For the Chinese gamblers, Macau is nearby and accessible by high-speed train. On the other hand, Cambodia lies thousands of miles to the South, and is accessible only by air travel. But then there is a generalization that Macau is a highly expensive destination. So for low-budget gamblers, Cambodia can be an attractive destination, if they do the marketing properly.

One big issue with the new ICOs is that they bribe the ICO review sites, to publish favorable reviews related to them. And the inexperienced investors after reading these fake reviews will pour their hard earned money in to these projects and in the end lose all of their capital. Doing the research on your own is not always viable, as it is not easy to track the promoters, pre-ICO performance and the genuineness of the white paper. 

So far this year, Ethereum has gone up by around 400%, which is much more than what we witnessed with Bitcoin. Obviously the hype surrounding ETH 2.0 has been responsible for most of this spike. Now the exchange rates seems to have reached a saturation point, and we can expect a major correction period starting quite soon. So rather than $800, don't be surprised if you end up with $400 during the first quarter of 2021.

That depends on your financial situation. If you are running short on savings, or in case you have utility bills to take care of, then it may not be a good idea to wait for 3-4 years. Because right now Bitcoin is trading close to ATH levels, and we don't know whether the prices will continue to go up or whether there will be an extended phase of correction which can last for more than a year (similar to what we had after the peak prices of 2013 and 2017).

And this is the reason why Bitcoin user base has remained stagnant for the last 2-3 years. jcoin200 raised some very valid points. Volatile exchange rates, difficulty in obtaining BTC, wallet hacks.etc are some of the reasons why ordinary investors refuse to consider Bitcoin. Up to a certain point, solutions are available for all these concerns. But Bitcoin's failure is in taking these solutions to the common people, making them aware about it. And saying "If you don't like bitcoin, don't use it", is not really a solution.

Completely agree with your post. Stablecoins such as USDT goes against the very principle of cryptocurrency. The biggest advantage with Bitcoin is that you will be able to store money on your own. This is not applicable to stablecoins, because the exchanges are storing the money and they are issuing a token to you to represent its value. And as you have pointed out, many of these exchanges reject independent audit and therefore we don't know whether these stablecoins are backed up 1 to 1 or not.

If any of the larger Stablecoins go down, it can have a very bad impact on the exchange rates and adoption of Bitcoin. It is unfair, as Bitcoin has nothing to do with these stablecoins. 

The question is, how you are going to measure the performance of a project. Out of the 10,000 or so coins/tokens in existence now, only around 1%-2% are having real life usage. Remainder are used only for trading and for speculative investment. As long as they get pumped, these coins will be listed in the exchanges. And when the pump stops, gradually they will get delisted.

If you are researching on any topic outside the politically charged ones, then Wikipedia can be a reliable as well as easily accessible source of information. Because most of the editors in these sections are highly knowledgeable. But sections related to politics, history and religion are hopeless. The moderators have the power to reject references and some of them do that in a highly biased manner.

I have seen posts here claiming that the vaccine will cause infertility, similar to the rumors spread against the polio vaccine. A few years back, medical workers were attacked in Pakistan, after militants claimed that the polio vaccine is a weapon by the western nations to bring population control to Pakistan. Billions around the world have taken the polio vaccine, and none have reported this side effect. But unfortunately, it is quite easy to fool less intelligent and uneducated people.

A lot of negative comments against the vaccine. Let's not forget the fact that all of these vaccines have undergone Phase III clinical trials, which involved many tens of thousands of people. None of the vaccines reported any serious side effects. Those who don't want to get vaccinated are free to do so. But I request those people not to spread unfounded rumors regarding the vaccine.

Surprising that you haven't heard about the Big Bash League (BBL), which happens to be the second largest franchise T20 league in terms of viewership and revenue. And yes, some of the players such as David Warner are not participating in this league, because they are preparing for the series against India. But other international players are participating, including Aaron Finch, Shaun Marsh and Kane Richardson. On top of that, they have some very good overseas players, such as Carlos Brathwaite, Rashid Khan and Rilee Rossouw.   

I was an active editor of Wikipedia from 2004 until 2011. I have more than 100 article creations to my name and close to 10,000 edits. Initially, Wikipedia was a neutral organization which published articles solely based on facts. But things changed in 2010-11, when there was an organized campaign to get left-leaning individuals elected as the moderators/arbitrators. Things started changing from that period. Articles related to Geography, Botany, Astronomy.etc are still reliable. But those related to Politics, History, Religion.etc are heavily distorted by the leftists.

Well.. there is nothing wrong in allowing players to participate in franchise T20 leagues. But with the proliference of such leagues all over the globe, those who participate in them hardly get any spare time for national duty. Earlier there was a proposal from some of the boards, to limit the maximum participation for a player to a maximum of three leagues. But this has been opposed by the players association.

The methodology is really simple. There are thousands of altcoins available in the market and the promoters just need to plagiarize the code and white paper of any of these coins. Once this is done, they need to hype the coin using various bounty campaigns and then get it listed to one or two small-sized exchanges. The next step is to trigger a pump-and-dump cycle. Once this is done, the promoters can dump most of their coins/tokens and then exit the development. And this results in "dead and abandoned" coins, as mentioned by the OP. And the promoters can repeat the cycle multiple times, as long as there is demand in the market.

What happens to USDT in the future has nothing to do with Bitcoin. As most of us know, USDT is a token issued by the Bitfinex exchange, and is backed up with assets denominated in US Dollar. In short, rather than a decentralized cryptocurrency, it is a digital version of fiat currency in cryptocurrency format. So ideally if it goes down, Bitcoin should not be affected. But since it is traded in various cryptocurrency exchanges, I am assuming that there will be some impact.

These Central bank issued cryptocurrencies (such as Petro of Venezuela and digital Yuan of China) haven't been able to make an impact in the cryptocurrency market. In most cases, they are being used to evade sanctions and embargoes. And they are being used to replace fiat currency in international trade, with only limited usage in the cryptocurrency market.

All this drama comes to an end tomorrow, when the electoral college meets and select Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. For those gambling sites which hasn't processed the POTUS 2020 bets, this is the maximum they can delay the decision. Once Biden is elected by the EC, they need to close the bets and distribute the winning amount to all those who made their bet in favor of Biden (I am referring to those sites which hasn't processed the bets yet).

I don't think that he did the right thing by staying anonymous. This has encouraged scammers such as Craig Wright to claim the invention of Bitcoin as their own, and to scam millions of unsuspecting users with shitcoins such as BSV. If Satoshi remained active on this forum, this would have never occurred. Also, there exists differences within the core team on several issues, such as block size. If Satoshi was around, these issues could have been resolved.

Usage by criminals is not Bitcoin's fault. And the media always try to paint Bitcoin as the preferred currency of the criminals, although facts prove otherwise. A recent study by Elliptic found that around 1% of the Bitcoin transactions are associated with illicit activity, such as drugs trade or money laundering. And this proportion has been steadily declining, ever since 2013. 

If you look at the central contracts from the WICB, you can see that they are not that bad. But obviously WICB can't compete with the T20 franchises who are ready to dish out millions of USD for the top players such as Pollard, Fletcher and Pooran. And unlike the BCCI, they don't have the power to ban their players from foreign T20 leagues. If they do so, then the players will simply retire from international cricket and solely concentrate on franchise leagues.