It is not like Ethereum and Bitcoin is having some sort of a "relationship". It has more to do with the dependency which Ethereum has on Bitcoin. In simple words, Ethereum needs Bitcoin to survive and as of now there is no independent existence for that cryptocurrency. On the other hand, Bitcoin is capable of an independent existence. All the other altcoins are like parasites leaching the market cap of BTC.

Right now we have dozens of stablecoins and I agree that the number needs to be reduced. Competition is always good, but if everyone of the exchanges create their own version of the stablecoin, it will create unnecessary complications for the user. Why can't multiple exchanges use the same stablecoin, managed by a third party issuer? It will make the stablecoin more safer as well.

I have to disagree with the OP. During the last few weeks, we have seen the gold prices declining and at the same time the crude oil prices have increased by around $10 per barrel (from $38 per barrel to $48 per barrel). For me, these are the strongest indications that the economy is in the right track. Investors believe that the markets are recovering and that is the reason why they are moving the money from gold to stock market.

I guess they will deal with the seized assets the same way as the FBI dealt with the Silk Road coins. FBI created a new wallet, and moved the coins to this wallet. Only the FBI staff has the private keys to access these coins. The coins were held in this wallet for sometime, before the FBI got rid of them through a series of online auctions. I am not sure whether they have any coins remaining from that seizure.

A distinction needs to be made between free airdrops and those which require a fee. I would never recommend those airdrops which are not free, because it goes against the very idea of airdrops. The main purpose is to distribute small amounts of cryptocurrency among the users, so that at least some of them gets interested in this particular cryptocurrency and start using it.

This is similar to what happened to the other coins, before they had their fork. But in each of these cases, the exchange rates plummeted after the fork. I won't be surprised if the same happens with XRP as well, because despite its no.3 position, XRP liquidity and trade volumes are much lower when compared to the other established alts such as LTC and BCH.

That is inaccurate. Trump did better than down ballot candidates in states such as Arizona. However in states such as Maine and Michigan, he performed worse than the GOP candidates for senate/house. But looking at the percentages can be misleading. A lot of people who participated in the POTUS election abstained from the senate elections.

For example, John James outperformed Trump in Michigan (48.22% vs 47.85%, a difference of 0.37%). But if you look at the number of votes, then it can be seen that Trump received more votes when compared to James (2,649,852 vs 2,642,833).

Trump, rather than hurting the down ballot candidates, helped them in a big way by ensuring a huge turnout among the GOP supporters.

Your post is quite perplexing. Obviously some of the casinos are being owned by billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson and Lui Che Woo. But a majority of them are small to medium sized businesses. In the United States for example, there are small casinos run by various native American reservations. And an increase in tax level is more likely to have an impact on these smaller casinos rather than the larger ones.

In all probability, we will witness a new ATH next month. A major correction was expected before the new ATH could be achieved and we just had that phase during the last few days. But the recovery after the correction was rather remarkable. The prices rose from $16,400 to $18,400 in a matter of three days. Once again proves that there is a huge demand for coins in the market. If $20K level is breached next week, we can expect the prices to move rapidly northward after that. 20K is a major resistance level and after that we don't have such levels until we reach 25K or 30K.

You are assuming Ethereum to be more "useful" because it can be used for smart contracts. But for the purpose of being used as a medium for online payments and for investment as a speculative investment asset, Ethereum has no additional merits over Bitcoin. And at least for me, smart contracts make no difference. Because I haven't seen it a lot in real life usage.

Bounty hunters normally work for 2-3 months without any payment and they receive their tokens once the ICO is over. Now you can't force them to wait any further. Can you imagine a supermarket or a retail store paying the wages to its employees after a 6 month delay? Forcing the bounty hunters to wait anymore doesn't make sense. The project team can encourage them to hold on to the tokens, by announcing additional rewards for those who are willing to do so. But strong-arm tactics are not going to work here. 

I can partly agree to your post. But did you watch Steve Smith batting today? Even the commentators were saying that it is impossible to bowl a good line and length against him. Because he will score runs no matter where you deliver the ball. The Indian bowlers tried hard, deploying whatever tricks and tactics they know of. But Smith was scoring runs at such an ease, that they got demoralized in the end. Ironically, the only bowler who impressed me was Hardik Pandya, who was bowling despite being injured.

The second T20I was very close. England won with just one ball to spare. It was surprising to see Tabraiz Shamsi picking up so many wickets. He made things complicated, when we expected England to chase down the total with relatively ease. In the end Morgan and Malan took England over the finishing line. But the match was closer than what the scorecard would suggest.

There is no point in targeting Saini. The other bowlers also leaked a lot of runs. Both Shami and Bumrah conceded almost 8 runs per over today. Chahal also gave away a lot of easy deliveries. The outcome of the third match doesn't matter much, as Australia have won the series. And for India, their position in the points table for the 2020–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League is not important, as they have already qualified for the 2023 World Cup. So I agree with JSRAW. For the third match, India can include youngsters like Natarajan and Saini in the playing XI.

Be careful with ETH. It is looking overpriced right now and there have been a lot of hype related to DeFi and ETH 2.0. A lot of people have invested in Ethereum, due to this hype. If things doesn't turn the way they are expected, then the exchange rates may crash big time. A lot of tall claims are being made with ETH 2.0. We don't know whether all of them can be realized.

There is no living or dead person with the name "Satoshi Nakamoto". The closest to this name we have is Dorian S Nakamoto, who lives in California. A few years back, there was a lot of coverage about him in the media, after getting flooded with messages enquiring whether he is the real Satoshi. But he clarified that he has nothing to do with Bitcoins and the name was just a coincidence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-26480464

This is not the time to raise taxes, unless you want the businesses to go bankrupt. Casinos and other businesses have seen a disproportionate decline in their revenues. Many of the small and medium sized casinos have closed down, unable to pay the wages to their employees. At this time, it is ironic that the government is going ahead with a tax increase. Sometimes I think that these Latin American politicians use some organ other than brain to make the decisions.

Despite all the hype regarding altcoins and FUD, Bitcoin dominance is remaining solidly above the 62% level. The combined market cap of the 10,000 or so altcoins right now is less than half of that of Bitcoin (I am excluding stablecoins and Bitcoin forks from altcoin market cap). This means that the market has now matured from what we had in 2017, and a consolidation phase has started. In the next few months, shitcoins will be removed from the market, and only cryptocurrencies with proper usage will remain. 

Hmm.. I guess I have to agree with you there. Thangarasu Natarajan is an exciting bowler and he will add variety to the Indian pace battery. Right now all their bowlers (with the exception of Jadeja) are right-handed and the addition of Natarajan will be like a game changer. No issues in sticking with Saini. He is a promising young bowler, so can be given one more chance in the ODI series.

DeFi is the next overhyped bubble in the cryptocurrency market. Most of the recent DeFi projects have negative returns, and there are solid signs that scammers have also made their entry to this sector. Obviously the lack of regulations and legal oversight is attracting a lot of shady elements. On the other hand, the BNB valuation is based on solid fundamentals. It is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, and the volumes seems to be increasing with every passing month.