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281  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: What are options to mine a profitable crypto on my computer. on: March 17, 2022, 05:48:37 PM

When was the last time you heard any update about MASS? I dont think there is any announcement about any development since it was launched thats why this coin is very much down and not going up. MASS team need to work on this aspect seriously.

Yes you are right we heard nothing about MASS development from its team and thats one of the biggest mistakes dev team make these days aka ignoring the importance of announcement. There are many token who only because of there announcements on social media are making progress despite the fact they are just average tokens.
282  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 17, 2022, 05:25:56 PM
The T20 leagues are becoming game changer for players that haven't played any international cricket so far. Pakistan has included two new faces for ODI and T20I against Australia and both are picked from PSL 2022. For t20 and ODI boards are only focusing on T20 leagues performance.

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Wicketkeeper-batter Haris was a destructive hitter for Peshawar Zalmi during the Pakistan Super League, scoring 166 runs in five matches at a hugely impressive strike rate of 186.5

And left-arm spinner Asif took eight wickets in five games for the Multan Sultans, bowling impressively for much of the PSL.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2538751
283  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Its time to go in crypto lets leave fiat cutrency on: March 17, 2022, 10:24:55 AM
We can't get into cryptos, since cryptos are not yet used in every country in the world. Most stores and merchants don't use them yet, maybe it's because of the high price volatility, but they could use USDT as a starting point, I think it's feasible.
In my opinion, the use of crypto currencies will obviously increase in the future and at some point people will abandon fiat currencies, not completely but partially.
The war has really had a serious impact on the market, but I hope that the crypto-currency market will be revived once the war is over.



Yes thats very much correct and we need to be realistic about its usage for daily living. BTC has issues like scalability and price volatility thats why not many merchants are willing to accept this as payment method. Not to forget governments are showing zero tolerance towards its adoption because of there zero control over decentralization.
Despite all odds and opposition, BTC still has grown to reach price of 67k$ and we cant say that in future its adoption will not increase.
284  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 17, 2022, 10:18:32 AM
England   -   West Indies

England drew the first Test against the West Indies. But in the second match they will not want the same result. They will definitely want to win this match. They are playing with the goal of winning Ebgong. Seychelles England lost 3 wickets for 244 runs on the first day. At the end of the day, England lost Dan Lawrence's valuable wicket. Joe Root is unbeaten on 119 runs. England will be in control of the match if they manage to score 400 runs in two sessions tomorrow.

Dan Lawrence was unlucky to bowled out on 91 runs and missed his century. Same type of bad lucks were seen yesterday by Babar Azam and Shafique when they were out on 196 and 96 runs. First test b/w WI and England ended in a draw and performance of both team is very much equal in that match. We need to wait till WI innings to see who will dominate this game.
285  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 16, 2022, 07:21:27 AM

According to this article 7 Indian players are going to participate, safe to say other foreign players are also taking part. Seems good approach.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/hanuma-vihari-among-seven-indians-to-play-in-dhaka-premier-league-101647331419131.html


That's an interesting news, my understanding is that BCCI did not allowed his players to take part in any other foreign leagues. Indian test team member Hanuma Vihari is also among these 7 players that signed for DPL teams. My question is that are these 7 players going with BCCI consent?
Regarding other foreign players, "Besides these seven Indians, veteran Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Hafeez will play for Mohammedan Sporting while Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza will play for Shinepukur."
286  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: March 16, 2022, 07:11:44 AM
India Women VS England Woman

Shortly after, the England women's team will play against the Indian women's team. I thought the England women's team was strong. But they have played 3 World Cup matches and lost all three. We do not expect such a poor performance from a team like England. However, the situation in India is quite good. They have won two of the three matches. Will India women's team be able to defeat England in today's match? What do you think.

That was a good win for England-Women after losing three of there opening games. Indian-Women just made 134 runs in in 36.2 over, nothing noticable in there batting, Smriti Mandhana was top scorer with 35 runs. From England side Charlie Dean took 4 wickets in 8 overs and was also women of the match. England lost 6 wickets to chase this small total of 134 runs.
287  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 16, 2022, 07:05:50 AM
Not an easy target that's why it would be epic if they manage to cross the line.

Usually draw are considered bad if you're playing at home but Pakistan is in very tricky situation so even draw might look like a win here. This duo is important but they have to start their inning again on 5th day, let's see which pak team show up at the work today.

Australians have finally got the man i.e. Abdullah Shafique just before the lunch, he scored 96 runs on 305 balls. At lunch Pakistan need 252 runs in 62 overs, 4 runs per over. The way they are going I am sure Pakistan like to draw the game since they wont take risk of playing fast and losing wickets. The match has gone really interesting now.
288  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: March 15, 2022, 06:03:54 PM

Also Pakistan management will have to answer the tough questions as to how did the team collapse so soon despite having the home advantage, and one reason I can suggest is Pakistan became overconfident after drawing the first match, what other reasons can you’ll think for their collapse.

