This problem existed since 2018. Unfortunately the honest bounty hunters are the hardest hit group. As a result of these cheaters, the per capita reward goes down drastically and in the end the honest bounty hunter will be left with $5 or $10 in return after working hard for 2-3 months. On the other hand, the cheaters use 20-30 accounts simultaneously and in the end they will easily earn $100-$400 from a single campaign. There is no 100% effective method to prevent this. For starters, you can limit the participation of social media profiles, which do more than three campaigns simultaneously.

The first cryptocurrency that I received was not Bitcoin. I had Litecoin in my wallet even before I received any Bitcoin. But unfortunately all of my Litecoin holdings are lost. I lost some of them when Wex.nz closed down in 2018. Whatever I had after that was gone in 2019, when Cryptopia was hacked. I still have some emotional attachment with LTC and now I regret my decision to keep my holdings in exchange wallets.

Giving unlimited handouts is a bad idea. Even oil rich nations such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar have realized this, and now they are slowly moving away from those policies. In case of Venezuela, when the oil prices were high the Hugo Chavez regime distributed all the budget surplus as handouts. The government never cared to setup a rainy day fund, so that they could use it in case the oil prices go down. In the end, the oil prices went down, and the government treasury was bone dry by then.

The Ashes, Border-Gavaskar, and the Trans-Tasman Trophy remains very popular as far as test cricket is concerned. But other series receive very little interest from the fans. I would rather recommend to limit any test series outside these three to just one match per tour. Increasing the number of matches anymore is not financially viable for the participating boards. Instead of playing additional test matches, they can use this time for T20Is or ODIs.

At least in my country (India) the government took steps to prevent this. There were some traders who did hoarding early on. But the authorities raided those shops and charged the shopkeepers with severe terms. Within a couple of days, the prices came back to the previous level. It has been 6-7 months, and the prices still remain at the pre-COVID level.

There is some disappointing piece of news from the ICC.

https://emergingcricket.com/news/ec-podcast/olympics-not-an-immediate-priority-says-icc-global-development-head/

According to the William Glenwright (ICC Head of Global Development), the plans to include cricket within Olympic games have been shelved. Earlier, there were half-hearted efforts from the ICC to include it in the 2028 Olympics. The Associate nations have reacted angrily, saying that they would have received government funding worth millions of USD every year, if cricket becomes an Olympic sports.

A lot of scamsters have entered in to the field of DeFi, just like what happened in 2018 with the ICOs and 2019 with the IEOs. First of all check whether the soft-cap levels are realistic or not. Most of the time it is not possible to get the real identity of the team, as they remain anonymous. Carefully screen the project and participate only if there are no major red flags.

Can't put it any better than this. As a result of the proliferation of populist regimes which handout welfare like there is no tomorrow, a large section of the population doesn't want to work. They want to sit at home and survive on welfare payments and food stamps. This is not something that can be encouraged. Governments need to understand that socialism is a failed ideology and socialist policies belong to the dust bin.

I was surprised when SRH won the toss and chose to field first. But now it looks as if David Warner made the right decision. The KKR bowlers did their job relatively well. And this time apart from Rashid Khan, the other bowlers also did their job in a satisfactory manner. Sandeep Sharma and surprisingly Vijay Shankar bowled very tidily. Natrajan was expensive, but he got the crucial wickets.

The same happened with coins such as Cardano (ADA), Tron (TRX), IOTA and NEO. None of these coins are now in the top-10 list, and many of those invested in them accrued heavy losses. ADA for example has lost almost 99% of its value from the ATH levels. I don't know how coins such as Chainlink and Polkadot will perform in the future. But at the current levels, they look extremely over-priced for me.

I would disagree with the Trump part. IMO, the decline started much earlier. Trump was in power for less than 4 years and China started dominating the African market at least two decades ago. But I agree with the first part. The Chinese thinking is very simple. They want to get hold of the rich natural resources in Africa and then they want to export the finished products to the same region. This is the main purpose of the road and belt initiative. 

Gone are the days when the West Indian batsmen used to dominate the IPL. There was a time when players such as Gayle, Pollard, Russell and Bravo could single-handedly lead their teams to victories. The bowlers nowadays know how to deal with them. Apart from Nicholas Pooran, none of the West Indian batsmen have impressed their critics this time.

This is not a permanent solution. The $2 trillion stimulus may keep the economy afloat for 4-5 months. But what will happen, in case the pandemic is not contained by then? IMO, spending money on handouts never works. Some of the recipients are going to use this money for productive purposes. But the vast majority are going to use it for unproductive activity. 

Too early to talk about the turnout. The majority of the Democrat voters are saying that they would refuse to go to the polling booths. Yesterday the CNN reported that close to 22 million have cast their postal ballots already. It is still a tiny fraction of the total number of ballots cast in 2016. According to some estimates, around 12% of the 2016 votes have been cast till now. Things won't be clear, until we have the final polling numbers.

Folks... Lord Tewatia has done it again. RCB was comfortably chasing the target of 178, with Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli at the crease. Tewatia got both of them dismissed in consecutive deliveries. Padikkal was dismissed of Tewatia's bowling, while he took a brilliant catch to dismiss Kohli. All of a sudden, we have RCB struggling at 103/3 from 103/1.

I got only one point. Useless Suryakumar Yadav got out, else I would have got 2 points. Anyway, something is better than nothing. I think the last time I got a margin point was almost two weeks ago. Today we were very close to a thrashing win, and still it somehow didn't happened. Tomorrow we have an interesting match between two unpredictable teams - RR and RCB. All the best everyone!

Kolkata Knight Riders did well to finish at 148/5. At one point, they were struggling at 61/5 after 11 overs. But Pat Cummins and Eoin Morgan staged a recovery, and they made 87 runs in the next 9 overs. That said, it seems like even that total was not enough to beat the Mumbai Indians. Right now they are cruising along, with Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock at the crease.

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Just one minor news. Marian Gherasim becomes the youngest player to take part in a T20I (14y 16d). He made his debut today, for Romania against Bulgaria. The only pic I could find is from 2017: https://www.facebook.com/CricketRomania/posts/congratulations-to-the-brothers-gherasim-dragos-13-marian-10-and-laurentiu-14-wh/1756278287716253/

The inclusion of Chris Gayle worked for KXIP, although they had to demote him to no.3 slot. I am surprised that they are still sticking with Maxwell. I don't understand this obsession with Maxwell. He has failed in every department this season. The inclusion of Chris Morris by RCB was also a welcome step. He is one of the best T20 players available. Another change I would like to see is the inclusion of Sandeep Lamichhane in DC. Also, it will be nice to have either Imran Tahir or Mitchell Santner in the CSK playing XI. BTW, anyone missing Lockie Ferguson in the KKR lineup?

You want to drop one of the best batsmen in the world, just because he had a couple of bad performances? He has scored 163 runs from 8 matches, which is not a bad statistic as far as T20 format is concerned. He scored half century two times, and on both the occasions RR won. Also, he did a decent job with captaining the RR squad, especially with such a young side.

Chris Gayle is back in the Kings XI squad and that helped them to end their losing streak. After five consecutive defeats, they will be having a victory today. Stupidity from RCB also helped. It was difficult to understand why they should send Washington Sundar and Shivam Dube ahead of AB de Villiers. That prevented the RCB batsmen from making a total in excess of 200.