Just hold on for some more time. We are yet to witness the peak impact from this ongoing pandemic. Already 30 million or so in the US have become jobless and within the next 2-3 months, the impact will become more and more noticeable. The real trouble will start when these people run out of savings. The federal debt is going to increase by more than $3 trillion this year, and that can also have an impact.

What about some of those primary candidates, such as Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris or Kirsten Gillibrand? Personally, I would prefer someone who is energetic and popular with the youth, such as Tulsi Gabbard. He's 77 years old, and non-Hispanic white. He needs a running mate, who is young, and non-white. Someone who can attract the youth vote.

The future of BNB will depend on the future of cryptocurrency in general. If I am not wrong, Binance is the largest cryptocurrency exchange right now. They already have the monopoly. So the only thing that matters now is the health of the market. If the cryptocurrency market grows considerably in the future, then the Binance exchange will benefit out of it, and along with that BNB will emerge as one of the top cryptocurrencies.

Around 18-19 years ago... the ECB experimented with another format of cricket called "Power Cricket". This was probably before the T20 cricket established its hold. It was played for a shorter duration. I don't remember exactly, but I guess each innings composed of 12 overs. The major difference with this format was that on top of 4s and 6s, there were 3 new types of boundaries. Depending on the length of the sixer, 8 and 10 runs were given. 8 runs if the ball landed more than 20 meters beyond the boundary line and 10 runs if it landed 40 m back. 12 runs were awarded, when the ball hit the roof (this format was played in stadiums with retractable roof).

^^^^ In the sub-continental surfaces, some of the matches are ending up as draw. Climate change is also playing a major part, in the form of rain interruptions. If we could somehow take care of the rain interruptions, then actually it may be possible to limit the test match duration to 4 days. But as of now, there is no solution available for this.

^^^^ We may not miss any of their action, as they will continue to play test matches during the various bilateral series. I am suggesting this test world cup on top of the existing bilateral tours such as the Ashes. We can have 8 teams in the main tournament (the bottom ranked teams from no.7 to no.11 needs to play a qualifier, from which two teams will qualify). In the first week, we can have the quarter-finals, in which 4 teams will proceed to the semi-finals stage. In the second week, we can have the semi-finals and during the third week, we can have the finals. Entire tournament will be over in just three weeks.

Well... WTC is definitely something.

For the ODI format, we have the ODI World Cup, and for the T20 format we have the T20 World Cup. There is no equivalent for the test format, and therefore I can perfectly understand your argument. However, I am not comfortable with this staggered tournament, stretching over many many years. Hey... I have another idea. Why can't we have a test world cup, once every 10 years? We can have 12 teams, participating in an all-knockout tournament.

Well.. it can be very irritating. But why spend valuable gas on these worthless tokens? It is a self-defeating purpose. And if you do this, then these tokens will be causing a loss for you. The best thing to do would be to ignore these tokens. How many times do you login to your wallet? Once in a week? Or once in a month? I would understand your frustration, in case you need to login every hour.

It depends on the player. I have seen some of the players retiring from the test and ODI formats, to concentrate on the shorter version. On the other extreme, we have a few, who have retired from T20/ODI and they are now available only for the tests. It is up to the player to make that decision.


Many thanks for your concern Royse. I am doing fine, and I hope the others are doing good as well. Here in India, we are through the 7th week of lockdown. Slight relaxations kick in from today onward. But most of the shops and establishments will remain closed for some time.

My vote made that 39-8 in favor of Fury. No one in their right mind would say that Deontay Wilder has absolutely no chance here. He is having a good chance, but I would say that Fury is having a better probability of winning. A few months back, I would have gone with Wilder. But after watching the fight with Fury on February this year, my opinion has changed. 

The same would be the case with the vast majority of the users. Personally, I got rid of most of the tokens that I received from various bounty campaigns in 2018. I either converted them to Ethereum, or just cashed out. However, the Ethereum exchange rates have also fallen quite a bit since 2018. Anyway, it is still better than many of the tokens, which have become completely worthless.

ETH and BNB are some of the good altcoins, but as of now I would rather keep my investments limited to Bitcoin. ETH is showing a lot of fatigue lately. Until they manage to roll out Ethereum 2.0 without much issues, I am not going to trust them again. And BNB is quite risky. Even a few months back, the exchange was having issues with the American authorities.

Here also there were a few incidents. A few of the guys tried card games. What started with a handful of people soon grew in to a grand tournament, involving dozens of people. The cops raided the place and arrested all of them (except those who could run to safety). Can't do anything about it. People get bored, after staying at home for such lengthy duration.

None of these coins are included in the top 20 list from Coinmarketcap. And for the past 2 years or so, all of them have been on the downward trajectory. A few of them looked promising two years ago. But now it may be the time to make an exit and book the losses. From what I have seen, very few of the alts have recovered, after continuously going down for more than 2 years.

No doubt there. Test cricket requires the maximum amount of skill. The batsmen needs both attacking and defending capabilities. They need to rotate the strike. The bowlers need to take wickets at crucial intervals and bowling economically won't help much. All that is true. But for the Olympics, we need the most popular format. And right now, the most popular format in cricket is T20.

AZBI is not an exception. There are thousands of similar projects out there. Even I had the misfortune of participating in a few bounty campaigns, which promoted similar projects. A lot of them attract investors and bounty hunters by saying that they will list the token in some big exchange. But in the end, this promise is never kept. In case the project manages to reach the soft-cap level, it may get listed in some unknown exchange.

Is this a joke? What do you really expect from the bounty hunters? Do you want them to toil around, without any payment for 12-13 months? I would have agreed to long-term promotions, if the payment was guaranteed. Can the promoters guarantee a minimum amount for each of the bounty hunters? I am not talking about very large amounts. Even 5% or 10% of the promised bounty may be enough. They can keep this amount in an escrow. But then, none of the promoters are ready for that. They just want slave labor from the bounty hunters.

I am not a big fan of this World Test Championship. We have the ICC test rankings, and I guess that is enough. Having a championship stretching over many years is a bad idea. And that too with a boring format such as test cricket. I would like to see some immediate changes to the way test cricket is played, and WTC is not the answer. First and foremost, we need two divisions in test cricket. And there needs to be a promotion-relegation system attached to it. I would rather suggest a third division for associate nations (with one team getting the promotion to the top tier in every 4 years), but then the current test nations such as Zimbabwe and Ireland may oppose that idea.

From where did you get this idea about "fake polls"? Opinion polls and exit polls have resembled the actual results very closely, at least for the past several decades. However, what happened in 2016 was an exception. Many of the Trump supporters in the rust-belt region never disclosed their voting preference to the opinion polls, because of fear of backlash against them. Also, the opinion polls at that time over-predicted the voter turnout among the Democrat voters.

Just 8 days remain for the block reward halving and I am getting more and more skeptical with every passing day. The prices have risen by 20% during the last couple of weeks. But I was expecting a more long-lasting spike before the reward halving. And another thing is that the volumes have remained at low levels and there seems to be a lack of enthusiasm in the market.