The OP was more concerned about the altcoins. We are not much bothered about Bitcoin, because we are certain that it will go up at some point of time in the future. But the same can't be said about many of the altcoins and the investors are starting to run out of patience. Also, altcoins have gone down even more than Bitcoin, and therefore the pressure is greater on those who made the choice of investing in the alts.

A taxless society is only possible if we expect no spending from the government. Also, all the government employees need to be volunteers (including administrators, policemen, soldiers, teachers.etc). And do you think that it is practical? It is possible to eradicate income tax and take care of the government expenses using the indirect taxes (GST, VAT.etc). But at present, I don't think that it is possible to eliminate all types of tax. 

Are you sure about the exchange? From what I heard, it was the South Korean exchange Upbit, which got hacked. Some $53 million worth of Ethereum were stolen, along with considerable amounts of TRX and BTT. But the hack occurred two days back, and if you remember there was a considerable decline in the exchange rates back then. The prices started recovering only today.

From what I have seen, I would say that in most cases that is not true. Here in India, until a few decades ago things used to be like that. Married men used to be happy and marriage discords and divorces used to be a rarity. But things have changed now. With the expansion of radical feminism, many of the marriages are ending up in separation or divorce and the husband is left penniless and broke.

But then, it is a very difficult choice. Unmarried couples are not welcome in India (at least in most of the cities). So in case you want a stable relationship, you have no option other than marriage.

Economically it may not make much sense. But from a government point of view, it can make a lot of sense. They can spend a few billion USD and destroy the credibility and reputation of Bitcoin forever. But spending such a huge amount of money from this purpose can never be defended before the public, unless they can prove a credible link between either crime or terrorism with Bitcoin. Well... they will never get such a link, because it does not exist.

Some of the West Indian players (Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell.etc) are among the most paid cricket players in the world. But the problem is that these players get most of their salaries from the T20 franchises and not from the cricket boards. In football also we can witness the same situation, but there international matches have lost all the relevance. It is the football clubs which reign supreme in football. Do we want such a situation with cricket as well? T20 format has given too much power to the franchises.

Halving can have some impact, but I am afraid that this time the impact will be more limited when compared to the previous two events. The first thing to consider is that the prices have already jumped by almost 200% so far this year, probably in anticipation for the upcoming halving event. And secondly, the ratio of annual mining output to the total circulating supply will be much lower this time.

How did they became rich? There can be several ways to become rich. So unless you give the details, it is difficult to reach a conclusion. And also, there is a chance that marriage played no role in them becoming rich. What if this particular individual became rich as a result of his own effort, rather than any help, support or inspiration from his spouse or the relatives of the spouse?

The 5th round is over and as of now ATK and Jamshedpur with 10 points each are leading the table. The NorthEast United FC had a golden chance of topping the table, but they couldn't win the match against Mumbai City despite scoring the first goal. They conceded two goals in the first half, followed by a lacklustre performance in the second half.

His performance was above average during the last two IPL seasons, but as of now he is not the first choice keeper to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The selectors and the captain favors Rishabh Pant for that slot. Only if Samson can prove that his keeping and batting is better than Pant, he will be able to find a permanent slot in the Indian squad.

It was expected from Afghanistan, but still disappointing. Remember that this is a home match for the Afghans and the West Indies is not fielding a full strength squad. I used to believe that Afghanistan is one of the emerging teams in world cricket. But the results show that they are not yet ready to face the original test nations, at least in the test format. 

The term "continuous development" has become a rarity in the current market. Very few of the projects have managed to honor the previously decided timelines. In many of the cases, the promoters vanished as soon as they could dump their tokens. And the most tragic thing is that this included many of the promising projects which came online during 2017 and 2018. 

Things are not going as per the expected lines in the cryptocurrency market. Despite a number of positive outcomes, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization has gone down by more than 30% during the past few weeks. I am not sure about what will happen in 2020, but so far this year it prove to be very disappointing for the cryptocurrency users.

For publicity purposes... such news can be good. But for the ordinary user, it is of hardly any use. The vast majority of the cryptocurrency users move less than $100 worth of coins at a time. For them, this feature will not be useful. What the average user wants is a stable low fees, compared to the highly volatile system we have right now. And this is applicable to all the cryptocurrencies.

I would say that it is 50/50. At least half of the blame should be directed at you. Very few users who had enabled all the security features such as 2FA and phone authentication had their wallets hacked. Most of the time, these incidents involved those users who were either careless or too lazy to enable these basic security measures. And in case your funds are stolen from the exchanges, then 100% of the blame is on you. Exchanges are not meant for storing cryptocurrencies. They are only for trading.

It is not just the Korean exchanges. Those based in East Asia (including Japan, China and Hong Kong) seems to be very vulnerable to hacking. The recent hacks involved exchanges from this region, including Bitrue (Singapore), Binance (China), Bithumb (South Korea), Coinmama and Bithumb. There are rumors that hackers employed by the North Korean regime are involved... but there is no concrete proof for this.

Thanks for defining it clearly. But still it is surprising to see the prices going down so steeply, with the next block reward halving only a few months away. The user base is increasing at a good pace, and with inflation at such low levels, ideally we should be witnessing a sharp jump in the exchange rates. But quite the opposite is happening right now.

Well.. I would agree.. but the situation in India is much more difficult when compared to the other countries. Although Bitcoin is not explicitly banned here, there are a lot of difficulties in trading and owning Bitcoins. Bank accounts are not permitted to be used for Bitcoin-related activities and all the local exchanges were forced to close down their operations.

It will be wrong to label an entire demographic group like this. Although I would agree with some parts of your post, I have to say that many of the millennials are even more skillful than the older age groups. I am working in the IT industry and many of the millennials who have recently joined my company are very knowledgeable in coding and programming.

Are you really surprised by this? The death bell for cricket was rung when the big three countries (led by N Srinivasan, Giles Clarke and Wally Edwards) came up with the new financial model. The richer nations got even richer and the poor boards lost a large part of their revenue. As a result, talented players from the smaller boards such as South Africa, West Indies, Ireland and Pakistan started dumping their own associations to play for the big three teams (+ New Zealand). And a decade later, we are left with three major cricketing nations and 9 test playing minnows.