I think Rajasthan Royals have more chances to win. Which team do you think will win?

I found this tweet going viral on social media. What do you guys think? What she is saying is a dark reality when I look into the current squad.

Now I did something beautiful. I took out a loan and bought a little over 1 BTC in Jan of last year. Its value went from 20L to 70L. Given the Bitcoin cycle trend. We're gonna go up this year and next, touching somewhere around $150,000. Then we'd crash in 2026. And then go up from 2027-2030. In the second cycle I predict we'd touch $300,000.

Then I took out another 1L loan at the start of last month and allocated it to a Copy Trader on Binance who only trades BTC (alpha currency) and makes ~3% every week. (He uses leverage and it's a pretty decent and conservative number). So at that rate in the next 4 years (which is how long I have left to pay off the loan). He'd make ~$300,000.

So in 2028: BTC will be worth ~$150,000 (assuming the average price on the BTC Power Law Calculator). And my Copy Trading balance would be ~$300,000 (this is also an average, as he makes anywhere between 3-5% every week).

This would bring my total to $450,000. Assuming the rupee keeps depreciating, this would be 4.5 Crores. Just 50L short of what I'd make if I had worked till 60.

Why wasn't Rituraj Gaikwad not considered in place of Yashasvi Jaiswal? I was going through the stats of both batters in IPL 2024 and found out both played same number of innings, which is 9. Rituraj got 447 runs and Jaiswal got 249 runs, out of 249 runs he has only 1 century where as Gaikwad missed by 2 runs. For me Rohit Sharma was the reason why Jaiswal got a position in the squad.

I was browsing through some recent posts on Reddit and I learned that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has given all respective boards until the 25th of this month to make any further changes to their respective squads. Is this true? If so, we may see some exclusions and a few new inclusions in the current squad. However, I still don't believe that Gaikwad will make it onto the team. If he does, he will be a lucky player. I still think that Rinku Singh should be included and Shivam Dubey should be part of the team. The BCCI should exclude a few bowlers such as Arshdeep Singh to include Rinku as he as a bowler and Aversh Khan are the worst that the team needs.

I am surprised to see that there is suddenly a lot of comparison going on between Gaikwad and Jaiswal. In my opinion, Jaiswal is far superior to Gaikwad because he has proven himself to be a dominant player in all three formats of cricket. On the other hand, Gaikwad has only made a surprise comeback in the IPL. It is important to note that performing well in the IPL doesn't necessarily guarantee success in an ICC event.

I doubt Kohli will leave his position where he has batted so well. I think Jaiswal and Rohit will be the opening pair, but I am still skeptical about Rohit's performance after the defeat in the ODI World Cup. This will be his last World Cup as captain, and I feel he will somehow make a comeback. If not, it will go against him.

All known names are in the squad for the upcoming World Cup. KL Rahul and Rinku Singh not getting a spot is a surprise. Already the team has two wicketkeepers therefore KL Rahul was removed but Rinku could play a significant role down the order. Most of the top tier players except Virat Kohli are out of form. I hope they regain their form before the big event starts in June.

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I don't find any difference between stock trading and crypto trading. So when we are allowed to continue stock trading using savings bank account, the same should apply for crypto trading as well. I don't see any issues in that.

But the entire crypto scenario is very confusing in India. So I won't be surprised if the bank deactivates anyone's account for cryptocurrency trading. But ideally they should not do that.

^^ When the likes of Rohi, Kohli and Jadeja are in the lineup then you can't fit fresh faces in the squad.

Squad looks spin heavy and i am thinking about what would be playing XI. Jadeja and Axar won't play together, similarly, Chahal and Kuldeep won't feature together as well.

I think this depends on your country policy, if your country doesn't permit such, your account will be freeze.

In Indian crypto trading is not considered as a business. Nor, stock trading is considered as a business unless you are a broker.

I do not think there should be any issues related to saving bank account being used as a way to credit your profit through crypto trading. I think this guy might have been spooked due to largely bank accounts still getting frozen after P2P amount gets credited. He is trying to relate that issue with saving account being used for trading purposes. Which I don't think is relatable as P2P bank account freeze is a completely different issue.

I don't think crypto trading or making P2P transactions using savings account can be considered as a business.
In this case, banks cannot reserve the right to freeze our bank accounts. The only reason banks can freeze our account is when we are doing illicit activities using our bank account.
Money laundering, credit card fraud, scamming others etc... are some reasons why banks freeze our savings account and not merely for crypto trading.

Miner's rewards getting dropped will affect them for the next 4 years but if again the network is spammed by those shit coins then they will be making a good profit. That is the right strategy buy low & sell high to maximize the profit. The point is that we will see the next bull run is unpredictable everyone was expecting a bull run after ETF approval but, no one was expecting Bitcoin to create a new ATH. Accumulation is always a good strategy to generate good returns when the time is right to sell.

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Which other teams do you think will be able to qualify for the play offs. I feel KKR has a good chance to qualify with thier top order batters playing very good as of now. The bowling and fielding is a concern but they can work with that to improve it.

There are too many runs that are being scored in this year of IPL. It now looks like any team can easily get to 250 or more runs, looks like the pitches are being created to help the batters. There should be some healthy competition between the batters and the bowlers. I liked the match between RR and LSG more than the first one as the bowlers were getting help in the second game from the pitch. It was the batters who had to play sensibly in that match to get those runs on the scoreboard. Sanju Samson has been in good form it seems as he has been batting well this year and is no longer afraid to play the risky shots. His team is at the top of the point table and they have lost only 1 match till now, they will surely make it to the playoffs.

I do try to give back what merits I earn to this section of the forum. However getting merits in from the global sections everyday is tough and not having a merit source dedicated to the section sucks even hard.

What I think does not matter as BCCI will make its selection based on the way players perform this season of IPL. The biggest blunder the chief selector made was declaring Rohit as the captain before the IPL. As of now, he is not in the right state of mind to bat as he lost his MI captaincy to a shit player. He has clearly said in public that the T20WC squad will need Kohli. Two players who are not doing good are already reserved and they will play every game.