One of the most over confident guy in Pakistan team is imam ul haq. He was selected in team initially purely on nepotism as his uncle Inzamam-ul-Haq was chief selector at that time. After first test imam gave too many statements like he is new Don Bradman of the era. See the result in second test yourself.
289  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 15, 2022, 05:56:04 PM
Babar-Abdullah Shafique duo pulling their version of Dravid-Laxman here against same opponent Australia. If they successfully chase down this mammoth total or pull out draw from this situation then this would dent Australia's reputation and ego and increase Pakistan's stature more in the Test cricket. We shouldn't forget that in recent time Australian team failed to close the game when opponent bats in 4th inning.

3 recent iconic test match, where Aussie failed royally
- Headingley test against England, English were 9 down (Ben stokes).
- SCG test against India, 2 injured batter Vihari-Ashwin pulled off great escape
- Gaba test against India, well everyone knows what happened there.

- Karachi - Huh Result in progress

Karachi test is very much dependent on Pakistan current partnership between Abdullah Shafique and Babar Azam. Right now every Pakistani wanna see dots balls from both those batsmen, shafique has scored 71 runs but it took him 226 balls to reach there.
Pakistan will definitely like to draw this game as they won't change target of 500 runs. Let's see who achieve his target.
290  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 13, 2022, 04:07:08 AM
I really don't understand why PCB is trying to make this test series not memorable by just encouraging them to not produce a result. I really expected something different from the first test but I am quite disappointed till now to see what has transpired in the test match. Seems like another draw is on the way. Unless of course, something really unbelievable happens.

They probably went on the defensive. And as far as the points table in World Test Championship is concerned, a draw is more beneficial when compared to a loss. But it is sad to see that they don't have any faith in their own pace bowlers. They do have some very good pacers, such as Shaheen Shah Afridi. They could have prepared a neutral pitch and tried to get a result out of this series. If the matches are so boring, then it will negatively impact their future revenue potential, as the TV viewership will go down.

PCB is only interested in successful conduction of this series that's why there more focus is on security and management issues not on pitches. Pakistan is not a contender for World Test Championship so I don't think they are eyeing in that aspect.
We have to see how Pakistan respond to Aus first innings which will definitely be around 450/500. After very time I am seeing such lengthy test innings.
291  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: March 13, 2022, 03:54:32 AM

The match between Australia Women and New Zealand Women was expected to be a big match, because they are the top teams to win the ICC World Cup. Unfortunately this time this match looks like the low scoring match for New Zealand Women. Australia Women have managed to score 269/8 in 50 overs batting first. Now New Zealand have scored 41/5 in 12 overs.

It was supposed to be tough match but its very much one sided match. In reply to Aus target of 269 runs, NZ are 121/9 in 29 overs. Every Aussie bowler has picked wickets, top wikcet taker is Darcie Brown 3/22. Amy Satterthwaite was the only one from NZ to score some runs, she scored 44 runs rest there is nothing from NZ batting.
292  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 12, 2022, 12:28:13 PM

In the last test match between these two countries, we saw that Pakistan scored big in the first inning and the Australians responded equally well.
Now in this test match, it's the other way around. Australia will make a big score in the region of 400 - 500 and it will be the test of Pakistani players as how they will bat in the pressure. No matter how good the batting side you have, there is always a pressure when you are chasing a big score.

On stumps day 1, Aus are 251/3. Khawaja is still not out on 127. Definitely Australia will score somewhere around 400-450 and Pakistan will have to chase down. Today was Australia day and Pakistan need quick wickets if they wanna remain in the game.

One important thing I noticed in today's game is that there is hardly any spectator in the stadium despite the fact its holiday today.
293  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: March 12, 2022, 12:11:55 PM
The only ODI match going on right now is between Namibia and UAE, as a part of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2. Namibia looks like in a difficult position, as their opponents made 348/3 batting first. They are now at 71/2, with Craig Williams at the crease along with Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton. A win in this match would mean that UAE will be in a comfortable position as far as the League is concerned. They will be having 16 points from 14 matches, which would mean that they will be at the 2nd position in the table. 

Yes not much ODI n T20 right now. UAE recently qualified for the ICC T20 world cup 2022 and in ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 2019-2021/22 they are at number 3. In ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 2019-2021/22, mostly teams are made up of expats like Oman, UAE, USA and they are dominating the table whilst teams that have 100% native players like Namibia, PNG and Nepal are way down in points table.
294  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Billionaires and Bitcoin on: March 12, 2022, 10:55:48 AM
I believe you are referring to the recent sanctions of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich because of Russian-Ukriane war. Bitcoin can be a life boat for them. If you are careful with your privacy, the government won't be able to track your bitcoins easily.

