Being a regular visitor to India, I would agree. Earlier, cricket matches between India and Pakistan used to be hyped to a huge extent. That is not the case now. Even when India is facing Pakistan in some ICC tournament, the hype is quite normal nowadays. One reason that I could think of is that the quality of cricket in Pakistan has gone down during the last decade or so. Results are becoming predictable and the matches are getting more and more lopsided.

Hmm.. so a lot of people are going to invest small amounts (such as $25 or $50) through their PayPal accounts. It is going to create a chain-reaction. The demand will increase and the prices will go up. Those who invested in Bitcoin, and profited out of this investment will start bragging about their profits, which is going to result in even more investment. And the exchange rates will again go up. But at one point, the chain will snap and the prices will crash. I want to know at which level the snapping is going to occur.

I also skipped placing a bet for this election, because the odds were not very attractive. Saved some money, because if I too would have gone with Trump. Since the opinion polls were giving less than 10% chance to Trump, I thought I would get similar betting odds. But the gambling sites had higher odds for Trump and I thought that the potential rewards were not large enough to take this risk.

I am also unable to recall any major instances. But I remember reading about it (may be in cricinfo). Back then the ICC was desperate to come up with some "innovation". They were in a haste and implemented the measures without proper analysis. Although they discarded the idea after a few months, I had always thought that it can be brought back in to the game, with necessary changes.

One statistic that caught my attention is the figure of 95% turnout in Philadelphia. Even in countries which have mandatory voting, you will be lucky to get 90% to 95% turnout. Statewide average for Pennsylvania was 74.95%, which is somewhat expected. On top of that, we would expect that the turnout would be lower in inner city areas (as the case with previous elections). And this pattern is not just limited to Philadelphia. We had similar pattern in many of the deep-blue inner city areas.

And here is another instance:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/12/18/detroit-ballots-vote-recount-election-stein/95570866/

It was a low-scoring match, but I enjoyed watching it. Babar Azam once again confirmed that he is miles ahead of the remaining batsmen. The PCB did a great job in resuming the tournament and managing it through the end. Initially,  thought that it would be better in case they abandon the remaining matches and concentrate on the next year's tournament. But in the end, it worked well for them and the TV audience ratings were also good.

Well.. it is possible. A lot of cryptocurrency users are wary of keeping their assets in exchange wallets. Every year we have well publicized exchange hacks and a lot of users lose their hard earned money in them. And unless the exchange is reimbursing those coins (Binance and BTC-e are the only two exchanges which have done this), it is just gone. For example Mt Gox users are waiting for any reimbursement, for the last 6 years.

It was not just the mainstream media. Social media was also extremely biased in this election and the Democrats used their leverage with various social media platforms very cleverly. Both Facebook and Twitter censored or removed posts from Donald Trump and the other Republicans, while refusing to allow publication of anything which would harm the prospects of Joe Biden. The Hunter Biden scandal was not covered by any of the mainstream media channels and social media blocked anyone who would post anything related to this news. And BTW, the legal head of Twitter (Vijaya Gadde) is an extreme-left loonie.

Now coming back to the topic, I hope those who bet in favor of Joe Biden have received their rewards. Trump is yet to concede, but now it looks clear that Biden will take charge on January 2021. So I would assume that the gambling sites would start distributing the winning amounts this month itself.

Some very basic precautions can prevent this type of scamming. Experienced campaign managers always ask the users to put their ERC-20 address on the "Location" section of the Bitcointalk profile. This measure takes just 2 seconds and it surprises me that there are campaign managers who don't bother about it. Anyway, imposing a blanket ban is always time saving than identifying the potential cheaters.

Apart from X factor, the other innovations are not very interesting. And even this X factor seems to be another attempt to revive the failed proposal of "super-sub". X factor tries to address one of the issues with the super sub rule, as two players can be named as substitutes. So the teams can have one batsmen and one bowler named as substitutes and can replace the players according to the match situation.

One of the issues is that cryptocurrency is a relatively new market and every year we have tens of millions of people who are investing in it for the first time. The scammers mostly target these people, who sometimes fall in to outlandish claims of massive profits. To complicate things further, cryptocurrency is decentralized and there is no central authority where the users can look for guidance. And if they turn to other sources, there are more scammers then ordinary investors present.

This year's election will be remembered as the most rigged presidential election in the history of the United States. I would say that the votes should be recounted in all the 50 states and then audited by an independent third party. A part of the blame should go to the republican party as well. They should have prepared for this massive level of vote rigging and should have put observers at all the polling booths and counting centers. I understand that they were prevented from doing so in some places, but then this issue should have been highlighted and taken to the courts as soon as it happened.

This just mean that the users are becoming more careful. I am someone who have lost my cryptocurrency multiple times by holding them in exchange wallets. I lost considerable amounts, when exchanges such as Wex.nz and Cryptopia went down. Also, the hacking attempts always increase, when there is a rally in the exchange rates. So I would say that the users are doing the right thing.

From what I have seen, for the vast majority of the cryptocurrencies, the pump-and-dump cycle happens only once. If you fail to dump your tokens immediately after the first dump, then it is quite possible that you will remain stuck forever. The problem is that in most cases the promoters show little interest in a project, once they are able to collect as much as they can from the investors and traders. They will move on to another project rather than trying to revive it.

It is indeed high, when we compare with the numbers we had on 17th December 2017, when the ATH level was achieved. Back then, this was the market share of various cryptocurrencies:

Bitcoin: 55.47%
Ethereum: 11.6%
XRP: 4.81%
BCH: 5.3%
LTC: 2.9%

Also, it is very interesting to analyze the Bitcoin dominance in 2017. Until March 2017, it was stable, at around 83%. By June, it reached 37% (due to the BCH fork) and then slowly started increasing again. Breached the 60% level in December, before falling steeply to 33% by January 2018. Back then the market share was extremely volatile, unlike the situation now.

PayPal BTC is just like an ETF. You don't have the private keys to your coins and therefore you can say that someone else is holding the money for you. But then, this is very common in the cryptocurrency sector. Most of the exchanges doesn't provide private keys. And we have cryptocurrencies such as Tether, where the exchanges are holding the backup funds and the user is just issued a token.

I see a lot of baseless opposition directed at PayPal. They are not forcing anyone to use their services. You can ignore them, if you are not interested. And before shouting at PayPal, claiming that it is a scam, I would like to draw your attention to the hundreds of cryptocurrency exchanges which closed down all of a sudden, running the lives of large number of users. At least we are sure that the same won't happen with PayPal, since the deposits are insured.

If they want to stop the capital flight, then they need to stop manipulating their stock market and the national currency. Forcing the citizens to make investments in overpriced assets is not going to work. Thousands of Chinese investors are renouncing their passports and migrating to Western nations every year. Their stupid anti-Bitcoin policies will worsen this situation even further.

To an extent, the altcoin prices are dependent on that of Bitcoin. But it should also be remembered that during the last few weeks, there was a sharp increase in Bitcoin dominance. It was around 57% two months back and now the market share has gone up to 65%. Most of the altcoins are declining against Bitcoin, although they seems to be stable against fiat currencies.

This is very common in the bounty section and that is why you should do proper research on the project, and most importantly the bounty campaign manager before joining any campaign. You may find a lot of reviews in the internet, but need to be careful as at least some of them may be fake. It may take some effort to differentiate the fake reviews from the honest ones.