They have a population of around 200 million, but that is it. The economy is smaller in size when compared to countries such as Denmark and Finland. But at this point, it will be suicidal to ignore any of the world nations, no matter how insignificant they seems. In the South Asia region, most of the governments have taken a hostile stance against Bitcoin. If Bangladesh goes the other way, then it is going to be huge.

Incredible win by India. Hardik Pandya once again made the difference, after a good knock by Shikhar Dhawan. The Australian pacers looked clueless, especially Daniel Sams and Andrew Tye. The spinners were impressive (both Swepson and Zampa), but the pacers couldn't support them. The only disappointment for India would be the repeated failure from Sanju Samson.

It was Jadeja who came to the rescue once again. Among the top-5 batsmen, only KL Rahul managed a score above 25. It was Jadeja and Pandya, who took India to a respectable score. Sanju Samson once again wasted a good opportunity, especially after getting a good start. Now his fans should not complain too much, if he is dropped once more.

The government can't function without taxes. If direct taxes are not there, then indirect taxes are required. Only a very few countries have managed to phase out taxes completely. Examples are oil rich countries such as United Arab Emirates, and island nations such as Bermuda and Bahamas. But these countries have other sources of income, and therefore tax revenue is not necessary.

Domestic cricket in India doesn't have the same standard as the county cricket in England, or the Sheffield Shied of Australia. One of the reasons is that national players seldom takes part in these tournaments. IMO, every major metropolitan city in India should have their own IPL team. Right now large geographies are not represented, such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Northeast.etc. Adding more teams would help in getting additional fanbase from these regions. 

It was never easy to manage so many players and supporting staff. But to their credit, the BCCI managed it extremely well. Not a single player tested positive for COVID 19. On the other hand, the Pakistan team is touring New Zealand currently, and several positive cases came up in their camp. The New Zealand government even warned the Pakistanis that they would be deported if the quarantine norms are not strictly followed.

India is definitely a better team as far as T20 is concerned and their players have the experience in playing in IPL. But let's not forget the fact that most of the Australian players are also part of the IPL. I am not expecting any whitewash with the T20 series. It is going to be much more competitive when compared to the ODI series, and I would even say that India is having the advantage.

It is actually very simple. Libra project is different from Bitcoin. Bitcoin was an original innovation, created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and first mined in 2009. On the other hand, Libra plagiarized around 95% of the idea (as well as the code) from Bitcoin and tried to dish out their own version of the cryptocurrency. It is similar to what the Chinese used to do two decades earlier. They purchased a couple of Su-33 fighter jets from Russia and then plagiarized it's design to create their own jet (J-15). To their credit, the Chinese exported far more pieces of J-15, than the Russians could ever do with their Su-33. Facebook wanted to do the same, with their Libra shitcoin.

It is retarded to say that cryptocurrency exchanges will replace banks. We need banks to deal with currency. Bitcoin on the other hand, is an investment asset and not a currency. You can compare cryptocurrency exchanges with stock markets, but not with banks. Banks are an integral part of the modern economic and financial system, and they will survive as long as humanity exists on this planet. 

Franchise cricket is the future. Within the next 4-5 years, I expect international matches to decline to a bare minimum and leagues such as IPL, BBL and CPL to take their slot. It doesn't make any sense to spend time on boring bilateral series, when we can have 6-team, 8-team or even 10-team franchise tournaments involving hundreds of players at the same time.

Look at football. Leagues such as the EPL are much more important than international "friendlies".

Injuries were expected after such a tight IPL schedule. Most of the players were playing more than a dozen matches each. Although we can claim that T20 is a less demanding format, playing so many matches in a row might have exhausted most of them. And these players didn't had any match practice for almost 6 months and they were suddenly thrown in to the glitz of IPL.

UK will be starting their mass vaccination program for priority population from next week onwards. I guess other developed nations such as the United States may also follow suit. The first batches of the vaccines are already booked by the developed nations and hopefully they will be able to vaccinate most of the priority population (medical professionals, elderly.etc) within the next 2-3 months.

By mid-2021, we can expect COVID 19 to get contained in most of the developed nations.

Today the authorities in the United Kingdom announced that they will start the mass vaccination program from next week onward. The richer countries have already made their pre-order for the vaccines and within a short period they will be able to secure enough doses to vaccinate their priority populations. Most of the developing nations are yet to make such orders. They will continue to suffer from increasing number of new infections and deaths.

A few days back there was this news from Venezuela that the army is involved in Bitcoin mining.

https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-army-mining-bitcoin-for-unblockable-income/

I don't know how successful their efforts will be, as Venezuela is not producing any mining equipment currently. They need to import their mining rigs from foreign nations such as China and South Korea (which again is going to be difficult, as sanctions and embargoes are in place). I assume that they have surplus electricity which can be directed to these mining farms, but even then capital costs can be very significant.

Most of the altcoin trade volumes comes from trading between altcoin-bitcoin pair. Only a minority comes from trading with fiat currencies. Under such circumstances, it is natural that an increasing market share of altcoins may negatively impact the Bitcoin market cap. However, during the current rally, Bitcoin has remained strong, with more than 62% market share (back in 2017, during the rally it was less than 40%).

India won the match by 13 runs. The credit should go to Pandya and Jadeja. They scored a lot of runs during the final overs, to get India to 300 plus. When the 5th wicket fell, no one would have imagined that India would end up with a total of more than 250-260. Also, credit goes to Natarajan, for picking up two important wickets in his debut for the national team.

Australia needs another 120 runs in 15 overs, at 8 runs per over. It is still achievable for them, but they have lost 5 wickets by now. Alex Carey and Glenn Maxwell are like the last recognized patting pair out there and if one of them gets out then the tail will start with Ashton Agar. But both these batsmen are gamechangers and India needs a wicket very soon.

Do you really expect the Chinese authorities to make investment in Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies? At that time, they treated the stash as proceeding from crime and similar to other non-cash assets the authorities followed the regular procedure and converted it to fiat currency. This is the same procedure which is followed by the other countries as well, to deal with "proceeds from crime".

I have to disagree with you. Laundering this many coins is actually harder than stealing them. Hacking an exchange can be done in a few steps, if the insiders are involved. However, moving this money and then converting them to fiat can be quite complicated. Staying anonymous during this step is next to impossible. The least risky strategy is to move the coins from one crypto wallet to another a few times and then mixing them. The conversion to fiat should be done after many years, after making sure that the trail can't be traced back. In many cases, the hackers don't have the patience for all this and ends up revealing their true identity.

I don't know whether we will have similar bull run or not, but we can expect it to last at least 3 months. The demand is looking robust right now and if the additional supply is completely removed from the market then $60K or even $100K may be possible within 2021. The current rally is supported by solid fundamentals, so it is very much probable.