I have to say that KYC is being implemented in ICOs in a very one sided manner. For example, a bounty hunter who may get $5 or $10 has to undergo the KYC process, while the promoters in many cases manages to avoid it. I am not saying that KYC helps to reduce the incidents of fraud in bounty projects, by removing multiple entries by the same person. But for that purpose, there are far better methods available.

VPN is not 100% safe. I don't know much about NordVPN and Hidemyass, but the authoritarian governments have targeted these VPN providers recently. Even TOR doesn't offer 100% protection, but unless you are involving in any illegal stuff, I don't think that you have to worry. But the main problem with TOR is that it is too slow. For live betting, it can be very difficult to use TOR.

Bounty hunters can only help with the advertisement of the project. So their role in the ultimate success of any project is quite limited. If a project has to succeed, then they have to give special attention to the timely development and strict adherence to the timeline. I have seen a lot of very good projects failing upon their listing in an exchange, because the promoters lose their interest.

I don't know much about the cheerleaders for the women's matches. But I guess in the WBL, they have the women cheerleaders. That said, here in India perhaps cricket is the only sport in which there is a gender lag right now. There are well established women's leagues, in almost all the other sports. And that includes badminton, boxing, wrestling, tennis, football and hockey. I heard that even the Women's Kabaddi Challenge is doing quite well.

Normally I don't swap much nowadays. Earlier, when I used to get bounty rewards (back in 2018), I used to convert my rewards to either BTC or ETH. But I am not participating in bounties for almost two years now. A few months back, I converted some of my BTC to BCH. Not a big fan of BCH, but at that point it looked as if BCH was in for a major pump. And a pump occurred just 2-3 months after I swapped.

Sports betting has come to a complete halt now, because hardly any matches are going on due to the COVID 19 outbreak. I used to make bets in cricket, football and boxing, but for the last 2-3 weeks, almost all the matches have been either postponed or cancelled. And even worse, here in India the government has declared a 21-day lockdown and as a result we can't even get out of our houses now.

Well... if that is the case, then a basic question arises. In case the adoption has increased significantly, why the prices went down by 40% during the last two months? It should be the opposite scenario, right? I am not witnessing any large scale increase in adoption. During the last couple of months, there have been a total of zero news articles mentioning some large retailer or shop deciding to accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment.

In my opinion, the top 5 franchise T20 leagues are (in decreasing order):

1. IPL
2. BBL
3. Natwest T20 Blast
4. CPL
5. PSL

I can see PSL overtaking the CPL in the near future, but one advantage for the CPL is that it is quite popular in some of the foreign markets (such as India and United States). PSL had a wonderful year in 2020, but it has miles to go before it can offer meaningful competition for IPL or BBL.

Same here. Even I have around 40 different tokens from various bounty campaigns, and out of them only 3-4 are worth more than $10. Others are completely worthless, or worth very small amounts. Now who will take the effort to register in little-known exchanges and then to go through the KYC process, in order to exchange this $10 worth of tokens to either Bitcoin or Ethereum?

See the irony... almost the entire world is fighting for its very survival and some people are more concerned about sports. We had more than 2,300 new deaths from the COVID 19 epidemic today and probably by the end of the day the number will be close to 3,000. It's tragic that a lot of people are yet to realize the seriousness of the situation. Olympics will be held in 2021, once the situation is contained. There is no need to complain over it.

Star Sports purchased the IPL right at a rate of $510 million per year. I am not sure how much of it will be reimbursed by the insurers, but the BCCI is going to take a huge hit. Adding in the franchise fees and sponsorship, the total loss may exceed $1 billion. I am not sure about the insurance deductibles and limits, but I guess BCCI will have to bear at least 50% of the losses (someone please correct me in case I'm wrong).

BTW, you guys need to take a look at this:

https://www.insidesport.co/no-insurance-protection-against-coronavirus-to-ipl-stakeholders-insurance-expert/

The situation is getting worse with every passing day. Even here in India, there is a lot of panic. The government and the authorities are doing all that they can, but the number of new cases is still on the increase. I won't be very surprised if the 3 weeks lockdown gets extended to 3 months. And with that, the jobs will be under threat and the economy will be in complete destruction.

No major update has come from the BCCI today regarding the IPL. However, today there was a statement from Mithali Raj (India women's ODI captain), who asked the BCCI to consider starting a mini-WIPL (similar to the WBBL). I don't know why the BCCI has delayed the WIPL giving the silliest of the excuses. Sourav Ganguly was saying a few months ago that BCCI "would consider" holding the WIPL in 2023. For me, his statement sounded like deliberate delaying tactic.

Gold is becoming scarce, but if you check the charts then you can see that the mine production of gold is not declining. The amounts have remained remarkably stable over the years. The production in South Africa and some of the other nations have declined during the past decade or so. But that has been more than neutralized by the increase from Russia, Amazonian nations and even China.

In the near future, the scarcity of Bitcoin is going to increase at a faster level when compared to that of gold.

No surprise there. When you ban something, the demand actually increases. Highest level of drug abuse can be found in those countries which have the strictest punishment for drug usage. Similarly, the worst gambling addiction can be found in those countries, where all forms of gambling are illegal. What happens is that the sector will be forced to go underground and then it will come under the control of various mafias.

Since the outbreak was confirmed a few months ago, the exchange rates have fallen by close to 40%. And this is comparable to the drop we had in similar markets such as equities. Even crude oil has lost more than 50% of its value. Until the situation is contained in major economies such as the United States and the European Union, we may not witness a recovery in the prices.

The situation is getting worse with every passing day. We still have another 4 days to go in this month, and the total number of infected people have hit the 560,000 mark. For comparison, one month ago the figure was 86,604 (on February 29). That means that the infection rate has increased by more than 6 times. What if the situation continues next month, with another 6x rise in the infections? I am getting really skeptical about the situation.

It's not very surprising. If you are an early adopter and the asset in which you are investing in performs well, then you may get 100x or 1000x returns. Some of my friends, who were lucky enough to invest in Bitcoin in 2012, got almost 1,000x returns from their investment. The same goes for a lot of assets, such as the IPOs of Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, IBM.etc. And the same is true even for the Ethereum ICO.

^^^^ If they goes ahead with a mini-IPL , then it is going to be a historic blunder. First of all, many of the international players won't be available. And adding to that, the revenue will be much less than what they are expecting, since the duration will be curtailed. And additionally, any mini-IPL this year can have a negative impact on the revenues for next year (for IPL 2021). It's not rocket science. All Sourav Ganguly has to do, is to call a press conference and inform that the IPL for this year is cancelled. They need to reimburse the sponsors, franchises and the players. But given how vast their reserves are, I don't think that it is going to be a problem for the BCCI.

Ideally long-term holders should not worry about the price too much. I consider myself a long-term holder, but I can't resist from checking the prices every now and then. My conservative estimate is that in a typical day I check the Bitcoin prices at least 20 to 30 times (either in my laptop, or in my smartphone). And with everyone working from home now, staying away from this habit has become even more difficult.