Then there may be rare exceptions. Prison gangs are very active, even in federal prisons. And it is not just the Italians, but also the Latinos and East European gangs who are involved in this. For these gangs, it is easier to launder money, because they are trans-national, unlike the local gangs such as Aryan Circle or the Crips. And not all the federal prisons have the same level of security. For example, ADX Florence and USP Marion can't be equated to low-security prisons such as Marianna Federal Correctional Institution.

Latest stats from 24th August 2021.

Total market cap: $2,155,365,760,218 (+13.02%)

Bitcoin: $935,990,986,442 (43.426%)
Bitcoin forks: $17,685,623,477 (0.821%)
Stablecoins: $115,529,035,643 (5.360%)
Altcoins: $1,072,611,876,911 (49.765%)
Tethered BTC: $13,548,237,745 (0.629%)

This is the change compared to my last post:

Bitcoin: -0.762%
Bitcoin forks: -0.042%
Stablecoins: -0.638%
Altcoins: +1.456%
Tethered BTC: -0.013%

This is just another attempt to get gambling banned by the anti-gambling lobby. Sometimes I wonder why these lobby losers don't do a job for a living. The real reason is that it is always easier to set up casinos and gambling joints in the poor areas, as the rent is low and manpower is available in sufficient quantities. Casinos actually help the people in these areas, by providing them with direct and indirect employment. If we listen to the anti-gambling nutjobs, then these people will lose their jobs and will be forced to beg on the street. Perhaps that is exactly what they want.

A truly democratic organization can never be centralized. Because centralized means only a limited number of people or entities taking all the decisions (federal government for example). What we are talking about is a decentralized lobbying group, which will be spread out across multiple countries. I will give you a recent example. In 2018, the financial secretary of India (Subhash Chandra Garg) came up with his stupid idea of jailing anyone having possession of cryptocurrency up to 10 years. The finance minister announced about implementing this plan in 2020, and the bill was listed in the parliament website in 2021. There was a huge campaign in social media campaigns such as Twitter against this bill, and finally the saner members of the government decided not to proceed with the bill in its present form.

There is a wrong assumption being made by the OP. He feels that it is the young people who make mistakes for most part in the cryptocurrency sector. However, I have to say that the reality is very different. Look at various Ponzi schemes which involved cryptocurrency, such as OneCoin and PlusToken. Most of those who lost their money were middle-aged or elderly. I would say that OP should remove the "young" word from the title. Inexperienced users are more likely to make mistakes, and it doesn't matter whether they are young or old.

Well.. so many countries have come up with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), but it needs to be seen how successful they will be. China was the first, and they introduced the e-CNY (digital Yuan) shitcoin. And immediately after that, they implemented a crackdown against Bitcoin in China. But these measures didn't resulted in any improvement in the acceptability level of e-CNY. The writing on the wall is clear. Whether they like it or not, CBDCs will be considered as a variant of fiat currency and they will not be able to replace genuine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Not many prefer Binance Smart Chain, because they believe that it is centralized (although I don't completely agree with that assumption). Cardano is a very formidable competitor to Ethereum and miles ahead as far as technology is concerned. And recently ADA prices have gone up by a lot, as the acceptability levels are rising steeply. Now coming to Monero, I have a feeling that it is a failed project. It attracted too much notoriety to be successful. And now even the promoters seems to have given up. 

LOL.. I would agree. I was in my early teens when Amazon went ahead with the IPO (1997). There were dozens of similar IPOs happening every month with NASDAQ, and no one paid any special attention to Amazon. And it should also be remembered that the vast majority of the IPOs returned a loss to the investor in the long term (i.e after the dot com bubble burst). So it was like a lottery. Similar to users investing in new cryptocurrency projects now. If you invest in 20-25 different project, one of them may provide you with 100x returns.

What are you talking about? It is not the responsibility of the WHO to create vaccines. Only the pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca can do that. What the WHO can do is to make sure that effective vaccines reach all the counties, so that there is no severe shortage of the medication. Companies in certain sectors (hotels, aviation, tourism.etc) have gone bankrupt, and there is not much we can do about it. Full economic recovery will occur only when the pandemic is contained. And unfortunately, that is at least 6-7 months away.

As things stand now, anyone can make a post in the ANN section, and there is no restriction based on your rank or activity. A lot of scammers have made use of this. Also, for posting the ANN thread or bounty campaign thread for a new project, you don't need to escrow any amount. The reason being given is that if such a requirement is being made, then genuine projects which are short of cash will find it difficult to go online. I disagree with this argument. If the promoters can't even make a deposit of $100 on their own, how they are planning to successfully manage projects with soft-caps of $50 million or $100 million?