Well it's a two edge sword bitcoin on one hand provides you safety and privacy but on the other hand if you lose you bitcoin be it 1$ or billion dollar worth you can't recover it. So if you are moving your billion dollar worth investment on bitcoin blockchain then keep this thing in your mind.
Bitcoin till date is mostly used for asset storage. You still need to move to Fiat for your daily living.
295  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 12, 2022, 10:38:11 AM


The pitch doesn't provide any sort of support for the bowlers. Once again, this is going to be another boring draw. Usman Khawaja is getting close to a century, while Steven Smith is nearing his half-century. A total in excess of 400-450 looks very much possible for Australia, but they need to bowl out Pakistan for something less than 300 in order to win this match. And given the pitch conditions, it looks very much impossible. Don't understand the purpose of having these sort of meaningless matches. Another one is going on in West Indies, against England.

Lots of test cricket going on around the world. Pakistan Australia,  India Srilanka and WI England.

Khawaja and Smith have scored 100 and 50 so far as Australia 200/2 in 3rd session of day 1. Its too early to say whether it's a draw or we have winner. Wait till Pakistan first innings.

Srilanka in first session have done a good job as they got rid of all top 4 Indian batsmen. Kohli once again fail to play big innings. Don't know how much more chances he needed.
296  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 12, 2022, 10:32:05 AM

Well.. that is debatable. Cricket needs to expand, since it is only played in a handful of countries. New additions to test nations are needed. And Bangladesh suits the perspective, since they are a country of 180 million people, with cricket being the most popular sport. But the quality hasn't improved ever since they were provided with the test status. I have said this before, and would repeat now. We need to have two divisions in test cricket. Else we'll get a great number of one-sided and meaningless matches. T20 will be more competitive and in this format, we can have dozens of nations playing against each other.

Teams like Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe are capable of playing T20 and upto some extent ODIs. Test is different thing and you need to have top players in order to win that. Not only basis of population we can add nations to test format. As per my understanding no developed country consider cricket as a valid game, this is inevitable from absence of big powers like China,  Russia and USA from cricket.
297  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 11, 2022, 01:42:45 PM
Pakistan has started to lead to the right decisions and it's good that they have stated that they are not going to play in any neutral venues. I think this was a necessary step for Pakistan to take because otherwise, they would have had to wait a lot more time to have a series played on their soil. And there are no reason to compare Bollywood with Lollywood because it just does not make any sense.

Aussies have taken a big step of touring a country after 2 years and that too Pakistan. The first test is over and 2 more tests to go before we have ODI series and T20I series. Playing at neutral venues is also giving PCB huge financial loss as all money earned is given to UAE for ground lease and to cover other stuff.
Pakistan need to make sure Aussies tour went successful and that will help bringing rest of the world to Pakistan.
298  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 11, 2022, 01:35:31 PM

Ha!

He's been into top 4-5 all rounders test ranking for god knows how many years, consistently. Currently No 1 all rounder in ODI and also No 2 all rounder in T-20. Now you tell me why shouldn't we speak highly of him?

I agree in recent time his IPL numbers are not that great with the bat but it's not because he's bad batter. It's just that he always bat down the order according to situation. Having said that I think he's underrated player in modern cricket, only because he's not from PIG 3 or Pakistan.

If you go with rankings, Shakib in all rounder category is no 4th in Tests, 1st in ODI and 2 in T20I rankings. With such extraordinary rankings don't know why he is still not picked by IPL despite the fact he is not from Pakistan. Every year IPL gives too many surprises in terms of players that went unsold.

That's why the Bangladesh cricket board always made him look like a villain to the media and public. The overall situation of Bangladesh cricket is not good just because of the stupid people that are running the board.

Nobody can make you look villain unless you do stupid things that made you look villain. There are numerous videos of this guy available where he is doing silly things.
299  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: March 11, 2022, 10:21:42 AM
South Africa womem has beaten Pakistan women after an interesting match, victory by just 6 runs. Pakistan team has shown a good performance after big defeat against India. From Pakistan side Nahida Khan, Omaima Sohail and Nida Dar bat well and scored 40, 65 and 55 runs, Shabnim Ismail from SA was man of the match as she took 3 wickets.
300  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: EBAY might accept BITCOIN on: March 11, 2022, 09:40:52 AM

Don't give too much hope on it. The PayPal adoption is actually a surprising one although many have discussed that many years ago because they really are a direct competition with bitcoin.
Whilst for ebay, they have no direct competition on bitcoin and it's just going to be another payment method accepted by them if ever they're going to start adopting it.

Correct, PayPal and Bitcoin both are P2P payment system and both PayPal see bitcoin a real challenger. E-Bay game is different, as of today ebay has very strict policy on virtual currency

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Effective July 13, 2021, listings for virtual currency are not allowed. Listings for certain accessories that do not include virtual currency are allowed as detailed below.

The sale of virtual currency is prohibited on eBay.

ebay

Further there is no confirmation from ebay that they are ready to accept bitcoin though EBay Teases 'Digital Wallet' in Investor Presentation as Crypto Rumors Swirl
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