I would disagree with you. Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency, and I don't think that any new coin may be able to replace it. If that was the case, then it would have happened many years back. In due course of time, what's going to happen is that a new idea may be invented and it may become more popular and acceptable than the one proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008.

The Sponsors are in favor of a longer IPL, with two additional teams and a total of 90 matches (each of the teams playing 18 matches). But the problem is that the existing franchises are against this idea. They argue that it may dilute the franchise value. The solution to this is to divide franchise fee from the two new teams between the 8 existing franchises. But then, the BCCI may not be very happy to part with $700-800 million.

Whether they like it or not, these are the facts that BCCI should take in to account:

1. IPL is not possible this year
2. Other cricket boards are in much worse state, when compared to the BCCI
3. Even other sports bodies in India don't have the sort of reserve funds that BCCI have access to.

Well.. most of the projects are like this only. There is a huge gap between the projected bounty reward and the realized reward. Gone are the days, when you may receive $1,000 or $2,000 for doing a single signature bounty. Nowadays, you can count yourself lucky, if you receive any reward at all. Because the vast majority of the bounties are not even paying a reduced reward.

May be. But that is not the right way of looking in to it. Almost all the world leaders are witnessing a spike in their popularity ratings. For example, Angela Merkel was at rock bottom a few months back, and she has bounced back by quite a bit. But I can't witness any similar spike with the approval ratings for Donald Trump. And we need to remember that the pandemic in the United States is likely to get worse in the coming weeks. Another 6 months to go for the elections, and Trump is in for a disastrous re-run. It's going to be a no-contest. Perhaps the most lopsided POTUS elections the US ever had.

They are not in full isolation. The lockdown was lifted even in Wuhan a few days ago. And another thing to remember here is that most of the new cases are being classified as "imported"... that means that they are being reported from individuals who recently returned to China from foreign nations. Now the government needs to make sure that these returnees don't spread the virus to the general population.

If we compare China with the United States now, there are a lot of interesting things that can be noticed. Chinese economy came under tremendous stress, but there was no news of mass layoffs and economic collapse. But within the initial few weeks, millions have become unemployed in the United States and the economy is near breaking point. This just shows that which economy is more resilient.

If the American economy undergoes recession, then the other countries will be affected even more. This is very evident from the fact that most of the global currencies have gone down against the US Dollar during the last few weeks. Here in India, the Indian Rupee has lost almost 8% of its value in a couple of months and the trend is looking very negative.

I would have supported your post if you had posted this two years ago. But not now. Only a very small percentage of the bounties are paying nowadays, and the duration has also increased from 4 weeks to 12-16 weeks on average. That means that the bounty hunter needs to put in more effort and the reward has gone down. I would rather prefer the airdrops.

Well.. I think I had already posted about this. Dozens of different pharmaceutical companies are working on the Coronavirus vaccine. Even here in India, 6 different pharma companies are trying to invent one. But the problem is that all of them are in development and the testing phase hasn't started yet. Testing and approval can take anywhere from 6 to 18 months.

My advice is this - don't even think that a vaccine will be available anytime soon. Think about other methods to stop this pandemic.

I am not much concerned about these shit projects. Good that they got stopped. Else a lot of the investors and bounty hunters might have lost their time and money. But overall, the pandemic is having an extremely negative impact on the cryptocurrency market. I expect the prices to go down further, as millions are becoming jobless everyday. They will be selling whatever assets they have to cover the daily expenses and utility bills.

Well.. the other boards (including the BCCI) may also follow this, as they don't have any other choice available. But the Australian board will be in big trouble, if they have to cancel the test series against India. Bilateral series against India is huge, and it has the potential to boost the CA coffers by up to $200 million. But if they have to cancel it, then the board will be in serious financial trouble.

Ethereum came very close in mid-2017. That was when the ICO hype was at its peak. And Bitcoin was in a weak spot, thanks to the BCH fork. If I am not wrong, the market share was like 33% for Bitcoin, and 31% for Ethereum. But that was the topmost level ETH could reach. The ICO market got destroyed in less than a year and along with that the altcoin bubble burst.

Yup... millions have lost their jobs during the last few weeks and the full impact will be felt sometime later. Most of the world leaders are witnessing a surge in their popularity ratings (Angela Merkel, Viktor Orban, Narendra Modi, Scott Morrison.etc), but I am not witnessing any similar spike for Trump. If the death toll does not stabilize within the next couple of weeks, then Trump will be toast.

Definitely not.

"Cryptocurrency" was a unique idea, which was first invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Bitcoin represents that idea. All the other altcoins (including Ethereum, Cardano, Ripple.etc) have tried to copy that idea with only minor changes. Some of them claims to be much advanced when compared to Bitcoin, but even with them the basic technology and idea remains the same. Under such circumstances, I can't foresee any other cryptocurrency overtaking Bitcoin, either in terms of popularity or acceptability.

This has been one of the sticky points in international cricket. It is very much clear that the Indian government is not going to give permission of any sort, to the Indian team to tour Pakistan. The political atmosphere is just too lighted up right now. But then, ultimately the ball is in the court of ICC and they have to take the decision regarding the point allocation. And ICC has made quite a few moves to antagonize the BCCI in recent times.

ROFLMAO... Seriously?

Dude, Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency which can't be controlled by any central bank or an individual. You are comparing such an asset to USDT, which is just a token issued by one of the cryptocurrency exchanges. They don't even conduct independent third party audit for Tether. No one knows whether the currency is 100% backed up with real assets or not.

See.. if IPL 2020 happens, then it needs to start within the next few months. Because we have IPL 2021 starting in March 2021. So in case they schedule a tournament during October or November this year, then there will be a lot of viewer fatigue and the TV revenues will go down massively for the next year's edition. For the BCCI, the best thing to do is to call off this years tournament. They can make it up, by organizing a larger tournament next year. For example, they can add two new teams and make it a 10-team tournament.

Ethereum is like an inflated balloon and has remained in that state ever since the ICO market got destroyed in 2018. If anyone thinks that a new ATH will be reached within the next 2-3 years, then I have to say that he is just day-dreaming. The hype which we had in 2017 is never going to repeat. And worse still, the promoters won't be able to keep ETH alive for too long by propping up the Ethereum 2.0 idea. People are just running out of patience with ETH 2.0. Do they have any concrete plans for that?

In theory, the rich boards can help the poor boards. It sounds so good. But in reality, it hasn't turned out to be a very good idea. For example, take the case of Zimbabwe. The ICC has allotted $90 million for them during 2015-23, and this is manytimes the amount that boards such as Ireland and Afghanistan receive. But have you witnessed any improvement in the situation in Zimbabwe? The money given to Zimbabwe is like celestial material being thrown up in a black hole. Almost all of it would be stolen by the corrupt officials.

Whether you want to continue to promote these projects or not, is entirely up to you. I stopped participating in bounty projects almost two years back. Looking back, I am happy that I made the decision relatively early. Nowadays, the participating in the bounty projects are not worth all the time and effort we put in. During that time, we can do a lot of other productive activity.