Considering the state of altcoins right now, I would rather allocate 90% of my funds to Bitcoin and the remaining 10% to altcoins. Those days are long gone, when useless altcoins used to give 100x and 200x ROI per year purely due to speculation. Even established altcoins are struggling now, and during the next year (2020) we may witness a lot many of these alts dying out completely.

Out of this, Imran Tahir and Ravindra Jadeja seems to be confirmed slots and others may get a chance only if someone out of these two gets injured. And the 3rd choice is going to be Mitchell Santner, and not Chawla (since his batting skills are better). I don't understand the point in splurging almost $1 million on a player, who may not get a single game during the whole tournament.

Most of these projects had just one purpose. And that was to make the promoters rich. And in most of the cases, the original purpose is realized. The promoters dumped most of their tokens after triggering the pump-and-dump cycles and in the end most of the tokens were left with the investors. The development stopped after the promoters made their exit. Now the investors have the useless tokens with them, and they can't sell these tokens as they have been delisted from the major exchanges.

Many of the little known altcoins have gone down by more than 90% so far in 2019. I was a bit luckier, as I sold most of my coins in 2018, by converting them to either ETH or BTC. Had I held on to them, then I would have incurred very heavy losses. I strongly suspect that we are witnessing a phase of market consolidation. Useless alts are getting nuked and their market caps are getting concentrated on a select bunch of established coins.

I am not sure whether the ICC will deduct points from Bangladesh for their refusal to tour Pakistan. Will they do the same to teams such as England and Australia? I am sure that they will avoid touring Pakistan in the future, making the excuse of risk from terrorist attacks. Also, India hasn't toured Pakistan for more than a decade now. ICC can't make exceptions and punish Bangladesh.

The recent drop in the Litecoin exchange rates have been sharper compared to the same with Bitcoin. And I have my own reasons to believe that Litecoin will not go up when the next bull run occurs for Bitcoin. The acceptability and adoption for LTC has gone down over the recent months, while many of its competitors have surged ahead. The development is also going on at snail's pace.

It depends on individual perception. For some people, if more than 20% of a particular group is consisted of scams, then they would label the entire group as unworthy of investing in. This threshold may vary from person to person. Some may even regard a particular group as worth investing in, even if it is known that 90% of that group is composed of scams. In the end, it is entirely up to the individual.

I read the article and in this case I have to blame the investors rather than the criminal who ran away with the coins. I understand that greed is a basic human characteristic. But we all need to make sure that we don't incur any loses as a result of this greed. When someone offers you 2x or 10x returns in a month or so, you should first study whether his plan is viable or not. It is tragic that people continues to lose their hard earned money in these scams, despite information regarding the well publicized scams such as Plus Token available all over the internet.

Investing in lesser known altcoins always involve a certain amount of risk. Many of these coins run purely on speculations, as they don't have any real-life usage. They may undergo a few pump-and-dump cycles and during this time the promoters may be able to offload most of their holdings. And once that is done, the interest for that particular coin or token in the market will go down and in due course the trade volumes will decline and it will get delisted from the exchanges.

If you are talking about day trading, then I have to agree with you. Doing day trade along with a full time job is next to impossible. If you do that, then the chances are that you will fail in both. On the other hand, it is perfectly OK to indulge in long-term investment along with a full time job. Because the research and analysis needed for such investment can be done during the spare time you get between the full-time job. 

I heard that there are some issues ongoing between Pakistan Cricket Board and the BCB regarding the schedule of test matches between the two teams. BCB wants the test matches to be moved to UAE, while the PCB has stated that there is no question of Pakistani home matches taking place in a third country again, given how successfully they organized the Sri Lankan tour.

Both are not perfect solution to solving the problem of volatility. Bitcoin can go up or down by as much as 10% in a single day. You can't use such an asset as a store of value. Similarly, storing gold is not very easy. Storing it in the physical form can attract unwanted attention from criminals, especially in economically broke countries such as Venezuela and Argentine. Storing paper gold is also not the best option, as you can't trust the banks from these countries.

I am not sure whether the BCCI will succeed in their efforts for a new tournament. Already they are in talks with the other big 3 nations for a quadrangular tournament in 2021. Ganguly want to go back to the Big 3 era, when the three boards pocketed 90% of the ICC revenue. However, yesterday there was a statement from the Cricket Australia head, stating that he would put the future of the sport ahead of any shot-time monetary reward.

There are people out there who are unable to make online payments. What's your take on them? Making online payments need a smartphone and an internet connection. As far as I know, the government is not giving away these for free. Also, if they make such payment methods mandatory, then they need to give training to people (especially the elderly) on how to use them. And this is one of the reasons why China went back on enforcing digital payments recently.

If I was the franchise owner, then I wouldn't give anything more than the base price for Piyush Chawla (20 Lakh or around $30,000). I heard that it was Dinesh Karthik who went all guns blazing for Chawla in the auctions and there may be something behind the curtains that people may not understand. I don't want to go in detail, but "DK" is very close to N Srinivasan and his name was heard a lot of times when CSK was banned in 2015 for match fixing.

So far this year, the market share of Bitcoin in the cryptocurrency market has increased from 45% to around 69%. And most of this increase has occurred after 2019 April. Investors are realizing that most of the current altcoins don't have any practical usage, and they are trying to survive by leaching off Bitcoin. There is a lot of movement from alts to BTC (i.e people are selling their alts to purchase Bitcoin).

From what I have seen during the past many years... having a good idea is not a guarantee for getting good returns in the future. A lot many of the good projects have failed at the market. Sometimes they go down as a result of the slow pace of development, but there were also cases when good projects went down for no fault of theirs. The depressed state of the market has a disproportionately negative impact on these new projects. 

In 2013 and 2017, the ATH was reached in mid-December and the dumping started by the third week. By the time of X'mas, the exchange rates were down at least 20-30% from the ATH levels. Now I am not sure whether this pattern will repeat this time or not, but there is a strong chance as a lot of the users will be selling their coins to fund their year-end vacations.

It is easier said than done. The biggest problem is the vague legal definition regarding cryptocurrencies in many of the third world nations. Here in India, a few months back a few guys installed a Bitcoin ATM (in the city of Bangalore). But within hours, the authorities confiscated the ATM and arrested the promoters. They even seized their mobile phones and laptops. The authorities were claiming that the ATM was opened without obtaining a license. The promoters on the other hand claimed that they had requested for a license, but the authorities were not willing to issue the same.

You are right. The format for this World Test championship is really confusing. Some of the matches are being counted as a part of the World Test championship, and some are not. For example, the two-test series between New Zealand and England was not considered as a part of the championship, while the two-test series between India and Bangladesh which went on at the same time was a part of it.