Australia are fighting back strong taking 5 wickets for just 44 runs, India now need to survive the final few overs without losing any more wickets. This poor batting performance by India have now opened up the door for Australia, its been an amazing bowling performance by Pat Cummins who took 4 wickets and the big wicket in Kohli for a duck. I will point out that the highest run chase at the MCG is 332 runs so it will be very tough for Australia even if they bowl out India cheaply.

Australia have been bowled out for 151 and India didn't enforce the follow-on and batted instead. India already lead by over 300 runs and I think they just need to add another 250 runs to make it virtually impossible for Australia to win. But India must also give them self enough time to bowl Australia out so I'm thinking they will try and get as many runs as they can in the third session and then bat until lunch tomorrow, then put Australia in to bat. India should win from here, they have simply outclassed Australia in this match.

India are in complete control of the third test match and from here they should go on to winning the match as they have Australia in big trouble at 7 wickets down for just 138 runs and they still trail by 305 runs. Australia still need 105 runs to avoid the follow-on which I can't seem them doing so it will be interesting to see what India do if Australia can't avoid the follow-on, will they bat again or put Australia back in and finish the test match tomorrow?

I think India declaring and not trying to score 500 was the right decision as it has been slow batting by the Indian team and Kohli thought that 400+ runs was enough and have a crack at Australia late on day 2 so I can see why he declared early. This is looking a lot like last years Boxing day test match where it ended in a draw so we could see the same happen here unless India happen to bowl Australia out for around 200 and then put them into bat again. Today will be an interesting morning session as the ball is still new which has been hard to score runs.

GLPM hasn't been listed on any exchange as of yet. The dev has sent in a request to get GLPM listed on Crex24 exchange which like I said is a small exchange for now but hopefully in the future GLPM will be listed on more bigger exchanges as it grows. We should hopefully see GLPM listed on Crex24 within the next week or two.

India is looking good at this stage and Kohli was very lucky to survive in the last few overs before the end of play as he was dropped by Paine which should of been taken. The new ball was difficult to play and India will need to get through the first hour in the morning session today as it will be hard to bat with the ball still being new. If India can pile on another 250+ runs today then it will put them in the box seat to win this test match. Today is going to be a hot day in Melbourne so India would want to keep the Australian team out there fielding for as long as they can. But they must also be careful to not bat too long as rain is forecast on the 5th day. The draw option has firmed up and is not into around $2.50 with most markets. 

Hmm, I'm not sure what you are talking about, what is a crimson wallet as I have never heard of this before and certainly never heard of Boat having such a wallet.

On another note, I'm yet to hear back from the two guys I have spoken to about taking over Boat but it is the Holiday season so I'll ask them again in the new year.

Liverpool now sit 6 points clear at the top of the table with a big win over Newcastle 4-0, the big upset of the round so far is that Man City dropped another game against Leicester City and are now 7 points behind Liverpool. With the way Liverpool are playing I can't see any team catching them unless they have a poor month like Man City are currently having.

Yes Mitch Marsh is the vice captain and I think he has come in as the pitch is green and will suite him along with his batting so Australia can have 4 pace bowlers and the 1 spinner which could take spin on days 3-5. India have made some changes at the top with the debut of Mayank Agarwal to open the batting, alongside Hanuma Vihari. It will be interesting to see how these two face up to the fast pace attack of Strac, Hazlewood and Cummins.

These are the teams that have been named but there is still 2 hours before the match starts so we could see a late change or two but for now the teams are:

Australia XI: Marcus Harris, Aaron Finch, Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Tim Paine (c,wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood

India XI: Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah.

Yes I'm interested to see what Cryptopia do as there is a lot of GTM stuck on there. I just want to get my GTM off there so hopefully it will be by the end of the year but who knows with Cryptopia as they have been slow recently to fix many wallets, some going into maintenance for no reason at all.

We are coming to a close on 2018 where we didn't see much from XPTX dev but I am hoping that whatever the dev is working on behind the scenes, that we get to see it in 2019 because we can't have another year with nothing or else XPTX will slowly die.

I have noticed that someone has been buying up a stack of HTS over the past few days. I'm thinking that they see how well this coin actually stakes as it continues to stake well. 2019 could be a big year for HTS if the dev team can deliver on what they have planned in their roadmap, I'll be sticking around to see how it goes and in the meantime while I wait I'll continue to keep staking.

Been in MOIN for a couple of years now so I'm really hoping that 2019 is the year we finally start to see MOIN shine. Its good to see the community stick with this project for all this time even though it has become quiet in this thread this past year but on discord the community is super active which is great to see and I will always support MOIN as it was one of my first ever coins to buy. Thanks for all the updates through out the year Jookly and KingCapper and lets hope 2019 is a better year for MOIN and crypto in general. Happy Holidays!

There could be some good news for the Indian team as Ashwin has been bowling in practice and is a big chance to play on Boxing day. Australia could also make a change by dropping Peter Handscomb and bringing in Mitch Marsh as the selectors are looking for the all rounder option.

Solaris has one of the most dedicated and hard working teams I have come across since coming into crypto in January 2015 and that is why I will continue to support this project into the future. Lets hope that 2019 is a better year for us all in crypto and that Solaris can reach its highs again as this project really does deserve to be in the top 200 at least. Happy Holidays everyone!

Please make sure that you have all swapped your old KYD before the deadline, the 31st of December is the last day to swap your old KYD for the new coins. Be sure to join their discord on how to swap your coins as the process is very easy and straight forward to understand. There were over 200 masternodes online before the swap and currently on the new chain there is just 108 so there is still a lot of coins that need to be swapped.

GLPM will start out on a small exchange for now but as time goes on I'm sure we will see GLPM listed on some of the bigger exchanges in 2019. It was a shame that GLPM was launched just when the crypto market started to go down which didn't help with masternode sales but I'm sure that once people see what GLPM has to offer they will buy from Crex24. I'm really looking forward to seeing some sneak peaks of the Glacier platform which I hope to be soon, maybe in the new year.

I'm hoping that txbit launches in January 2019 as we have been waiting a long time for this exchange. I understand that it can take a long time and that the team want to get everything running smoothly before it is launched so I'm happy to wait but hopefully we see it launched in January. I should have 2 nodes up and running by then.

Guys this child won't be playing lol they have given him the captain role as he suffered with cancer when he was a baby so this is for the make a wish foundation where they grant children wishes and it was this boys wish to captain the Australian team in a Boxing day test match. He will also be walking out onto the field for the toss of the coin to make him feel apart of the match but apart from that he won't be playing.

Its going to be an interesting match as both teams might make some changes with Finch in doubt to play and Handscomb might be dropped for another player while India will also need to make some decisions on their opening pair and if their front line spinners will be fit to play. Australia have a very good record playing in this Boxing day test match where Australia have only lost 8 Boxing day test matches since the first Boxing day test started in 1950. The last loss was in 2010 where England won by an innings and 157 runs. India have only manged to draw on two occasions and on every other occasion they have been thrashed. So its going to be an interesting match.

The swap went smoothly for me as well and now I have my masternodes back up and running again. The rewards are very good right now as most are yet to update their masternodes or have yet to swap their old coins for the new KYD. I also noticed that staking is working great with blocks of 500 KYD but this could change once more people swap to the new coin. The team have done a great job with this swap and didn't rush anything as they wanted to get everything perfect before swapping. Once this swap is over the team can get back to working on improving the KYD verification platform.