I have never tried bisq, but one of my friends told me that it is not that hard to use. I expect the government policy towards the cryptocurrencies to become more hostile as time progresses. So we need to get used to these exchanges based on TOR, if we plan to use crypto in the future. Let's prove that we're one step ahead of the authorities. 

Bitcoin is being demonized as a weapon of criminals and mafias by the mainstream media, despite the fact that less than 2% of the transactions are illegitimate (as per studies done by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). With Bitcoin mixers, this proportion will be much higher. So we can expect an even more hostile reaction.

Here in India, two months back there were a lot of FUD about the authorities introducing a law, which makes possession or mining of cryptocurrency a criminal offense (punishable by 10 years in prison). But this so called "draft law" was never brought before the parliament and the individual who drafted this bill (Subhash Chandra Garg) was fired recently for incompetence.

I don't understand the logic in claiming that gold is a stable asset. Check the historical gold prices. They have been anything but stable and for me gold is as volatile as any other asset. Gold price was $36 per oz in 1970 and by 1980 it had increased to $615 per oz. The again it went up from $270 in 2001 to $1,800 in 2012. Then a dip took the prices from $1,800 to $1,200. Can you call such an asset as stable?

Future outlook is quite bleak for Chipmixer. Even if they co-operate with the authorities, the chances are that they will be forced to close down. In fact it surprises me that the authorities allowed them to operate until now. If I am not wrong, they have been operating for more than two years and that makes them the oldest Bitcoin mixer that is currently active.

If I am not wrong, cricket became the no.1 sport in Afghanistan just 10 years ago. It is really surprising, because the Afghanistan national cricket team was formed only in 1995. Until the 1980s, cricket was virtually unknown there and football was the most popular sport. It gained popularity during the 90s and the first decade of 21st century. Also, earlier cricket was confined only to the Pashtun ethnic group (40% of the population). But now every group is playing it, including Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks and Aimaks.

Regulation is good as long as the cryptocurrency users are not needlessly harassed. There are some countries which want the cryptocurrency users to give details of all the transactions they made in the tax returns. Can you imagine how much paper work and effort will be needed for that, if some cryptocurrency trader files his tax return?

The authorities should treat crypto just like any other asset. They should not demonize it. 

Hardly anyone is mining altcoins now, as their value have crashed by as much as 50% during the past two months. Most of the altcoin miners have shifted to coins such as Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. If you check the mining difficulty and hash rates for the established altcoins (such as ETH, ADA and LTC), many of them are showing sharp declines.

The last time I checked, this forum had more than 2.64 million users and the number of available slots in all the active signature campaigns was in three digits. So that means that you need to be an exceptionally good poster, if you want to qualify for signature campaigns. You need to improve on your language and knowledge about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. If that doesn't help, try other methods, such as freelancing and trading. 

I never understood the politics behind team selection in West Indies. They have filled one of the bowling slots with a part time bowler. His selection is even more surprising because he performed poorly during the recently concluded series against India A. He picked up just 4 wickets in two first-class matches and scored 123 runs in four innings.

I would be more careful with BNB now. Binance is not doing that good recently. First, they were hacked and thousands of BTC were stolen. Then they had to deal with some guy who had access to KYC data of more than 60,000 Binance users (and this hasn't been sorted out till now). I have no complaints about the development. But they need to focus on security.

Do you know why none of these altcoins will ever be able to topple Bitcoin from the top?

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, who was an ideologically driven individual. He never cared about his own personal benefit. If he had such thoughts, then he could have sold his Bitcoin stash (BTC980,000) long ago.

Altcoins are being created by money-minded individuals, whose only aim is to make money for themselves after exploiting the hype created by Bitcoin. Cardano is no different from this.

Seriously? There are many better and less tedious ways to remove the double entries. But none of the bounty managers seems to be interested. Do you think that the only way to remove multiple application is by KYC verification? So are you willing to send the scanned copy of your passport to some unknown bounty manager?

Well... you have a point there. The dominance dropped due to the ICO boom in 2017. There was a sudden decline from 85.1% in January 2017, to 33.4% by January 2018. That means that in just one year, the altcoin share increased from less than 15% to 67%. Most of this increase can be explained by the ICO boom, but there were a few other reasons as well, such as the forking of BCH and BTG.

The first part of your statement is wrong. You can check the posts that Satoshi made in this forum during 2010 and it is clear that he wanted BTC to grow as a trans-national currency. That said, it is true that he didn't mentioned anything about the taxation, either in the forum posts or in the original Bitcoin white paper (which was published in 2008).

The gold prices are up by 20% during the last three months, and that is bad news for the fiat currencies around the world. There are confirmed reports that countries such as Russia and China are dumping their US treasury bonds in favor of gold. If Russia and China are doing this now, there is no guarantee that the other countries will not follow suit in the future.

I don't know whether they'll get any television viewership in Zimbabwe. But Bangladesh and Afghanistan are cricket crazy nations, and most of the people there will be glued to the TV set whenever their national teams play. IMO, they should replace Zimbabwe with Nepal for the tri-series. Nepal is another cricket crazy nation in South Asia.

Well... India is a country with thousands of different ethnic groups and hundreds of languages. And cricket is the no.1 sport in India. Whenever someone from a particular state represents India, the residents of that state feel quite proud. And it is quite rare for anyone to represent the Indian team from the smaller states. I am originally from Mizoram (currently residing in Tripura and married to a girl from South India). No one has ever represented India from these two states (ever since India became independent in 1947).

Only group of people who can survive solely from gambling are those who own gambling sites. Since gambling results are dependent purely on luck, you can't really make it a profession. And I don't think that there is any gambling site out there, which offers zero house advantage. So no matter how skilled you are, in the long term you are expected to lose money.

Let's not badmouth Mayweather. Pacquiao challenged him once, and Floyd accepted the challenge. He won the fight against Manny in a very decisive way. Now you can't say that Manny lost the first fight and therefore he deserves another chance. Floyd has retired from boxing for all practical purposes and let's respect his decision. And his zero loss record is something that he should be proud of. He was never afraid to take on the best boxers, and still he finished undefeated.