Bitcointalk Username: bryant.coleman
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Sorry guys.. I am back after a long break... and here are the latest stats:

This was the situation almost one month back:


And this is how the coins stand right now:

Bitcoin: $129,411,415,025 (68.251%)
Bitcoin forks: $5,067,308,294 (2.672%)
Stablecoins: $4,990,760,304 (2.632%)
Altcoins: $50,142,227,900 (26.445%)

This is the change compared to my last post:

Bitcoin: +2.069%
Bitcoin forks: -0.341%
Stablecoins: -0.042%
Altcoins: -1.687%

Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=75724
Current amount of Posts (Including this one): 18,944
Amount of merit EARNED in the last 120 days: 13
SegWit BTC address for payouts: 3PW5LiCJhoZrJc3HHbZVkjZNhZtH2fUZeH

Bitcointalk Username: bryant.coleman
Profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=75724
Rank: Legendary
Post: 18,942
Bitcoin address : 3PW5LiCJhoZrJc3HHbZVkjZNhZtH2fUZeH
Merit: 1039 (of which 39 earned)

1% decline in the market share of Bitcoin and a massive 25% decline in the market capitalization since my last post.

Bitcoin: $123,919,187,793 (66.182%)
Bitcoin forks: $5,642,339,418 (3.013%)
Stablecoins: $5,006,203,564 (2.674%)
Altcoins: $52,673,151,681 (28.131%)

This is the change compared to my last post:

Bitcoin: -1.216%
Bitcoin forks: -0.116%
Stablecoins: +0.620%
Altcoins: +0.711%

Bitcointalk Username: bryant.coleman
Bitcointalk profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=75724
Current post count (including this one): 18,941
Amount of merit (Earned) in the last 120 days: 16
BTC Address for Weekly Payouts: 3PW5LiCJhoZrJc3HHbZVkjZNhZtH2fUZeH

Well.. I have to disagree there. No one was talking about either Shakib or Tamim after Bangladesh won the match on Sunday. Their batting is doing better than expected against the Indian bowlers. I would say that now the bowling has turned to be their weak spot. I agree that Shakib is a legend, but for now it looks like the team has managed to do well even without him.

For now, India looks to be on the driver's seat. They have made 38/0 after 4.0 overs and Rohit Sharma is smashing the hapless Bangladeshi bowlers all around the ground. Both the opening bowlers have failed and the game is quickly slipping out of Bangladesh's hand. It looks like the series will be tied at 1-1, and the 3rd match at Nagpur will turn out to be decisive.

Bitcoin enables us to store our own money. Unlike the case with fiat cash, if someone is holding cryptocurrency, then he alone is responsible for it. If his wallet get hacked and the coins stolen, then it is not fair to blame anyone else. Even if you are holding your coins or tokens in an exchange and the coins get lost from there, the blame is on you. Exchanges are only for trading and none of us should be using it for storing our cryptocurrency (personally I would prefer the DEX sites, but I know that it is not viable in all the cases).

LOL... they believe that BCH can overtake BTC in coinmarketcap? BCH is supported by a lot of heavyweights, such as Jihan Wu and yet they are unable to get BCH to the top-3. The last time I checked, the market share of Bitcoin Cash was just around 2% (as opposed to 68% for Bitcoin and 8% for Ethereum). I feel that first they should try to overtake ETH and XRP before challenging BTC.

One thing I have noticed is that the BCH promoters themselves don't have much faith in that currency. Roger Ver is rumored to be holding more than BTC200,000 in his wallets (worth close to $2 billion). If he want, he can easily pump BCH exchange rates by converting his Bitcoins to Bitcoin Cash. But he is sticking to BTC. What could be the reason?  

I don't think that Binance or Huobi is going to scam you for $250,000. They have been around for quite long. And the advantage with Bitcoin is that each and every transaction is recorded in the Blockchain and they won't be able to deny receiving the amount in their wallet address. But still I can understand your concern. A lot of the smaller exchanges are rumored to do such tricks to their customers. But reputation matters a lot here. If an exchange loses its reputation, then it will be very difficult for it to survive. And we all have seen what happened to the Livecoin exchange, when they had a similar exchange with one of the users (it was settled later).

In most cases, that is not true. If the project is honoring the timelines that have been set during the ICO, the investors in most cases will be happy to hold the tokens for the long-term. But what happens very often is that the developers go AWOL once the ICO funding is complete and the development work lags down (if not stopped altogether).

Under such circumstances, what do you expect the investors to do? At least some of them would dump their tokens and book the losses. And the current market sentiments doesn't help much. Most of the present ICOs are turning out to be scams and there is a sense of panic among the investors about it. The last thing they want is their hard earned money to be stolen by the scammers.

