The match was essentially lost during the first 3-4 overs, when the Deccan Gladiators run rate dipped to unsustainable levels. After 4 overs, the DG total was 27/3 and by then their three most important batsmen were back in pavilion (Pollard, Shahzad and Watson). Bhanuka Rajapaksa hit a few big boundaries.. but he didn't got as much strike as he wanted.

Even in the developed nations, stores that accept Bitcoin are few and far between. And unfortunately, there have been hardly any growth during the last two years. Some of the stores and merchants that used to accept Bitcoin have removed the option recently (examples are Stripe and Steem). And in the developed world, in many of the countries making payments with BTC is not even legal.

Talking about gender, race, religion.etc is illogical while dealing with a decentralized asset such as Bitcoin. With BTC, you are on your own and no one can make things easier or difficult for you. So discrimination or bias does not comes in to picture. Women face no additional barrier in being cryptocurrency traders and therefore I don't think that threads such as this one makes sense.

Look at the victory margin. If this match can't be considered as a white-wash, then we need to find a new definition for that term. IMO, there was no positive points for Pakistan from the match. All of their players failed miserably and none could score runs against the main bowlers. Only when Marnus Labuschagne was bowling, some of the Pak batsmen looked comfortable with batting.

Well... it is up to the individual to decide whether they want to sell their altcoins, or hold on to them. In my case, I had sold most of my alts in 2018. Back then, I was a bit reluctant as the prices were really low. However the decision to sell the coins was the right one, as their prices went down even further during 2018-19. But this is my experience and the outcome may be different for others.

It was possible earlier. I can give you the example of Ethereum. It's ICO price was $0.31 per coin and now it is trading at $147 per coin (the ATH was $1,400 which was reached almost two years ago). However, if you ask me whether such ICOs are possible now, then my reply will be a big NO. Because most of the ICOs are overpriced nowadays and they go for listing before the final product is ready.

In this case, this is entirely your fault and you can't really blame the shitcoins. The "Contract" hash will be unique for each of the tokens, even if the names are similar. In your case, you sent the tokens using the wrong contract code and that's why you lost them. How you are going to blame the project for that? Anyway, I hope you learnt your lesson. Please be careful in the future.

The problem is that most of the projects that go for ICO now are copycats. Most of the good ideas already have several existing projects, although many of them are either dormant or dead. We had somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 different ICOs during 2017-19 period and for the same idea there may be dozens of existing projects. And this is also one of the reason why the user interest for ICOs is at all time low.

Here is my response to your advice:

Don’t pay taxes: Not practical. If we don't pay the taxes, then we'll get jailed. So I would rather use loopholes to reduce my tax bill, but would pay them on time.

Don’t get married: Here in India, unmarried couples are frowned upon. So I didn't had any other choice. However, for now I am facing no issues in my family life.

Don’t use bank: Well... I don't use banks to store my wealth. I receive my salary in my bank account and I use that money to invest elsewhere. I never keep large amounts in banks.

Don’t invest: Right now, most of my portfolio is composed of Bitcoin. So I guess it is OK.

Even if they accept Libra, they will be accepting the other payment modes as well (such as PayPal, Visa, Master.etc). So my question is how they will make the users prefer Libra over the other options? Libra is a new payment method and at least initially the vast majority of the users may not be comfortable in using it. So unless they give some good promotional offers, no one is going to use Libra.

Putin's wealth is grossly inflated and his real wealth is rumored to be a few million USD. However, the Saudi Royal Family effectively controls 90% of the wealth in that country, and that amounts to at least $2 trillion. I am not sure about Rothschild, but he controls a large number of banks with hidden wealth and he may be even richer than the Saudis.

Pathetic batting display by the Deccan Gladiators. I expected a lot from them, given the recent form of Mohammad Shahzad, Shane Watson and Kieron Pollard. But McClenaghan and Malinga put them in pressure from the start. They could manage only 87 runs and it is never going to be enough in T10 format. In the end, the final turned out to be very lop-sided. 

It will be very risky to bet for England, given the thrashing they received during the first test match. New Zealand has traditionally performed better than expected at home, even against top teams such as India and Australia. One thing that could go against them is the injury to Trent Boult. But in case Lockie Ferguson comes in for Boult, then it is going to be really tough for England.

You can expect the investors to be more careful and to take additional security steps to protect themselves from the scams. In many cases, the ICOs that go for listing don't have anything concrete to show to the potential investors. All they have is an idea and in many cases not even the preliminary phase of investment is complete. And in such cases the investors will be reluctant to pour their hard earned money in to them.

If a particular altcoin is not good enough, then in due course of time it will be having declining trade volumes and in the end it will get delisted from most of the exchanges. That is the natural course. On the other hand, if we ask the exchanges to delist such coins, then it will go against the decentralized nature of the cryptocurrency market. Let the market decide the future of such tokens/coins.   

With bots controlling many of the smaller exchanges (and the DEX sites), nowadays it is not that hard to inflate the trade volumes. And on top of that, a higher volume can also mean that the promoters are dumping their tokens (especially if the exchange rate is lower than the listing price). Trade volume can be used as one of the parameters in deciding whether a token is good for investment or not. But it can't be the sole consideration.

Well.. bounty rewards have fallen to all time lows and there is no logic in participating them anymore. I am someone who used to participate in a large number of bounties, right from 2017. Back then, the rewards were really good and on average it ranged from $100 to $1,000 for a signature campaign and $10 to $100 for social media campaigns. The current rates are less than 1/10th of this amount, and many of the bounty hunters consider themselves lucky if they get paid at all.

I can understand the nostalgia surrounding ADA. Back in 2017, it gave some of the best returns in the history for any cryptocurrency, when it went up by more than 100x. Technologically, it was regarded as one of the strongest cryptocurrencies currently available. But in the end a number of factors pulled it down, and what hurt the coin the most was the slow pace of development. The lack of availability of an online or lite wallet hurt the adoption a lot during the initial years. And the userbase had vanished by the time they came up with such wallets.

The hype surrounding the IEOs have vanished. The recent IEOs that got listed in exchanges such as Binance and Huobi gave mixed results for the users. The conclusion is that you can no longer blindly invest in any of these projects. There are still a number of good IEOs getting listed, but the guarantee is not there. You need to study the projects carefully before investing in them.

Bitcoin is a decentralized asset and as such it is not too dependent on any single market. But the political developments in major markets such as China, United States, Japan.etc can have a large impact on the exchange rates. Also, there is another factor that chips in. The other markets may be having more long-term holders, but a large part of the day traders come from China.