveat - I myself come from those lands and I have relatives living there in different cities ... And now about reality - visit Khabarovsk and Novosibirsk, Tynda and Abakan, the same Chita and the surrounding areas - there you will be surprised by the presence of a huge number of citizens with typical features of indigenous peoples ... But they speak CHINESE and they are Chinese ! In those areas, local women prefer and marry Chinese, and a Chinese couple arriving to "work" in the Russian Federation, six months later, transports their entire family there. Felling of hundreds of thousands of hectares of taiga is carried out by Chinese loggers, for Chinese companies! Thousands of hectares of agricultural land are given to Chinese farmers for a period of 49 to 99 years! This is called "special zones" where the legislation of the Russian Federation does not even work! And the expansion of Muslims is the Caucasus region, the south of Russia, the central regions, the Krasnodar Territory and Moscow - these are their territories! PS Type in Google the query "Blagoveshchensk video Chinese" - a city in the Russian Federation which has become almost Chinese in 10 years Well.. personally I have never travelled to Siberia, so I can't confirm any of this. It is true that Chinese agricultural enterprises have leased out large land tracts in that part of the world. But the overall numbers are not large, as reflected in the official statistics. As per most estimate, there are less than half a million Chinese immigrants in Russia, accounting for less than 1/300th of the population. On the other hand, the official stats itself claim that there are 10 million or more Muslim immigrants from countries such as Azerbaijan and Tajikistan living in Russia, with heavy concentrations in Western part of Siberia (Yugra and Yamalo Nenets especially). BTW, just noticed that you claimed once that you live in Ukraine. In my country (Ukraine) prices for vegetables and basic foodstuffs have increased. At the same time, meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, ...) and fish (salmon, trout, salmon, and local fish) almost did not change in price.
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Welcome to the 12th century.
Well.. that's what some of the illiterate ministers of the present Indian government are thinking. But the problem here is that irrespective of what they want to believe, we are living in 21st century. Now we have air travel between the nations and internet. Authoritarian decision making doesn't work anymore. Those who can afford will leave for other countries, which are having more intelligent policies on cryptocurrency. A flight ticket from India to some of the GCC nations can be obtained for as little as $100. In the end, the Indian government will see a reduction in potential tax collection, and the nation will suffer as a result of brain drain of educated people. Anyway, I guess the present government actually want the second part to happen, since educated people seldom vote for them. |
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Many thanks to Lightlord for providing as with such a good bonus!!!
I received 5% bonus for Week 105, 3% for Week 106 and 2% for Week 107.
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This will surely be another blow to Cryptocurrency Users in India and knowing their love for Technology is really great, it will surely be a hindrance to people who uses Cryptocurrencies as a source of their income. India has a lot of developers that can create a great ideas which can evolve into great platforms but seeing the Indian Government trying to ban the creation of Digital Currencies, it would really be a hard decision for Indian users to further pursue their love of Cryptocurrencies.
It is a big irony that India, which has produced some of the big names in technology such as Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Shantanu Narayen and Arvind Krishna killing technological innovation because the government feels that the national currency can't withstand competition from Bitcoin. No wonder that India is the country that is most affected by brain drain of educated individuals. When illiterate people run a government, what else can the skilled ones do apart from migrating to somewhere else where their skills are respected? |
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Here are the latest stats from 1st February 2021. Total market cap: $1,017,926,021,984 ( +6.13%) Bitcoin: $632,262,676,006 (62.113%) Bitcoin forks: $11,622,485,185 (1.142%) Stablecoins: $36,761,487,313 (3.611%) Altcoins: $333,330,349,944 (32.746%) WBTC: $3,949,023,536 (0.388%) This is the change compared to my last post: Bitcoin: -1.187%
Bitcoin forks: -0.085%
Stablecoins: +0.056%
Altcoins: +1.211%
WBTC: +0.004%Here are the latest stats, as of 24th January 2021.