And this is the danger with the IEOs. What makes you believe that the IEOs are 100% safe? Now even small-sized exchanges are listing dozens of IEOs at the same time. And I have checked the returns from the recent IEOs. Many of the users who have invested in them have incurred losses. There is a chance that they may go up in the future, but these early signs should be worrying for the investors.

Well... that is a no-brainer. Facebook has such a big user-base (around 2 billion users, almost 20 times the number of active cryptocurrency users), and it is being regarded as one of the largest corporations out there. When they get involved in innovative technology such as cryptocurrency, not just the individuals, but also the whales and the hedge funds may get interested in it. 

But then the big question is whether Libra will be realized or not. The American lawmakers have made it clear that they don't support a USD-backed cryptocurrency and it has found few supporters among the banks and investment funds. Even the starting partners such as Paypal, Visa and Master have made it clear that they are no longer involved in the project.

Liton Das got lucky twice and still he couldn't make use of it. First the keeper (Rishabh Pant) missed the stumping, and then Rohit Sharma dropped a very easy chance (can't blame Rohit here, as both Dube and Pant were about to collide with him). He was batting at 17, at the time of the missed stumping and had made 26 when Rohit dropped him. But then he got out for 29.

That said, Bangladesh is looking very good here and their run rate is above 8 runs per over. It should not be too hard for them to get to a score of around 170, with nine wickets remaining. Apart from Washington Sundar, none of the bowlers are looking impressive for me. And it looks like we can expect some fireworks after the 15th over from the Bangladeshi batsmen.

As per the report, he should be ready by January 2020. Stress fracture is always a huge problem with today's pace bowlers. A number of them had their career ended due to this. Olly Stone of England is a perfect example. His career was effectively ended by a stress fracture on the lower back. Even earlier, bowlers such as Dennis Lillee faced this issue. He had to cut down on his pace to manage it.

For today, the weather prediction says that the chances of rain are low. I may not be surprised if we get full 20 over innings for both sides. Mohammad Naim and Liton Das opening for Bangladesh and they need to score at a good pace during the powerplay. India is missing the experienced players and the opening bowlers are going to be Khaleel Ahmed/Deepak Chahar.

Bangladesh needs to score as many runs as possible from Ahmed/Chahar/Krunal, as it may not be very easy to do so against the two spinners (Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar). The Bangladeshi batting lineup looks strong, with in-form batsmen such as  Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur Rahim, and Mahmudullah in the middle order.

This is the biggest irony out there. Our wealth is already taxed once (when we received it as salary). And we make risky investments using whatever amount is left after paying the income taxes. And if we incur losses, then no one is going to help us. We have to bear our losses without any support from anyone. On the other hand, in case we end up with a profit, then we need to pay tax on this amount as well. How many times we need to pay taxes on the same amount? And the biggest joke is that the vast majority of these taxes are going to bomb the sh!t our of some third world country such as Syria, or used to pay salaries and pensions to lazy government employees.

A lot can be done if there is a will. But as of now no one cares and the scammers are having a free run. I am afraid that now it is too late to rescue the ICO sector. The number of new ICOs listing every month has fallen to a small fraction of what we had in 2018, and most of the investors have decided not to participate in this sector anymore due to bitter experiences in the past.

A few simple regulations could have rescued the ICO sector, such as making third party escrow mandatory for the projects. But the investors continued to pour in their money in to shady projects, and this actually encouraged the scammers. Rather than those who are behind these scam projects, I would say that most of the blame should fall on the investors. If they had been a bit more cautious, then the situation could have been much different now.

Adoption of Bitcoin by Starbucks (if the news is true), will definitely have a big impact on the exchange rates of Bitcoin. But still I believe that the block reward halving will be having an even bigger impact on the rates. If the Starbucks rumor had a big impact, then we should be seeing Bitcoin rallying in the exchanges now, but that was not the case when the last time I checked the charts. To clarify a bit, nothing is confirmed about Starbucks. Bakkt has made an announcement that they intend to integrate Bitcoin payments in Starbucks, which may or may not be realized in the near future.

Before the series started, I expected the Pakistani batsmen to struggle under AUstralian conditions and their bowlers to perform well. But exactly the opposite is happening now. It is true that some of their star batsmen such as Fakhar Zaman have failed. But Babar Azam played exceptionally well during both the T20 matches (which means that the additional work load of captaincy is not affecting his batting form).

However, the Pakistani bowlers have been a disappointment so far. Their fast bowlers, especially Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Irfan have performed well on pitches abroad. But they have been unable to take the wickets of top order Australian batsmen. The used two spinners for the second mach, which sounds like a good strategy for me (given the lack of form from the fast bowlers).