This is one of the reasons why I am against the mandatory KYC verification. Now only god knows what these hackers are going to do with all those ID cards. BTW, there is something seriously wrong with Binance. This latest incident comes just a few months after some hacker stole BTC7,000 from their hot wallets. If I was a Binance user, then I would not keep any of my coins there.

Of late, Steyn had a stormy relationship with the South African cricket board (CSA) and was unlucky to miss so many matches due to injury, especially during 2015-18. He had close to 400 test wickets by 2014 and during the next 5 years (2015-19) he played less than 10 matches and took somewhere around 40 wickets.

I still regard him as the greatest fast bowler past the WW2 (Glenn Mitchell was the first one who claimed that). Had he played enough matches during the past 5 years, then he could have easily become the all time highest wicket taker in the history of test cricket.

Players will continue to retire from tests, to concentrate more on the T20 leagues. Nowadays new T20 leagues are emerging in every nook and corner of the world, and the players are being paid handsomely for relatively short stints. After all, playing cricket is just like any other profession and the players need to earn as much as they can, when they are on top form.

Nathan Lyon bowled beautifully today, after his pathetic performance during the first innings. More than a victory for Australia, I was baying for an English defeat. What happened during the world cup finals left a bitter aftertaste and now I am happy after watching England losing by such a large margin.

The next test is scheduled at Lord's. That pitch may offer more support for the fast bowlers and I hope the Australians will include Mitchell Starc in the place of either Peter Siddle or James Pattinson.

How they are planning to attract new audience, when the tickets were priced so high? The only aim was to make as much money as possible, by robbing the Indian and West Indian expats. The only locals among the audience were a few cheer girls. The ICC need to stop using the rich American expats as money making machines. Give them some respect.

As we all know, the exchange rate of Ethereum has fallen during the past few months (vs BTC). From around 0.035 BTC per coin six months back, the prices have fallen to 0.0205 BTC as of now. The market share of Ethereum in the cryptocurrency market has fallen from 11.5% to 8.3% during the same period. Other alts have also fallen, but not by this much.

And this has happened despite the boost it received from the IEOs. Can ETH manage a comeback anytime soon? Will the investors stop selling their ETH holdings for BTC, and hold on to the coin?

This is not the first time I am reading such articles, which promote XRP. Ripple enjoys support from a wide array of individuals and organizations (including major banks). But I have never considered it as a true cryptocurrency, due to its centralized nature. Its political muscle has enabled it to become the third largest cryptocurrency currently in circulation. But that hasn't helped its adoption and acceptability. Coins such as LTC and BCH remains more popular than XRP, despite having a smaller market capitalization.

How practical is this? I have created multiple Blockchain.com wallets and most of my coins are stored in these wallets. I have also exported the private keys from these wallets in the text format. If Blockchain.com freezes my wallet, I can just go to some other platform and then import the private keys to get access to my wallet, right? There is no requirement to use their platform.

All you need to do is to take a few basic security precautions. If 2FA is enabled and the private key is properly backed up, then the chances of your coins getting stolen or lost is close to zero. If you still want to be sure about the safety of your coins, then hardware wallets are available from $100 to $300, depending on the specifications.

Privatization is not the solution, as in India we had very bad experience with that. Here a mafia tycoon called Santiago Martin got the contract to operate state lotteries in some of the Northeastern regions and he made many billions by cheating the players. Lottery tickets were printed out above the permissible limit and a smaller share was reserved for the prize pool.

I expected this when they dropped Mitchell Starc from the bowling XI. The Australian bowling attack looked pathetic in the absence of Starc and I was surprised that England couldn't build a better total. Also, it was surprising to see Nathan Lyon bowling close to 50 overs, as he never troubled the batsmen. Right now, England has 80% chance of winning this match. If they could get Smith out early today, the match is theirs.

His career is all but finished now. He picked up a serious back injury almost two years back and has been out of action ever since. Even if he returns at some point in the future, I don't think he'll be able to bowl at the same pace. The last time I heard, he has injuries to his ankle and heel as well, in addition to his lower back injury.

I think Blockchain.com is trying to bring in more revenues. Despite being used by tens of millions of cryptocurrency users, Blockchain.com is not a profit making venture. Their wallet business doesn't bring in any revenues. So they may be trying to capitalize on the user-base to get some cash. But opening an exchange is not child's play, especially after so many exchange hacks.

Indians do have a habit of messing up with small targets. Krunal Pandya just got out. India at 88/6 and still needs another eight runs to win. When they restricted Windies to less than a hundred, I thought that they'll chase the target with 10 overs to spare. I wonder what would have happened had WI scored another 20 runs to their total.

Bad light stops play, and Australia leads by 34 runs. For the Aussies, any chance of a victory depends solely on Steven Smith. None of the other batsmen looked like they are capable of playing a match winning innings. If they could build the lead to 250 plus, then I'd say that they have a chance. Anything less than that is a cakewalk for England, given how poorly Lyon has bowled during the first innings.

Having a bad feeling after reading about all their plans..... My two cents about this is that we don't need another exchange right now. There are thousands of them out there and Blockchain.com would be better if they could just concentrate on the wallet business. I don't want the hackers to target Blockchain.com, after the disaster we had with Cryptopia.

A few months back, Charlie Lee (the inventor of Litecoin) said during an interview that every cryptocurrency user should strive to accumulate one BTC in his wallet. Despite being the inventor of an altcoin, he was saying that we should focus on alts only after accumulating 1 BTC. I agree with him. After all, Bitcoin was the first and original cryptocurrency.

I don't think so. 11K was achieved many times during the past few weeks, and the price movement showed no major resistance level or support at 11K. IMO, the next major target is going to be 20K, and we may witness this level by the end of this year. But first, Bitcoin needs to move past the current levels (9K-11K), as we are witnessing a weakening of the bull run in the market.

Can't agree anymore with you on this. Those $10 billion worth of coins are his, and he can do whatever he want with those coins. We should not complain about it too much. If not for his invention (Bitcoin), we would have never got an opportunity to earn all the wealth during the past few years. Many of the users here got rich by investing in Bitcoins and many others got considerable amount of money by participating in the bounty campaigns and airdrops. Now we can't be ungrateful to Satoshi.

The partnership between Broad and Woakes changed everything, else Australia could have restricted England to a lead of less than 50 runs. And this is where they needed Starc the most. Nathan Lyon was sending down ball after ball, and he never looked threatening, even for the tailenders. In the end he picked up 3 wickets (including that of Anderson), but he never deserved his place in the playing XI.