Total market cap: $959,141,293,250 (-4.42%)
Bitcoin: $607,130,858,346 (63.299%)
Bitcoin forks: $11,761,804,293 (1.226%)
Stablecoins: $34,100,598,007 (3.555%)
Altcoins: $302,462,641,325 (31.535%)
WBTC: $3,685,391,279 (0.384%)
This is the change compared to my last post:
Bitcoin: -5.959%
Bitcoin forks: -0.104%
Stablecoins: +0.355%
Altcoins: +5.755%
WBTC: -0.047% |
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Russia is of interest to China as a resource appendage and a temporary "keeper" of the historical Chinese territories. For more than 10 years, the southeastern part of Russia has been actively assimilated by the Chinese population, millions of hectares of land have already been leased to China for a 49-99 year lease ... China has never been a "friend" of Russia, it has been and remains a silent neighbor who just does not always speak that "Russia is a criminal."
Ridiculous. There are Chinese migrants in East Russia, but they are vastly outnumbered by Muslim immigrants from countries such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Also, the Chinese birth rate as of now is much lower than that in Russia. Birth rate in China remains one of the lowest in the world. The real demographic danger for Russia comes from former Soviet Muslim republics and not from the Chinese. And regarding the territorial dispute, it was resolved 2004. The current boundary was accepted by China, after Russia ceded a few small riverine islands. |
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I agree, it's a great way for people to find job opportunities outside of their own country. There is no language barrier once you learned English and also geographical borders are not going to be an issue as everything is done online. Maybe some special crypto courses for people in Africa could help them to take advantage of the new opportunities.
Who is going to sponsor these crypto courses? If someone wants to learn a new skill, then all the material is readily available online in YouTube and other sources. The only thing to remember here is that most of the material is in English and therefore they need to have a good command of that language in order to learn the skill. Gone are the days when you had to spend a fortune to get yourself educated. Nowadays a lot of educational material is available for free and all that you need is a 3G connection and a smartphone. |
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There are already a good number of vaccine on the market. How they are going to figure out which one will have a better result? Specially when the virus is evolving, and people need to take 2 vaccine shots, with a 2-4 week pause between them. And not to forget that pharmacists always adding and improving something in vaccine. With all that variables, how to get a clear result from vaccination?
Phase III trials have been completed for all of the approved vaccines, and their efficacy is known to everyone now. The rates for various vaccines measured from the Phase III trials are as follows: Pfizer/BioNTech - 95% Moderna - 95% Gamaleya - 91% Novavax - 89% Sinopharm - 79% AstraZeneca/Oxford - 70% Johnson & Johnson - 66% Sinovac Biotech - 50% Many of the countries are using more than 1 vaccine, depending on the availability. But as you can see from the list above, after the vaccination, there will be anywhere from 50% to 95% reduction in the new cases. |
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This is how Binance is using CoinMarketCap to manipulate the cryptocurrency market. Actually I was expecting something like this ever since Binance purchased CMC in 2020 for $400 million. Back then, a lot of people were asking why Binance would pay this much for a very simple website. I guess now everyone has got the answer. They will use CMC to manipulate the market, just like what they are doing with WallStreetBets. BTW, I don't think that the market cap of $25 billion, which is being claimed by CMC is true. If you take out 99% of the coins from active circulation, then the remaining 1% will be having an inflated valuation. And for calculating the market cap, they will use 100% supply instead of 1%.
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When will these guys realize that participating in a bounty is not the only way to get your hands on some cryptocurrency? There are dozens of options out there, and all that you need to do is to take out some research. I feel bad when guys claim that they have worked hard for 100-200 hours and even after that the bounty campaign never paid them.. That's how the things work with bounties. Well.. you guys can check these options... in case you don't want to do bounties anymore: 1. Promote advertisements from A-ads or Cointraffic, if you have a website or a blog. If you don't have a blog, then create one. It doesn't take much time. 2. Do freelancing and earn BTC or ETH. Check websites such as Crypto Jobs List or even the services section of Bitcointalk for jobs which are suitable for you 3. To start with very small amounts, you can try microjobs and some PTC websites. adBTC, Coinpayu are examples. 4. If can't find a good job that pays you in BTC, then do freelancing for fiat and then convert the earnings to BTC. You can try Elance or freelancer.com. If you are having very basic skills, then you can try sites such as Mircoworkers and Cloudfactory. 5. The last option is to participate in faucets and giveaways. Check the Micro Earnings section of this forum for more details: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=212.0It took the trouble of posting all this, because I was in a similar position 9 years ago. I want to help the inexperienced users. But if you guys don't have the patience to read all this, then it is of no use. |
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It is the same pattern that we observed with the ICOs first and then again with the IPOs. Now it is the turn of DeFi. If people are investing in these sort of project without any second thought, then we can confidently say that the money is not earned in a rightful way. I guess most of the users may be hackers or scamsters, who want to mix their coins so they can cash them out without anyone tracing the transactions.
