The biggest comedy is that now all those coins are lost forever. His partners are claiming that the password was known only to him, and he refused to reveal it even after many days of torture. I am not sure about it, but in case what they are saying is true, then there is no way to recover those coins. That is unless he had kept the backup in some bank locker or safe deposit box.

The most possible scenario is that Craig Wright would file an appeal against this decision in the higher courts. He can also argue that the American courts don't have jurisdiction over this. A third option is to declare bankruptcy. 

But I don't think that he'll ever give up claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Because it gives him a claim on BTC980,000. At current rates, they are worth more than $10 billion. And god knows how much they'll be worth in the future.

This incident happened in my country (India). This guy apparently cheated more than 50,000 individuals with his Bitcoin ponzi scheme. Not satisfied with the profits, he then tried to con his associates as well and this proved to be his undoing. Now the entire team have their lives ruined. The leader is dead, and the others will spend at least a few decades in the overcrowded and disease-infected prisons of India.

This was expected right? Exchanges such as Binance charge huge amounts as listing fee, and therefore only serious projects with good teams get listed there. And if you check Binance, only one or two IEOs would be listed at a time. But in the smaller exchanges, the listing fee is low and scammers are abundant. In many of the exchanges, as many as two dozen projects are listed at the same time.

Now the prices have fallen much further, despite the prevalence of the IEOs. Even the support level of 0.018 was breached quite easily. And it didn't took much time to reach the current level of 0.0169. Outlook is tragic for Ethereum holders. I would expect the majority of the holders to convert most of their tokens to either BTC or Tether.

When I created this thread, the dominance was hovering around 60%. In two months, it has increased to 70%. And check the latest exchange rates of the established alts. They are bleeding like anything:

Ethereum: BTC0.016933
Ripple: 2,467 Satoshis
Litecoin: BTC0.006476
Monero: BTC0.007
Stellar: 593 Satoshis
Cardano: 425 Satoshis
Tron: 151 Satoshis

I can't even remember the last time when I saw prices like these...

The Americans gave first priority to the NBA and send a second string side to the world cup. And to tell the truth, NBA seems more competitive than the world cup. We don't get to see too many one sided matches in the NBA. But then, the purpose of the world cup is different. The aim is to globalize the game and highlight its diversity.

It is not very ethical for the gambling sites to charge BTC0.001 as withdrawal fee for a single transaction, as the current rates are 1/20th of that amount for priority transactions and 1/100th of that for normal transactions. How can they charge 100 times that of the prevailing rates? Also, most of the sites do bulk transactions, which reduce the manpower and time needed to process these withdrawals.

At least against weak sides such as West Indies, other batsmen like Ajinkya Rahane are contributing and so they are not overly dependent on Virat Kohli. But I don't know what will happen against South Africa, as they have a good pace attack. Perhaps the Indian batsmen can do better, as flat subcontinental pitches don't offer much seam movement and bounce.

New Zealand looks to be in lots of trouble now. They have lost 3 wickets and still need more than 100 runs in 14 overs. The good news for NZ is that Akila Dananjaya has only one over left (he had taken all the three wickets fallen so far). Tom Bruce and de Grandhomme are trying to build a partnership, but they need to be a bit cautious now.  

Unreal scenes from the United States vs Turkey match. No one expected it to be so close. The match went in to overtime, and somehow US won the match by a whisker. But I would say one thing after watching the match... I would no longer rate US as the favorites to win the tournament. IMO, this world cup would be won by Serbia.

ROFL...

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There is no Ben Stokes in the West Indies team, but they had players such as Russel and Pollard. But unfortunately they are more interested participating the T20 leagues around the world than representing the national side. So for now, West Indies can humbly take whatever thrashing they receive from India and use the TV revenues from this series to build grass-roots cricket.

Well... let me guess. One possible explanation here:


Another one here:


But as I can see, things didn't played out as planned. India struggling at 9/1 after 6 overs. Mayank Agarwal trapped in front of the wickets by Kemar Roach for just 4 runs. Roach, with that 5 kg gold chain around his neck is literally frying the Indian batsmen. Rahul almost dragged one back to his stumps.

Well.. rather than aiming for the 3s, my opinion is that they should try to get closer to the basket. They might have thought that they may stand a 50% chance of winning points with the farther shoots. But that just didn't happened. IMO, you need to go with an attacking mindset. Italy may be a higher ranking side, but they are not invincible. So there was no need to be overly defensive.

BTW, today also we had a bunch of one-sided matches. Lithuania won by 50+ points against Senegal, and Greece had an easy victory over Montenegro. Today's last two matches are ongoing and both France and US are comfortably ahead of their rivals. So no surprises today.

It has started now. Lockie Ferguson is not playing due to a thumb injury. I just hope that it is not serious. The match is taking place in the city of Kandy, which is a bit far away from Colombo. Nice to see provincial cities being given their due. Anyway, so far so good for Sri Lanka. Kusal Mendis and Kusal Perera have given them a slow, but solid start. There is no Boult/Ferguson, so they should be looking for a target in excess of 180.

There is another possibility that could have happened during the CYBR IEO, which many users would have overlooked. Shawn Key himself admits that there was a bulk order on the first day, which took the proportion of sold tokens from less than 1% to over 50%. There is a real chance that this was done by an individual user, and he might have withdrawn his investment just before the closure of the IEO, as none of the other whales were investing in the listing.

If this was the case, then we can't really blame Coineal.

Could you please tell me why do you think that the Bitcoin block reward halving in 2020 would boost the exchange rate of altcoins, including Ethereum? After next year's block reward halving,I am expecting a major upswing in the exchange rates of Bitcoin. But I can't understand how altcoins such as Ethereum will use this opportunity to push upward.

This claim was made more than one and half months back, and during this duration the exchange rate of Ethereum went down from 0.025 BTC per coin to 0.0178 BTC per coin. The writing in the wall is clear. In order to survive as a major cryptocurrency, Ethereum needs a major boost. Unfortunately for that coin, this boost from the IEOs is not quite enough.

The bull run which you are talking about is true with regards to Bitcoin only. The other coins are not in good condition right now. Their exchange rates (against both Bitcoin and the USD) continues to drop with every passing week. I would say that for the altcoins, the bear phase is not yet over. And I am unsure whether they will ever be able to climb back to their previous ATH levels.

I don't understand how this fixed reward system is going to work. In case you are taking part in the signature bounty then in the stake method, the shares are calculated according to your forum rank and number of posts per week. Now if you replace this system with fixed payments, then everyone will be getting equal payments regardless of their forum rank and contribution, which is not fair.