As a Bitcoin user with more than two years experience, I don't think that this is an issue which we can ignore. As the mining difficulty increases, it is going to take more and more power. Either we should reduce the electricity requirement for mining, or we should move to a different mining algorithm. This may sound ridiculous, but PoS algorithm suits Bitcoin much more than PoW. 

The problem is that users get greedy when a bull run occurs. They will wait for more and more gains and when the dump occurs they will be reluctant to sell those coins at lower levels. But what happens is that once the bull run is over, the bearish phase will become more pronounced during the next few months. Most of the users will be forced to sell, once this phase is set in.

KYC is not mandatory in all the countries, and gambling sites have taken advantage of this and set up websites in jurisdictions where the regulations are more relaxed. And regarding the initial deposit bonus, many of the sites have such promotional offers. But there are riders attached with this, such as a requirement to gamble at least 10x of the deposit amount.

Jasprit Bumrah may get a ban after posting a controversial pic using his Twitter account. Some of the users have commented that it was "indecent". The BCCI may take up this matter.

BTW, I was surprised with the Australian fightback today. Right now, they are cruising along pretty well, on 136/3. I expected them to go down meekly, in the absence of Steve Smith. However, Warner regained his form unexpectedly and scored a half-century. Marnus Labuschagne gave him good support and as of now he is just 2 runs away from a fifty.

20 million looks minuscule when compared to 1,350 million for India, 200 million for Pakistan and 165 million for Bangladesh. Their population is even lower than that of Afghanistan and Nepal. Also, domestic cricket is concentrated in and around Colombo, where the population is only a few millions. And if you remember, they tried the SLPL a few years ago. It flopped and was never tried again. 

Ray Youssef don't have the authority to make that decision and he should STFU. Even Satoshi can't make that decision, since Bitcoin is a decentralized currency. At the most, he can appeal to the mining pools, to reverse the transactions through a 51% attack. But I don't think that the mining pools will approve such a request. Even if they approve it, I don't think that it can be implemented.

Does it really surprise anyone? Before the ICO bull run started, the Bitcoin dominance was above 80%. The ICOs and the emergence of new coins took the dominance below the 40% level. Now since most of the ICOs turned out to be scams, the dominance is going back to the previous levels (i.e 80%). Right now we are at 69%, but I think 80% will be attained by the end of this year.

Everyday new coins are being listed, and despite that the Bitcoin dominance is rising continuously. UNUS SED LEO was listed just a few months back and now it is the 12th largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap. Competitors may come and go, but Bitcoin stays there forever. Those who had put their faith in Bitcoin are now smiling, and those greedy users who wanted 1,000x returns in two months are crying. 

If you think too much about the past, then you will never taste success in the future. I have seen a lot of people regretting their decision to sell their coins (including myself  ). So whatever losses you have incurred, just forget about them and move on. I am 100% sure that you will not only be able to recover them, but to profit from the future trades handsomely.

I have been saying this for quite sometime now. Emerging crypto ventures should concentrate on their main expertise for at least 2-3 years before trying to diversify. Exchanges should concentrate on their platform and make it more secure, before they jump in to gambling. A lot many of the users are afraid to use the exchanges now, as every now and then the news comes out of some exchange getting hacked. We have gambling sites that accept deposits in cryptocurrency if we want to gamble. We don't need the exchanges for that.

Jack of all trades, master of none (credits to Robert Greene).

When I got my first BTC from Localbitcoins in January 2017, the exchange rates were still below $1,000 per coin. I don't remember the exact price, but I guess it was somewhere around $900. I paid a premium of 5%, so the end price was $950. I still remember the nervousness I felt while making the investment, but now I feel that I should have purchased more coins back then.

It is difficult to predict. Bitcoin was not in existence when the last time we had a crash in the stock market (2008-09). But there were similar incidents in the past, such as the Cyprus financial crisis and the savings bank haircut. A lot of people had predicted that the Bitcoin prices would rise following the Cyprus crisis, but nothing happened back then.

I am more worried about the cryptocurrency users from mainland China, who had registered to the exchanges in Hong Kong. After China outlawed the crypto-to-fiat trade in 2017, many of the users from mainland China had registered to various exchanges in South Korea and Hong Kong. With the relations between China and Hing Kong getting tense, these users may be left between the devil and the deep blue sea.

You can't really say that IEOs are safer than the ICOs. The current situation of the IEOs remind me of the situation of ICOs during mid 2017. IEO is still a relatively new concept and there is a false sense of security among many of the cryptocurrency users regarding it. But looking at the overall structure, I can foresee serious issues with IEOs in the near future. I have seen little known exchanges listing 25 IEOs at the same time. When you have that many, the quality will obviously go down.

This is in line with this news:

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/07/cryptocurrency-exchange-coinbase-hits-30-million-user-mark/

They haven't given a country-wise distribution for the users, but I guess anywhere from one-third to half of all the users may be residents of the United States. So the figure of 25 million given by OP looks quite possible. That would mean that around 8% of the US population are either crypto users, or are planning to use crypto in the future.

If you remember what happened in 2017, you will get answers to your question. BTC went up by 20x in 2017, but the hype propelled altcoins to much higher levels. Ethereum went up by 100x, and many of the lower ranked altcoins gave even more returns. Some of these alts became like inflated balloons. What happening in 2018-19 is a correction, so that these overpriced alts and tokens come back to their fair valuation.

Yes. Sri Lanka won the world cup in 1996. But their growth stagnated after that. They have a very limited player pool, as the total population is less than 20 million. On top of that, most of the domestic cricket is concentrated in Colombo. You will find very few domestic players from the Northern province or the Eastern province. SLC is projected to receive $115 million just from the ICC for the 2015-23 period, on top of the sponsorships and TV deals. I don't know why they are using this money to improve the quality of domestic cricket in the island.

I guess most of the altcoin promoters have dumped their holdings and exited the cryptocurrency market. If you check the altcoins outside the top-10 list in coinmarketcap, you can see that the development activity has almost stopped completely. These guys profited from the altcoin bull run in 2017-18, and now they have vanished with all the money they could accumulate by selling their shitcoins.

I am still holding my tokens and altcoins in MEW and exchange wallets. The multi-asset open source wallets doesn't look secure enough for me. And after the recent price crash, the net worth of my alts have gone below $500 (from $3,000 a few months earlier). Now there is no point in purchasing a hardware wallet to store these assets.

The advantage with Bitcoin is that there is no mandatory requirement that you should invest it somewhere. On the other hand, you need to invest your fiat savings, because they are vulnerable to inflation and the purchasing power will go down if you just hold fiat in your savings bank account. Bitcoin is not affected by inflation, and therefore you can just hold the coins in your wallet for long term without bothering about a decline in the purchasing power.