Nothing is easy. Right now, Bitcoin is trading at $38,000 per coin, with a market capitalization of $706 billion. In order to reach $50,000, it needs to increase its market cap by another $223 billion. Do you really believe that this is a small amount? Just to give a comparison, in the NASDAQ stock exchange, only 6 stocks have a market cap higher than this amount.

With the lockdowns back in place, a lot of people will be having spare time to watch sports events. And remember that the match between KSI and Logan Paul resulted in more than a million PPV buys. If a fight between two amateurs can attract this many buys, then you can imagine the sort of revenue that Mayweather can bring. My only concern is that the match would be scripted and that would be injustice to the millions who purchase the PPV at such high rates.

This is the perfect reply. Satoshi never specifically said that Bitcoins can't be used as an investment asset. And I don't believe that there is really a difference in purchasing United States Treasury Bonds for investment and keeping BTC as an investment asset. Users are free to do whatever they want to do with Bitcoin. The OP doesn't have any right to dictate the terms to them.

The first USD banknote was printed more than 200 years ago, but USD became the reserve currency of the world only in 1945. Before that, USD was in the same position as Bitcoin is currently. And it is very difficult to imagine Bitcoin surviving for 100 or 200 years. Each and every technological innovation has a limited lifespan. It can be 10 years, or even 100 years. But eventually, some other innovation is going to replace it.

Wade is gone, with Natarajan getting his first wicket. But Labuschagne got his century before that. He got out for 91 in Sydney, but managed to get in to three digits this time. Now it is up to Cameron Green, to provide support for Labuschagne. After Green the tail will start, with Paine in such pathetic form. Australians must thank the quota policy of South Africa. Without the South African import, India could have whitewashed Australia in this series.

First of all I don't care much about these "experts" and "analysts" because their predictions are almost always wrong. And secondly, we need such drops from time to time, in order to get rid of the less serious investors. There are a bunch of noobs out there who are dreaming of becoming millionaires overnight. When Bitcoin drops by 20% or 30% in a day, these users will dump their coins and make their exit.

I have read about people purchasing cancer medications from dark market websites, as they can't afford to purchase them from normal shops. These medications are in most cases real and effective, mostly manufactured in countries such as Bangladesh and India. In the US/EU, these drugs are overpriced by a factor of 10x or 20x, due to reasons well known to everyone. In most cases, the users don't have a choice.

It is just not one new strain. There are multiple strains being reported from all around the world, and many of them are highly contagious. It was expected, as more than 90 million people are infected till date and the viruses are known to mutate rapidly. However, the good news is that none of the strains seems to be resistant to the vaccines. So the current bunch of vaccines should be able to contain them.

If I am not wrong, earlier there was a proposal for something like this. But there was huge opposition from the I-league teams, who don't want to admit that now they are playing in a second tier league. Even FIFA has written to the AIFF, about the difficulty of having two leagues at the top. To complicate the matters further, I-League contain some of the oldest football clubs in India and it is not very easy to ignore their demands.

Breaking the partnership between Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith was the big task for the Indian bowlers, and they managed to do that. Now the Aussies are in backfoot. Labuschagne is still there, but there is a chance that he will soon run out of support. Middle order batsmen like Matthew Wade and Tim Paine are in very poor form right now. I would have rather asked Cameron Green to bat ahead of Wade.

Sri Lanka had a horrible series in South Africa and therefore I would consider England as the favorites. But the latter is playing without some of their key players. Right now Sri Lanka is struggling at 22/2, with Stuart Broad picking up both the wickets (his test wicket tally has now increased to 516). Surprisingly, England has chosen two spinners in the playing XI (Dom Bess and Jack Leach).

He scored his century from 37 balls, which makes it the 13th fastest century in T20 cricket.

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/wi/content/records/305876.html

The record is still being held by Universe Boss Chris Gayle, who blasted a century from just 30 balls (Royal Challengers Bangalore v Pune Warriors, in 2013). Back then he scored 175 runs out of the RCB total of 263/5 in 20 overs. Aaron Finch went for 29 runs in 6 balls, while Ali Murtaza went for 45 from his 12.

Here are the latest stats, as of 14th January 2021.

Total market cap: $1,003,541,034,613 (-00.20%)

Bitcoin: $695,037,279,441 (69.258%)
Bitcoin forks: $13,346,534,819 (1.330%)
Stablecoins: $32,120,806,223 (3.201%)
Altcoins: $258,713,281,823 (25.780%)
WBTC: $4,323,132,307 (0.431%)

This is the change compared to my last post:

Bitcoin: -0.483%
Bitcoin forks: +0.140%
Stablecoins: +0.166%
Altcoins: +0.179%
WBTC: -0.001%

I am glad that at least some of the countries are taking steps to prevent the corporations from deciding who should win the elections. For more than a decade, the cabal of Google, Twitter, Facebook.etc have been trying to suppress the voice from anyone who doesn't belong to the ultra-left. Censorship is not the real issue here. I am concerned with selective censorship. Islamists and radical leftists who provoke violence are allowed to further spread their poison, while harmless posts from the other end of the spectrum gets deleted and the user gets removed from the platform.

It will not be very easy for Joe Biden to reverse the ban. If he does so, then he will fall into the trap that was set by Trump. In reality Trump isn't much concerned about Alipay or any other Chinese app. He wants to create a difficult situation for Biden, who received a lot of funding from the Chinese corporations. If Biden reverse the ban, then the GOP will accuse him of being pro-China. If he refrains from it, then his Chinese supporters would be angry.

Pucovski made one good contribution, and now he is gone too. Marcus Harris was dropped because of poor form, and he performed poorly during the warmup matches as well. But I guess Australia is running out of options now. Anyway, irrespective of the outcome of the 4th match, this series will put them in a very difficult position as far as the World Test Championship is concerned.

Agreed. Some people are not yet ready to agree that Bitcoin is primarily used as a speculative investment asset now, rather than as a currency. Bitcoin can be used as a payment medium. But rather than using Bitcoin directly, it will be better to use third party services such as BitPay for this purpose. Third party processors can resolve the issue of high transaction fee and delays in getting confirmations.

This is surprising, because the article appeared on Fox News (I came across it for the first time last month) and I never thought that it was a promotional campaign. Anyways I was wondering why he is taking a huge risk in converting half of his salary to Bitcoin (the article claims that he made the request in 2019, when the Bitcoin exchange rates were quite suppressed).

Sundar can bat, but he is not as good as Jadeja in the batting department. So essentially India is going with two spinners for the fourth test match, which I believe is a bad idea. They could have used the slot to include another pacer (probably Natarajan). The Indian team needs to be careful here. If they win one more match, then they can create history in Australia.

So the price was $28,000 per coin when you made the purchase, which means that you received 0.42 BTC in your wallet. You don't seems to have a plan on what to do with these coins yet. First you need to decide whether you want to go for short-term, or long-term investment. In case you don't want to hold your coins for too long, then you can set your stop-loss target as well as the target for profit booking.