The matches may be held at the same ground. But there is a chance that different set of pitches are used for them. As far as I know, most of the grounds have 2-3 pitches and the curator usually prepare 1-2 additional pitches in addition to the main one. If that is the case, then the concern about the surface deterioration doesn't make any sense.

^^^ TV broadcasters should be reasonable in their demands. They wanted the IPL and now they got it despite the different circumstances. Now they can't make unfair demands like the schedule should be decided by them. Also, it needs to be remembered that this year's T20 World Cup was postponed, so that the IPL 2020 can go forward as planned.

Same here. All these years, I have avoided the temptation of purchasing XRP. It has become the 3rd largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, but I don't want to invest in a cryptocurrency that is heavily centralized. With anywhere from 80% to 90% of the circulating supply owned by a handful of promoters, I don't feel confident enough to invest in this coin.

What is the point in holding coins, that are no longer actively mined or traded? From what I have seen, once a coin is dead it never comes back. The promoters move to new projects and for others there is no incentive to revive a dead coin which was created by someone else. Anyway, most of the developers opt to create a new coin rather than reviving an old one.

You got lucky there. Nowadays not many of the bounty campaigns are paying the rewards. Either the project fails to reach soft-cap level, or the promoters simply refuse to make the payments. Also, the influx of the IEOs have had a huge negative impact on the ICOs. But still, I am glad that you got good returns for your participation in the bounty campaign. That means that you chose the right campaign at the right time.

This is as good as it can get. The proposed 20% tax rate is much lower, when compared to the same for the other countries. On top of that, small-scale traders who earn profits up to $2,000 per year doesn't have to pay any tax. This has to be one of the most encouraging news to appear here since the start of this year. But then, I hope that this law won't be changed further, because South Korean government has a habit of backtracking on their promises.

They are asking for too much and they are never going to get it. For far fewer amount, the victims can hire someone from Kaspersky or Norton and get their files decrypted. During the WannaCry attack, the ransom demands were much lower, usually in the range of $200-1000. BTW, this is the same group (REvil) which demanded a $42 million ransom from Donald Trump a few months back. I don't know whether Trump paid the ransom or not.

From where did you got the 65% figure? The last time we had that high Bitcoin dominance was more than a month back. Now the market share of Bitcoin is down to 62.2%, as per Coinmarketcap. And this represents a 5% drop from the levels we had during the block reward halving (67%). There are two major factors responsible for this decline. First of all, Tether and some of the other stablecoins have increased their circulating supply. And secondly, some of the second tier alts, such as Cardano and Chainlink are witnessing a big spike in their exchange rates.

As per my rough calculation, there are some 10,000 altcoins and tokens in existence. Out of them more than 50% can be considered as "dead", as they are no longer actively traded or mined. And regarding the remaining 5,000 or so, very few of them have any real life use other than for speculative investment. I would put the number of altcoins with real life use at somewhere between 100 and 500. Examples are Ethereum (smart contracts), Tether (stablecoin), Monero (anonymous payments) and TRON (filesharing).

The remaining 95% to 99% are as you said, a waste of time and money.

Those who get punished are like needles in a haystack. Imagine what could have happened, had this crime occurred in a developing nation, such as India or Nigeria? Less than 0.1% of the people who commit such crimes get punished. And this very low conviction rate is what is fueling the scams in the world of cryptocurrency. And even in this case, we don't know whether the stolen money has been recovered or not.

Also, we need to think how this people managed to fool so many people and steal this much amount of money.

If I am not wrong, the criminals managed to steal only a small amount of money (~$100,000). This looks minuscule, when compared to the amount which is lost annually to exchange hacks. For example, there were 12 major exchange hacks in 2019 (and many minor ones), which resulted in losses in excess of $300 million. You can't even compare it with other crypto scams such as Onecoin and PlusToken, when billions of USD were stolen.

