This is the second time that the supreme court is quashing regressive measures by the government. Earlier, the government tried to make national ID card mandatory for the purchase of mobile SIM cards. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional, as it infringes the privacy of the individual. That said, it needs to be seen whether the cryptocurrency users will continue to face harassment from the authorities, or the situation will become better.

Physical cash is one of the main routes for Coronavirus transmission. The banknotes and coins are being used by dozens of individuals every week and the virus remains in them and contaminates who ever touches them. There were reports from China about the government burning banknotes, in a bid to contain the spread of the virus. I even read about reports where the government was planning to ban physical cash altogether, so that the virus spread could be slowed down.

Bounty hunters put a lot of effort and time in popularizing these ICOs and in most of the cases, they get very low rewards or no rewards at all. And even after all this, users like you would love to blame them using the "dumping" excuse. Let me ask you one thing. In most of the ICOs, the bounty pool is anywhere between 0.5% to 2% of the total pool. Is it possible to crash the price of a token by dumping just 0.5% of the circulating supply? It is the promoters who do the dumping in the majority of the instances, but the blame always fall on the bounty hunters.

Some of my friends became addicted to gambling in the past. A few of them recovered from that, and for the remainder the final outcome of their addiction was quite tragic. From what I have seen, I would say that most of the time if a person feels lonely, then there is a high risk that he will get addicted to something. So the best thing to do in such circumstances is to engage yourselves with something productive. 

Ethereum is technologically much more advanced when compared to Bitcoin. But as we have seen during the past 4-5 years, that factor alone is not enough to make Ethereum the no.1 cryptocurrency in terms of user-base and market capitalization. Also, one of the major applications of ETH was in the ICO market. But that sector is not in good health right now.

This is very surprising, because till now there have been just 6 cases of COVID 19 in Pakistan. But then, the crowd attendance may take a hit because of the panic that was created. Even here in India, a lot of people are avoiding commercial establishments, such as movie theaters, sports events, shopping malls and even parks. Some of the schools have declared holidays for the students.

Currently, the altcoins are surviving because of Bitcoin only. They are not being used widely in spheres where Bitcoin can't be used. Their exchange rates also show a high level of interlink with that of Bitcoin. And I don't think that the situation will remain viable for long. Bitcoin will start consolidating market cap at the expense of alts, if this situation prevails.

It was quite unexpected. I was expecting a whitewash, but in favor of Australia. But what happened was the opposite of it. Anyway, it was good to see the South Africans beating a big 3 team after a long time. BTW, I don't know what happened to the Australian bowlers such as Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins. They are the world's best, but they could not perform up to the expectations.

I have said this many times. It is up to the bounty hunters to make a serious introspection. The bounty managers and ICO promoters are adding more and more one sided rules in the terms and conditions. The current bounty setup is very exploitative and it is biased against the bounty hunters. The best thing to do is to boycott all the campaigns that have such exploitative terms.

It will be having an impact where physical casinos are permitted, such as Macau and Monaco. But here in India, gambling is prohibited and most of us resort to online casinos that are based in foreign nations. And here at least, COVID 19 is likely to have a negative impact. The ongoing economic slow down can have a negative impact on the revenues of online casinos as well.

It can be the reverse case as well. Back in 2018-19, the prices went down by a lot and one of the reasons was the proliferance of the scam ICOs. Even the established coins took a hit from the prevailing negative sentiments in the market, which were in turn triggered by these scam projects. And even now, there is no scarcity of scams and the market continues to suffer as a result.

The Indian women's team performed well beyond everyone's expectations. India may be among one of the super-powers in the men's cricket. But women's cricket in India lack even a single professional league inside the country. In Australia they have the WBBL, which is regarded as the top competition among the women. In England also, they have a similar league. I don't know why the BCCI is not starting a WIPL, despite having tons of cash in their accounts.

The ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020 is coming to an end. The final will be played between India and Australia tomorrow (12:30 pm IST). Ellyse Perry's absence due to a hamstring injury is going to severely cripple Australia, as she has been their best player for almost a decade now. Without Perry, it will be difficult for the Australian bowlers to contain Shafali Verma, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana.

For Zimbabwe, 3 of their professional players were included in the playing XI (Brendan Taylor, Sean Williams and Sikandar Raza), and still they lost the match by a big margin. The mix of these professionals with amateurs is not turning out well for Zimbabwe. They need to convince more of their professionals, such as Kyle Jarvis, Craig Ervine and Ryan Burl to play for the national team.

We have discussed that incident many times here in the past and there is no need to resume the debate again. All of us know the real reason that triggered his retirement from international cricket. That said, if de Villiers comes out of his retirement then it is going to give a big boost for South Africa. He performed really well in franchise T20 cricket in the recent months, playing for Brisbane Heat and Tshwane Spartans. 

Unfortunately the vast majority of the airdrops nowadays are not genuine and many of them collect the information from users (ERC-20 wallet address, email IDs.etc) and then sell this data to the third parties. And a few of them even redirect the users to various phishing websites and a number of users have lost their valuable funds to these scams.

I am someone who did bounties for more than two years and I would agree with your post. Whenever I received rewards from these campaigns, I sold the majority and converted them to either BTC or ETH. I kept only a small part of the reward (20%-30%) as tokens. In all the cases, the tokens lost their value in the long term and many of them became worthless.

^^^^ Let's not debate whether Kohli or Smith is the better batsmen. That said, there can be no denying that Kohli is going through a rough patch right now, irrespective of the format (I am not ignoring his 254 against South Africa and 136 against Bangladesh, but they came against weak opposition in flat tracks). On the other hand, Smith has scored runs against quality opposition in conditions more favorable for the bowlers.

Anti-climax at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup. The semi-final between England and India got washed away and India qualified for the finals thanks to their stellar performance in the group stage. The final of the 2019 CWC came to my mind. England won the finals, after the score got tied back then. But they were unlucky this time around.

BTW, Australia won the other semi-final, which was also affected by rain. So the final match will be played between Australia and India.

The Australian total was not bad. They made 271 in 50 overs. The surface at Mangaung Oval was favoring batsmen and bowlers equally, and in such circumstances it was not a bad total. It was the weak bowling which cost Australia the match. None of their bowlers, including Starc and Cummins could trouble the South African batsmen after the initial success.