I don't expect Biden administration to be friendly towards cryptocurrency. Already Janet Yellen has made some controversial comments on the subject of crypto. SEC will be under a lot of pressure to crack down on cryptocurrency. All they need is the slightest excuse. And the most worrying thing is that whatever happening in the US will be having a domino effect on the markets.

Although I am a supporter of the free speech, the last thing I want is people supporting radical political views to land here and post about mad conspiracy theories and threats. This forum has survived for 11 years, and it will be a great tragedy if the authorities would shut us down for some crazy posts by a few lunatics. So let's stick to cryptocurrency discussions and leave the fight for free speech to someone else.

If GOP wants to win the presidential race in 2024, then they need to win at least some of the crucial swing states such as Wisconson, Maine and Arizona. If they select someone like Ted Cruz, Mike Pence or Nikki Haley, then it will be difficult to attract the moderate vote. I won't be surprised if they go for a completely unorthodox choice, such as Madison Cawthorn or John James.
 

Institutions usually don't offload their assets that quickly. Although I would say that some of the institutional investors may not be looking to hold the coins for the long term, the vast majority would be willing to hold them for at least a few years. They do their investments in a systematic way. At the time of investment, they will be having a target. If that target is achieved within 6 months, then we can expect them to dump their coins within that period. On the other hand, if it takes more than 5 years, then they will hold the coins for that much time. But the most worrying aspect here is that they will be having a stop loss target as well. If the BTC exchange rates go below a certain limit, then we can expect a massive selloff.

Perhaps they don't care much about their reputation. For online gambling sites, it is not very difficult to make an exit scam and then open a new website with completely different design and URL after a few months. Many of them are based in various island nations and that makes it very difficult for users from the US or the European Union to pursue legal measures.

It has been 8 years. If the hard drive wasn't shredded to pieces, it would have rusted away and the metal components would have disintegrated. It would be impossible to recover any information contained in the hard drive under such circumstances. IMO, James Howells should stick to his usual modus operandi, i.e charging £250 per interview from the journalists and bloggers to whine about the lost treasure.

Transaction speed also depends on the blocks being mined. If a new block is mined within 30 seconds of your transaction, then your transaction may get confirmed within that much time. But a few days back, I had to wait for more than 1 hour (despite putting a very high transaction fee), because no block were being mined during this period. And those who put lower transaction fee had to wait for a long time, because a lot of transactions were in queue by the time the next block was mined.

Completely agreed. And for Trump, if he had any scant chances for 2024, all of that evaporated with the capitol riots. It was the last straw and now I don't even consider Trump or any of his children (including Ivanka) as potential candidates for the 2024 elections. Biden/Bernie will be 80 plus, and even if they are alive they won't be in a condition to contest the elections.

If Sachin or Dravid is interested, then it will be good. But among these three, only Sourav Ganguly has shown any interest in cricket administration. Dravid seems to be happy with his coaching responsibilities and he may not jump in to administration anytime soon. And yes.. Ganguly recently underwent hospitalization. But he was discharged after a few days and now he is doing fine.

I am also stuck with $50 worth of tokens for sometime. I want to convert it to ETH, before these tokens become worthless. But that process involves sending the ERC-20 tokens to an exchange, and then withdrawing the ETH back to my wallet. Two transactions need to be done, and in the end I will be left with only $35-$40 instead of $50. So for now, I have decided to keep the tokens as such.

It doesn't take much time and effort to create a shitcoin. You can spend $20 or $30 to build a website with fake credentials and for a similar amount you can plagiarize a white paper from one of the better known projects with help from freelancers. And then you can go for the creation of a bounty campaign thread here. In total, it may take less than $100 in funds and a few days of your time to plan and implement everything.

Before the match started, a lot of the analysts were pointing out about the huge gap in experience between the Indian pace bowlers and their Australian counterparts. Indian bowlers including Saini, Siraj, Sundar, Shardul and Natarajan were either making their test debut or just playing their 2nd or 3rd test. On the other hand, the Australian bowlers were vastly experienced, and all of them had more than 50 test matches each to their name.

Pujara is essentially a test batsman and that is one of the reasons why he never plays in IPL. One thing that almost everyone ignored is the fact that Pujara had hardly played any cricket before landing in Australia. Ranji season for 2020 was called off, and his last competitive game before the series was the 4-day match between Saurashtra and Bengal, which was played on 9th March 2020.

World Test Championship points table looks really tight. Right now, four teams are in contention for the final at Lord's - India, Australia, England and New Zealand. For India, the next series is at home and that gives them an advantage. I guess all the other teams are having away series. BTW, I would love a final between India and New Zealand. That looks probable as well, looking at the points table.

And finally.. India wins the match and the series. Such a historic win. A lot of people had written them off even before the series started. Michael Vaughan predicted 0-4 sweep in favor of Australia. I am sure that he will be having egg on his face right now. Now this series will present a lot of challenges to the Indian selectors. Are they going to stick with Rahane as the captain? What about Saini/Siraj/Natarajan. Who are going to be dropped for the next series when the regular players are available?

Just 10 more runs needed and Washington Sundar gets out. Australians may think that they still have a chance in this match. History is in the making at Brisbane. India still has 4 wickets and 4 overs remaining to reach the target. What they need to do is to make sure that no rash shot is being played. And most importantly, Rishabh Pant needs to keep the lion's share of the strike.

Just remember what happened to BTC when it hit the ATH level in December. It took quite a lot of time to breach the resistance level at $20,000. The prices touched $19,500, but was unable to move past $20K for almost a month. But eventually that occurred and after that, it was a smooth ride to $42,000. I am expecting the same to happen with ETH, if the ATH level of 2018 could be breached.

All sort of possibilities are there. I would just say one thing. If you have the necessary funds and you have the capability to stay invested for the long-term, then just purchase the coins irrespective of the market condition. Unlike the case with stocks and bonds, with cryptocurrency we can't accurately predict the market movements. So the best thing to do would be to accumulate coins when you have enough funds and then wait for a few years to get a good ROI.

Another 69 runs needed, with a minimum of 15 overs remaining. I can see the Australian bowlers getting more defensive. The target is perfectly achievable for India, but they should be careful not to lose any wickets. Nathan Lyon and Pat Cummins are bowling very economically, so the Indian batsmen may be looking to target the other two bowlers (Hazlewood and Starc). I have a feeling that Rishabh Pant may be able to give India a win here.

It is laughable to compare the two. PayPal adoption resulted in a massive bull run in the market, and the daily trading volumes went up by quite a lot as a result. PayPal is a mainstream business firm, unlike the case with Pornhub. I am not underestimating the impact from Pornhub, but the adoption by PayPal was like the breakthrough that Bitcoin was searching for so long.