In that case economies of the US and EU are in better shape. So they could have fared well. That didn't happened. What happened in China is that the government strictly imposed lockdown measures without any laxity. For example, the city of Wuhan (which is home to 11 million people) was under lockdown for almost 10 weeks. The citizens had no option other than to stay at home.

On the other hand, in countries such as India the people didn't cooperated with the authorities. When the first lockdown (3 weeks) was announced, the people supported the authorities and stayed at home. But when the lockdown got extended, they refused to stay at home or to follow safety measures. And that was the reason why the situation in India worsened after doing well initially.

I don't understand how a dropping Bitcoin dominance can be beneficial for the cryptocurrency sector. What we need right now is a consolidation. As I have posted before, there are too many altcoins and tokens in circulation, and the market as of now looks over-saturated. There is simply no space for 10,000 or so altcoins in the market. The proliference of the shitcoins have had a negative impact on the prospects of technologically advanced coins, such as Cardano and NEO.

EU has benefited some of the countries, while it had a detrimental effect on some others (such as the United Kingdom). For example, the Eastern European countries such as Poland, Estonia, Lithuania.etc benefited enormously from the EU membership. The citizens in these countries got the perimission to live and work in Western European nations such as UK, France and Germany. As a result, the economy of these nations received an enormous boost. On the other hand, countries such as Germany have also benefited from the EU. Germany, under Angela Merkel dominates the smaller nations, deciding most of the government policies. So it is mutually beneficial.

ROFLMAO. I don't even understand the point in "investing" in a stablecoin. If anyone want to invest in USD, then he can do it using the direct method, i.e by accumulating US Dollar banknotes. Apart from that, you can either open a bank savings account with USD as the currency or purchase those US treasury bonds. The second option may give you interest payments as well. But what is the advantage in investing with stablecoins? Too many risk factors and zero benefits.

ROFLMAO.... Here in India, you need to wear a PPE kit for the entire duration in case you want to travel in flight. The kit is being provided by the airlines and they are charging around $15 from the passenger for that. Since it is affordable, no one is complaining. But these measures hasn't slowed down the spread of COVID 19 pandemic here. Nowadays on average we are having ~40,000 new cases per day.

I have seen people arguing that BCH doesn't have any liquidity. But as you have pointed out, the market data has proved them wrong. Ever since BCH first came to circulation in 2017, it has shown consistently high trade volumes. And moreover, it has behaved like a cryptocurrency with low amounts of manipulation and this is evident from the fact that BCH doesn't had too many pump-and-dump cycles in the past.

I can't completely agree with you. Obviously the US isn't doing that well in its fight against the COVID 19 epidemic, and Trump is responsible for most of it. At least during the initial days, he downplayed the pandemic and refused to take the precautions. The lockdown was only announced after a lot of lives were lost and millions got infected. But that has nothing to do with the foreign policy.

Now talking about the WHO, I believe that he took the right decision. The way WHO handled the pandemic was appalling. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus proved that he was the most incompetent individual to ever become the Director-General of the WHO. IMO, the WHO did more harm than good, with their stupid findings.

I am not very optimistic about Ethereum 2.0. The team delayed its roll-out a number of times. And now they have announced that the roll-out of Ethereum 2.0 will be done in multiple stages, rather than doing it in a single phase. On top of that, there are rumors that the developers are not taking in to account the security issues, since they are in a hurry to roll-out their product.

That's true. I don't want to divert the topic and talk about Shakib, but still I think that he was made a scapegoat by the BCB.

Cricket matches are not yet 100% free from match fixing. Recently, a number of players were banned after an investigation by the ICC found that match fixing took place during the Qatar T10 League. The same happened in 2019 with the Karnataka Premier League as well. And previously, there were instances within the IPL itself, when the team owners were found to be fixing matches.

Sharjah still remains as the hub of match fixers and that's the reason I think the BCCI will never allow any visits by the Indian national team to that city in the near future. The IPL is another topic altogether.