Here in India, very few of the landlords accept any form of digital payment. 90% of them want the rent in hard cash, because they never show this income in their IT returns. In metro cities such as Bangalore and Chennai, the situation has become really exploitative. The landlords demand one year rent in advance, if you want a decent house in a safe neighborhood. And the COVID 19 outbreak has made no impact on these exploitative practices.

The Pakistani team of 1992 was legendary. They were captained by their best ever captain (Imran Khan, who is now the Prime Minister of Pakistan). The Pakistani pace battery back then was probably the best at that time. They had bowlers such as Wasim Akram and Aaqib Javed. Even the batting lineup was very strong, including Inzamam-ul-Haq, Aamir Sohail, Javed Miandad, Rameez Raja and Moin Khan. 

Even holding the coins that you have listed is risky. ETH lost more than 90% of its value in 2018, due to the destruction of the ICO market. The less we talk about other alts such as XMR, that much better. Cardano lost an unbelievable 98% of its value in 2018. And there is no guarantee that it is not going to happen again. Even Bitcoin has lost more than 50% of its value so far this year.

They should look at the positives. Only 3 matches were cancelled. The remainder saw huge crowd response and the revenues were much higher than what they were anticipating. On top of that, the tournament went nicely, without any safety issues. Dozens of foreign players, including some of the T20 stars took part in the matches. Given these facts, I would say that the PSL 2020 was a grand success.

There are a number of very good bounty campaign managers here. But once in a while they also become victim of the scam projects. There is no ICO with a 100% guarantee. So the bounty campaign manager, along with the investors and the bounty hunters need to take a certain amount of risk. But from what I have seen, these managers get a lot of unfair criticism if the project fails.

IPL 2019 had a total of 60 matches, with each team playing a minimum of 14. So ideally of they can schedule 2 matches per day, then it may get completed within a month. But the problem is that the TV revenues will go down, if we have two matches on weekdays.


LOL.. Olympics happens once every four years and therefore they can postpone it by an year. But IPL is an annual event and they can't postpone it. There is another edition of the tournament scheduled for 2021.

I don't really care about these "hypothetical results". Let's stick with the real game, rather than transgressing to the virtual world. Already the popularity of physical sports is going down, because today's youth don't want any physical activity and they are hooked to their mobile phones. The last thing I want is real cricket to get replaced with virtual cricket. I understand that all the tournaments and bilateral tours have been either cancelled or suspended due to the COVID 19 outbreak. But I would rather wait for a month or two, rather than choosing these virtual and hypothetical games.

BTW, I was missing both Royse777 and JSRAW. Nice to see you guys back!!!

Some of my friends were among the early adopters. A few of them got their first coins in 2012. And back then the prices were really low, and most of the users were being careless with their coins. A lot of them lost their holdings by storing them in exchange wallets, or in online wallets where 2FA was not enabled. Even I made the same mistake, when I started collecting coins in 2017. But have to say at this point that I was more lucky when compared to the other users in retrieving lost coins.

Being an Indian, I would say that the Indian government doesn't hold any blind hatred towards cryptocurrencies. India is a country with a huge grey/black economy, and therefore the government is concerned about the usage of cryptocurrencies for purposes such as tax evasion and crime. And I have to say that their concerns are very logical. In the recent months, we have seen some of the hostile policies towards cryptocurrencies being removed. And that makes me optimistic about the future.

Nothing can give 100% protection against the hackers, but it is possible to have 99.9999% protection. And I think that it is as good as 100%. If you take all the basic precautions, then only in some rare cases (such as the recent $45 million robbery involving BTC and BCH from Chinese user Zhoujianfu through SIM swap) the hackers can steal the coins in your wallets. 

Well.. the stock markets have gone down by almost 40% during the past two months. We are going through the first economic recession since 2008. Within a month or so, many companies (mostly airlines, hotels.etc) may go bankrupt and we may see millions losing their full-time jobs. Under such circumstances I can foresee a revenue dip for the online gambling sites, along with all other legitimate business.

If they don't like online gambling, then they can just stay at home with their family. 

On a lighter note, here in India various sources are claiming that extra-marital affairs have gone down by 99%. Married couples are being forced to stay at home, and their paramours are finding it really hard to satisfy the urges.  But then we have the remaining 1%, who are courageous enough to continue with their illegitimate relationships... even at the time of COVID 19 epidemic.

The next block reward halving is less than two months away. Let's hope that the supply-demand equilibrium would change for the better, once the new block reward set in. But to be honest, I am not expecting an immediate spike. Remember what happened in 2012 and 2016, when we had similar block reward halving events. The spike came 6 to 12 months after the halving event.

From what I have heard, the rules being laid for the lockdown are extremely strict. No one can venture outside their own homes, without explicit permission from the authorities. And I don't think that they'll lift the lockdown completely after just 21 days. The restrictions may be eased in a phased manner. And for the IPL, the BCCI needs to get all the arrangements done, at least a week before the tournament. For example, they can't get the pitch ready in a day or two. It takes at least a week.

Authorities have said that people should not step outside their houses. This is impractical as well as unenforceable. In a country of 1.4 billion people (including some 30 million illegal immigrants), how can the authorities make sure that everyone stays at home? Even if this lock-down succeeds, I am not sure whether everyone is having enough food and other essential supplies with them to survive for that long.

During both the fights, I was closely following the scores predicted by various media channels such as CNN and MSNBC. All of the major channels had GGG leading comfortably. But when the official scores from the judges came, it went in favor of Alvarez. I have seen this manytimes and I would say that what happened to GGG has happened to many talented boxers before. A few that comes to my mind right now are Jessie Vargas vs Khabib Allakhverdiev, Timothy Bradley vs Manny Pacquiao and Lennox Lewis vs Evander Holyfield.

There can be arguments both against and in favor of this. Bitcoin satisfies certain conditions which qualify for usage as a store of value. For example, it is protected from inflation through the principle of controlled supply, and at the same time it is not controlled by any of the central banks or financial institutions. But at the same time, its volatility and limited liquidity goes against the usage for such purpose.

You have to draw a line. In today's world, each and everything has a price. If he is included in the Australian squad (which in all probability will happen), then Cummins will be in dire dilemma. The amount we are talking here ($2.2 million) is almost 10 times the amount he can get from playing for Australia for an entire year. I am just saying that it is going to be a very tough decision.

I would applaud your choices on altcoins. Most of them have good future potential. BNB is the exchange coin of Binance, which is the largest cryptocurrency exchange if we consider the volumes and turnover. ETH is regarded as the king of altcoins, ever since its listing in 2014. Even now, they have the best development team among all the altcoins. Chainlink is one of the most potential new altcoins and it may give good returns in the near future.

Manny and GGG are not in the same weight class. But GGG can take a lot of inspiration from the Manny Pacquiao vs. Keith Thurman fight. In the beginning, the betting odds were heavily favoring Thurman, but then they changed slightly after huge number of Filipinos made their bets in favor of Manny. But very few really thought that the 40-year old Manny would be able to beat a young boxer such as Thurman.