LOL.. look at the opposition as well. Do you really think that the West Indies team is any better (especially in the test format)? Today is the fifth day of the match, and West Indies has already lost one wicket (Kieran Powell). At this point, Pakistan definitely has a higher chance of winning the match, especially given the stellar performance from Mohammad Abbas and Shaheen Shah Afridi earlier. It is a joke that West Indies is still allowed to play test matches. After the (forced) retirement of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, they are without the services of a quality test batsman.

As such, there are no pure capitalist countries in the world (maybe with the exception of a few island nations where there is no income tax). Even in countries like the United States, the marginal tax rates can be as high as 60%. The government is taking away money from successful people and then distributing a part of it among the unproductive population. Now this is what socialism does. The difference here is that the government is not taking away 100% as in the case with socialist countries, but only 20% to 60% depending on your income tax slab.

It is strange. Their official site shows that they have administered 179.09 doses per 100 people, which is enough to vaccinate 90% of the population. If they are witnessing so many new cases (the total population of UAE is less than 10 million), then it means that at least some of the vaccines that they have used is ineffective. And that doesn't surprise me, as during the initial stages they were heavily using the Sinopharm vaccine. I am worried about the IPL and the T20 World Cup. If they impose lockdowns, then these tournaments may get postponed again.

Jamaicans are no.1 as far as short distance running is concerned (for both the genders). And that's why it came as a huge surprise when an Italian won the gold medal (in men's race). Ironically none of the Jamaican athletes qualified for the final. I was hoping for a good performance from Yohan Blake, but he finished at #6 in the semi-finals. Anyway, Jamaican athletes completely dominated the women's race, by bagging all three medals. Elaine Thompson-Herah   won the Olympic gold medal with 10.61 seconds, and then Diamond League with 10.54s.

As mentioned in many of the previous posts, this is one of the issues with vaccination. And we are already into the third quarter of this year. Do you really think that 2022 will be free from COVID? I don't think so. Countries such as Portugal and Israel have achieved greater than 80% vaccination rate. But even these countries are witnessing a sharp spike in new infections, especially those caused by the delta variant. With each passing day, I am getting more and more skeptical about 2022. I have a feeling that it is going to be as bad as 2021.

Trade volumes are always manipulated. Binance has a large number of coins that are outside the top-100 list in their platform, and order books for these coins are distorted. The only accurate way to measure the trade volumes is to measure the withdrawals and deposits that are being made in fiat. And for trading volumes, I would like to compare specific pairs, like BTC/USD and ETH/USD. But the issue with Binance is that they only have BTC/USDT or BTC/BUSD pair instead of BTC/USD (same with Ethereum as well). I would give more weightage to the numbers from BTC/USD trade, to those from BTC/USDT. Because this can be very hard to manipulate.

There is another way of looking in to it. There are almost 8 billion humans in this planet and even then all of them are unique in terms of skills, intelligence and technological knowhow. According to nature's rule, those with better skills should survive and the rest should perish. Humans have changed this equation and allowed everyone to survive. But history has taught us that whenever you disrupt nature's laws, the consequences would be severe. And that is the reason why socialist nations are some of the poorest in the world.

Sri Lanka is currently witnessing a huge spike in new cases of COVID 19, and therefore this was expected (the government there just announced a complete lockdown for 10 days, which may be extended further). At least compared to this, Pakistan seems to be faring much better. I don't know whether Afghanistan will be able to put up a good fight. The players are also impacted by the civil unrest and even the IPL stars are saying that they are worried about family members back home.

LOL.. you seems to be still hopeful of a result. Maybe it is theoretically possible. Some 150 overs remain (I really doubt whether we will get that many, due to rain interruptions). So if they can get West Indies all out within the next 10 overs, then hopefully they will be leading by 150-160 runs. They can bat for another 30-35 overs and make 150 runs, and that would set the target at 300-320. So in the 4th innings, West Indies need to chase 300 plus target in 100 plus overs. But any further rain interruption will disrupt these calculations.

That may be possible in the third world nations, but definitely not in the United States. Xanaxman (Ryan Farace) is currently serving a 5-year sentence in one of the most secure federal prisons in the United States. If he was in some state or county prison, then I would have agreed that there was a minute chance of this happening. You have no idea about federal prisons, if you claim that prisoners can get smartphones inside their cells. From what I heard, his father laundered the coins for him.