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No team can be more inconsistent than Pakistan and that is the reason why I have never made a bet in their favor during the last 10 years. On the other hand, whenever a Pakistan vs India match occurred during the ICC events (such as the ODI world cup), I have always made a bet in favor of the latter (despite Pakistan having very attractive odds). And every single time, I won the bet.
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10 years? That seems to be overly extreme for merely owning an asset lol. Anyway, if you're from India, you pretty much have 2 choices. - Simply sell it and wait for the illegalization to be lifted.
- Sell your holdings that has ties to you(exchanges, etc), and though I'm not telling anyone to commit crime, people could still simply accept bitcoin through anonymous services and such and simply hold them through their non-custodial wallet. Of course, people should be really cautious as a simple mistake could get them caught.
- Optional: move out of India lol.
For most of the ordinary cryptocurrency users in India, there is only one option and that is to sell their holdings immediately without any consideration about the returns or tax implications. Those with large size holdings will be worst hit, as they need to shell out almost half of the returns as tax. Moving out of India is an option that the richer investors can consider. Many of the Caribbean nations will provide you with a passport in exchange of a donation amounting to $100,000 to $250,000. But for the 99% of the investors who are unable to afford that, the options are limited. |
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Let me summarize a bit.
Advantages of Bitcoin:
1. High potential returns
2. Storage is relatively easy
3. Easily transferable, and can be hidden from the authorities if required. So protected against confiscation.
4. Possible to stay invested anonymously
5. Protected against inflation
6. Accepted as a payment in a large number of online stores
Advantages of gold:
1. One of the most trusted assets around the globe
2. 100% legal
3. Protected against inflation
4. Liquidity is good
5. Can be stored in digital form (ETF) as well as in physical form
6. Can be stored discreetly
Disadvantages of Bitcoin:
1. Not 100% legal everywhere
2. Opposition from government authorities
3. Requires at least basic technical knowledge, in order to store and transfer BTC
4. Susceptible to wallet hacks
5. Lack of liquidity
6. High volatility in exchange rates
Disadvantages of gold:
1. High tax rates on profit
2. Susceptible to confiscation and robbery
3. Lack of anonymity
4. Not suitable for short-term and medium-term investment
5. Requires a demat account (for ETF) or a bank locker (in case of physical gold)
6. Not easy to do international transfer
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Even though every country eventually has their own national cryptocurrency, it will not be able to compete with Bitcoin. Especially to kill Bitcoin,
because many people already like Bitcoin. Many coins have been created to beat Bitcoin, but nothing worked. Then regarding the major governments
will ban Bitcoin, it will never be possible as long as there is an internet network. Because there are always ways to make Bitcoin transactions, even
though the government prohibits them.
There will be a very noticeable impact on the market, if the governments try to ban Bitcoin. Don't forget the fact that the recent bull run was triggered by institutional adoption of Bitcoin, especially from PayPal. If the government imposes any sort of restriction, then these institutions are going to pull out immediately, resulting in a bloodbath at the market. Bitcoin will exist, but the global adoption will be severely affected. |
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Such a one sided match... Anyway, congratulations to Manimaran Siddharth. Now he has got the attention of the selectors. And this couldn't come at a better time for him, as the IPL auction is about to take place in a few days time. Recently a lot of T20 spinners have emerged from Tamil Nadu, and Siddharth is just one of them. We already have Murugan Ashwin, Varun Chakravarthy and Washington Sundar as IPL stars.
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Anonymous debit cards, that can be loaded with cryptocurrency are a thing of the past. I remember a lot of options being available in 2014 and 2015, but things started to get tight from 2016 onwards. The FinCen cracked down on providers of such cards and made KYC mandatory for physical (plastic) cards. You may still find such cards in sites such as Bitify, where they use stolen/hacked KYC information. But going for that option is extremely risky. And I haven't heard about Ezzocard before. So be very careful before using them. And please go through this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3956792.0 |
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