I don't get this. Does it matter whether BTC becomes completely worthless or not? The current exchange rate is around $16,000 per coin. Let's imagine a scenario where the price dips by 99.9% to $16 per coin. For those who invested in Bitcoin at the previous level, this represents almost complete loss of their capital. For them, at this stage it doesn't matter whether the price of Bitcoin gets to $0 or $10.

That depends on a lot of factors. Central banks all around the world prints money and there is nothing special about it. Only in some extreme cases, we get to witness hyperinflation. If the central bank is able to maintain a stable exchange rate, then it doesn't matter. What happened in countries such as Venezuela is that the exchange rate was not maintained and this resulted in the national currency losing its value.

The Chinese government has probably realized that it is impossible to ban a decentralized asset such as Bitcoin. In order to ban Bitcoin, they need to shut down the internet. So they have restricted the exchange of cryptocurrency with fiat cash and seems to be satisfied with the results. The local users have discovered the loophole and instead of fiat, they are using stablecoins such as USDT and BUSD.

Individual performances doesn't matter if they are not enough to guide their team to a win. Adam Lyth played a great innings yesterday, but once he reached his half century, he holed out to deep midwicket. For me it looked as if he was waiting to reach his 50, so that he could get out. At this point, Multan was 80/1 after 8 overs. Had he stayed on for a couple of overs, the outcome could have been different.

LOL.. I would like to see the names and other details of these 28 "experts". I am from Asia, and I would say that the election system in the United States is a complete joke. Even the third world countries have a better election system. And as far as the United States is concerned, the level of election fraud seems to go up with every passing election.

The entire "mail in ballot" procedure is prone to vote rigging (despite the ultra-leftists of CNN shouting 10 times a day that there is "no evidence" for the same). There is a reason why most of the countries in the world doesn't have this mail-in-ballot system. Because it is prone to fraud. Everyone knows what is going on in inner cities. Democrat activists collect the postal ballots en masse, and then mark them in favor of their candidates. That is how you have vote dumps of 3000 or 5000 at a time during the election day, all marked for Joe Biden.

My justification is that de Kock can be replaced. But it is very difficult to find someone of the calibre of Kieron Pollard. If they release him, then he can easily fetch a price of more than $2 million during the auctions. And for de Kock, it is possible to replace him with some of the Indian players (Wriddhiman Saha or Dinesh Karthik if they are released by their franchises), or with international players (Joshua Phillipe, Tom Banton, Alex Carey.etc).

As of 16th November 2020:

Total market cap: $456,729,511,960 (+18.01%)

Bitcoin: $296,945,865,759 (65.016%)
Bitcoin forks: $7,702,124,359 (1.686%)
Stablecoins: $22,156,216,470 (4.646%)
Altcoins: $129,925,305,372 (28.652%)

This is the change compared to my last post:

Bitcoin: +3.873%
Bitcoin forks: -0.442%
Stablecoins: -0.337%
Altcoins: -3.093%



I am not the OP. I can do the regular update, if the thread ownership is transferred to me.

Yes.. these sites looks like they provide more accurate statistics. BTW, I won't blame sites such as earn.com, which shows a higher median transaction fee. Their algorithm is designed to work like this. And they are accurate when they show 300 or 320 Sat/Byte as the median fee (because most of the users are paying this much fee). My suggestion is that they should add another column, to show how much fee is actually required, in addition to the median fee.

For some of the countries, I have a feeling that there may be under-reporting of data. For example, in India the local exchanges were closed down many months back and most of the trading occurs in peer-to-peer platforms. And most of these platforms may refuse to divulge trade volumes. The same can be said about other countries, such as China and the Latin American nations such as Brazil and Argentina.

I still have hope regarding South Africa. There is a lot of talent there. Despite the emigration of so many good players, they were still able to produce promising young cricketers. But the same can't be said about Zimbabwe. They have lost their competitiveness due to the outflow of white cricketers. The talent pool in Zimbabwe is not large enough to ensure the quality without the top players.

India is a much larger market for cricket, when compared to Pakistan. So obviously if there is any ban, it is going to have a larger impact on the PCB rather than the BCCI. Even for foreign franchise T20 leagues such as BBL and CPL, a large chunk of the audience and the revenues come from the Indian market. Pakistan's population is less than 1/8th of that of India and the revenues are proportionately smaller.

The Indian batsmen, apart from Virat Kohli can face pace bowling, but they can be quite inconsistent. If you remember the 2017 series, then it was Pujara who scored the most runs for India. So they have batsmen who can face world class pace attack. But the question is whether they will be able to do that on a consistent basis or not. Anyway, this time the indications are that CA will be preparing pitches that are more conductive to batting.

Here is my guess. They may retain - Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah. They may bid really hard for Quinton de Kock, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav and Trent Boult, but it needs to be seen whether they will be able to get a majority of these players due to the limitation with the purse. But without players such as de Kock, Kishan and Boult, the Mumbai Indians would lose their identity that they built during this edition of the IPL.

You forget the fact that India is also a pace powerhouse now. The current Indian pace attack resembles the Pakistani pace battery of 1990s, which included legends such as Wasim Akram, Aaqib Javed and Waqar Younis. The main difference between the two sides is that the Australians have batsmen who are very good against pace bowling, while India doesn't have a lot of such batsmen.

I completely agree with your suggestions. This idea of salary cap is just crazy. They should remove it, so that the best players will receive the best contracts and salary package. Also, I believe that they should increase the number of players who can be retained to 6 from the current limit of 4. Anyway, if they remove the salary cap, then these retentions won't be needed. It is really irritating to adjust with the changing team composition after every season. There needs to be some stability in the squad composition.

This is not something that is very unusual. A lot of gamblers have had their lives ruined in a matter of one or two hours, as a result of the uncontrolled addiction to gambling. In casinos, there are always loan sharks who will be ready to provide instant loans, so that the gamblers can continue with their bets. And in most cases, it ends in further losses. The same is now happening in online casinos.

It would have been close if Virat Kohli was playing all the matches. But without Kohli, Australia is having the advantage. Kohli has been the backbone of the Indian batting lineup in surfaces which favor pace bowling. None of the other Indian batsmen have performed consistently on such surfaces. However, Indian pacers seems to be in very good form right now.

I am tired of hearing about this Indian BS again and again. There is a lot of FUD going on claiming that India is about to ban Bitcoin and this has been going on for almost 2-3 years now. The finance minister has clarified multiple times that as of now no such measure is under consideration. But there are certain vested interests who would like to spread FUD on this topic. If there is a definite proof of the government working on such a measure, we can debate about it. But until then such unfounded rumors must be thrown in the dustbin.

I am not in agreement with the current methodology which is used to calculate the market cap. IMO, lost coins should be completely excluded while calculating market capitalization. As per reliable estimates, there are close to 3 million lost coins (i.e those without private keys). Also, market cap should take in to account those coins which are not in free-float. Should we include coins which were mined in 2010, and not moved till now in the market cap calculation?

In order to overturn the outcome, Trump needs to prove that the difference caused by vote rigging was more than the winning margin for Biden. This is almost impossible, because Biden won most of the swing states by large margins. He won Wisconsin by 20,000 votes, Pennsylvania by 63,000, Georgia by 14,000, Nevada by 35,000 and Arizona by 11,000. And since Biden is having 306 electoral votes right now, Trump needs to prove that in several swing states. BTW, I think he (Trump) will concede the elections within the next one or two weeks.