Have you checked the performance of the recent IEOs? Many of them are in red and have brought losses to the investors. It doesn't matter whether you are investing in an ICO or an IEO. If the project fundamentals are not good, then it is going to fail upon listing. On top of that I have a feeling that the market is saturated right now, with little room available for the new projects.

Kumar Sangakkara is known as a gentleman and I would support him over the other candidates (many of whom happen to be businessmen with no relation to cricket). Sharad Pawar did a lot of damage to the sport of cricket, when he became the ICC president in 2010. There was zero positive contribution from his side and there was corruption everywhere. Shashank Manohar is a hundred times better than him, but still I would prefer someone with cricketing experience like Sangakkara.

For the subcontinental players, payments in Bitcoin are not that convenient. Bitcoin is not completely legalized in any of the countries. Even if some player receives bribes in the form of Bitcoin, he would face a lot of difficulty in converting it back to fiat cash or some other mainstream asset in an anonymous manner. My guess is that most of them would opt for cash payments.

Even if he is having health issues, the media is not going to highlight them. And in a country which is sharply polarized such as the United States, health concerns are always secondary. The Trump presidency since 2016 has polarized the Americans like never before. Now we have only two types of people. Those who want to elect Trump and those who don't. Whether Biden is healthy enough or not, is simply irrelevant here.

That doesn't make any difference. This may be surprising to you, but Shashank Manohar was the guy who almost singlehandedly took down the pig 3 (N Srinivasan, Giles Clarke and Wally Edwards) and implemented a more even revenue sharing model. Also, he was the one who changed the voting system, to give more representation to the new test sides (Ireland and Afghanistan) and the associates.

Even within Indian ICC officials, you may find a lot of differences. For example, people like Jagmohan Dalmiya and Shashank Manohar put in a lot of effort, to globalize the game of cricket. On the other hand, others such as Sharad Pawar and N Srinivasan tried to roll back these globalization attempts.

^^^ Can't put it any better than this. The 3rd point was the most important one. Once in a while, we come across good projects with good future prospects and practical usage. But in most of the cases, the team is unable to convert their plans in to reality. This is why I have been saying that the ICOs should go online only after the major part of the development is complete.

As I said earlier, I am not under-estimating the revenue share of India. I think that it is around 60% of the global revenues. But then, BCCI should also not expect other boards to remain quiet, if they take such one-sided measures. There will be backlash, like the one happened a few years ago when the Pig-3 got destroyed by the combined bargaining power of the other boards.

I am just saying that confrontation is not going to benefit anyone, and none of the sides are willing to take that route. Status quo would remain in the foreseeable future.

You need to be careful while dealing with the lesser known altcoins and tokens. Because with the medium-sized alts, you can expect several pump-and-dump cycles in a calendar year. But as I said, with the lesser known alts, this may happen only once in their short lifespan. So if you can't liquidate your holdings during the pump, then you may not get another chance at a latter point.

OK guys... After a gap of three months, I have some good news related to test cricket.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/news/west-indies-test-cricketers-resume-training-after-covid-19-hiatus/articleshow/76000818.cms


It looks as if the WICB and the ECB are doing whatever it takes, so that the bilateral series can go ahead smoothly. So in that case we may witness some live test matches within a month or so. And hopefully, we may get the Indian tour of Australia going within another couple of months.

Just as I expected, you missed the most important one. There are bounty projects which are long-term and never want to pay. I myself was a victim to many such scam bounties and all the time and effort that I put in to these projects were wasted. How does it feel, to work on some campaign for an entire year and in the end the promoters denying payment by making some silly excuses?

Anyway it is not possible to suspend all economic activity for the next 12-18 months. Along with other economic activities, sporting activities must be allowed to resume. No one is going to benefit, if all the sports events are cancelled and the players sit at home. The events should be allowed to resume, after making sure that strict crowd-control and social distancing measures are in place.

Greed is definitely one of the major reasons. Users need to be realistic about the returns. When someone promises you 100x or 200x returns in a couple of months, you need to do some research on your own, in order to check whether these claims are reliable or not. I am not saying that such returns are impossible in the cryptocurrency market. But such projects would be very few in number.

Are you saying that players from teams such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies and Pakistan would be willing to terminate their national contracts and play in the IPL, even if their own national boards reject the proposal? I really doubt that. A handful of players may chose IPL over national duty. But the vast majority would chose the latter. And I am pretty much sure that not a single player from Australia would play in the IPL, if the CA asks them not to. 

I am not saying that they will rig the data. But there is a real chance that they might change their definition, so that the "adjusted" volume from exchanges such as Binance would resemble the actual (or claimed) data more closely. Anyway, there is no concrete definition for these two types of trade volumes (reported and ajusted) and it is open to the interpretation from the users.

Check the charts. BTC has recovered more than 50% of the value it lost in 2018. Right now the BTC exhcange rate is around half of the ATH level which was achieved in 2017. The same can't be said about any of the altcoins. For example, Ethereum is now trading at $200 per coin, which represents a 85% decline from the ATH levels. Other alts such as LTC and XMR are even worse off.

There is a real chance that the remaining primary contests may be called off. In that case, Biden with 1566 out of the 2704 (58%) of the delegates declared so far will be confirmed as the Democrat nominee. I don't think that any of the other candidates are going to challenge this decision, especially as Bernie has endorsed Biden a few months back. If there is no unforeseen emergency, such as health issues, then Biden will be the Democrat candidate.

Australia is in a very difficult position right now, and that's the reason why they are trying to cut a deal with the BCCI. If the Indian tour doesn't go ahead, then CA would be looking at around $200 million in loss, which would simply destroy them. So they would agree to whatever the BCCI demands from them. Even if that means the cancellation of the T20 World Cup, which is scheduled for this year. 

The question is not whether the BCCI can afford that. The real question is whether the players from other countries would be willing to turn against their own national boards. Earlier, the ECB and CA were offering unconditional support to the BCCI. But their stance has changed recently, and they adopted an anti-BCCI position during the recent administrative changes. So I don't think that any of the boards would side with the BCCI. And I don't expect many defections from the players. In countries such as Australia, the players always put national duty over money. If such a situation arise, then I don't think that BCCI will find too many takers for their offer, outside countries such as West Indies and Pakistan.

Here is my opinion about it - We were all hoping for a major spike after the block reward halving and it never occurred. Now the Bitcoin exchange rates are dropping and I won't be surprised if it dips below 3K in the next 2-3 months. And the lesser known alts are going to get disproportionately affected. I won't be surprised even if they lose 90% or 95% of their value, similar to what happened in 2018.

Banks existed for hundreds of years, and they would remain in existence for the next few centuries as well. Even if you don't need a bank account, the banking services may be necessary for various sectors such as businesses and welfare programs. Even if cryptocurrency replaces fiat currency completely at some point in the distant future, I don't think that banks would cease to exist.