I checked a few news sites and blogs that deal with cryptocurrency, and some are suggesting that he has faked his death and vanished with all the coins. Now this is the second such incident, after the infamous QuadrigaCX scandal. Back then, the CEO (Gerald Cotten) died mysteriously and he was supposedly the only one in possession of the private keys for accessing $160 million worth of cryptocurrency.

During the past few weeks, I have browsed through hundreds of ANN threads. I found a few promising projects, but most of them were either copycats or outright scams. But the main problem is that even the promising ones were over-priced. The softcap and hardcap targets were too high, for them to be viable. There is no point in investing in such projects.

HODL simply doesn't work with many of the new projects. By the time we are certain that they are becoming obsolete, it will be too late to sell the tokens and coins. So I would suggest a waiting period of 3 months after the listing. In case the prices have gone down by more than 50% during this period, then it will be better to book the losses and exit.

I still don't know how 1% or 2% of the total tokens in circulation can have a big influence on the prices. The bounty hunters wait patiently for many weeks to receive their tokens. And if they can't sell their tokens even after waiting this much, then it is going to be very unfair. Fortunately I haven't participated in any bounty campaign for more than a year now. And I am glad about that. Nowadays bounty campaigns have become more and more exploitative.

After witnessing the crazy bull run of 2017, the laggardness of the altcoins doesn't surprise me now. Most of the crypto-users have realized that the vast majority of the altcoins are good for nothing. In the near future, the Bitcoin dominance (which currently stands at 57.2%) will continue to increase and apart from a few good altcoins such as ETH and XLM, most of the others will become obsolete.

I am a big fan of the Gypsy King, but I didn't really enjoyed this particular fight. It was too much one-sided and as predicted, ended too quickly. Fury deserved a better opponent. Before the fight I had high hopes for Tom Schwarz, and read a lot of articles about him. But inside the ring, he looked quite amateurish. BTW, anyone know who is Fury's next opponent?

Last week, one of my favorite boxers, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin warned Pacquiao against Thurman. Golovkin was hinting at the recent upset by Andy Ruiz Jr. (who KOed Anthony Joshua), and warns Manny not to take Thurman lightly. Apart from GGG, a number of boxers and sports analysts have linked the Ruiz vs Joshua fight with Pacquiao vs Thurman. According to them, there are a lot of similarities.

BTW... anyone interested in a GGG vs Pacquiao fight? Well... it may never happen... just a daydream....

It was a good performance by Bangladesh, but you need to be consistent in case you want to get yourself listed among teams such as Australia and India. And right now the top four teams are Australia, India, England and New Zealand. The other teams are far behind these 4, and the gap between them seems to be increasing, especially with the poor form shown by South Africa and Pakistan.

More than the win by Bangladesh, it is the extreme inconsistency shown by the West Indies that surprised me. They put up a world class performance in one match and two days later, they suffer a thrashing defeat. And for Bangladesh, their remaining matches are against strong sides such as Australia and India. Even the match against Afghanistan is going to be a tough one.

Rohit Sharma is on fire. The run-rate has climbed to 6.58 runs per over and Virat Kohli hasn't come to bat yet.  

If things go according to the plan, then we are looking at a score of 350+ for India. The Pakistani spinners are not as good as their pace bowlers and if they don't manage to take a wicket now things can quickly slip out of their hands. My opinion is to give their best bowler (Mohammed Amir) a couple of overs more, to see whether he can get either of the openers out.

Most of his posts are in Hindi, and so it is possible that he is a follower/fan of cricket. May be sending him a PM will confirm whether the account was created by him or not.

Now coming back to the match, India has started quite well. After two overs, they are 9/0, with the openers being cautious against Mohammed Amir and Hassan Ali. Rohit showing a lot of confidence.

One thing that I have learned from all my time here is that holding the little known alts is not worth the effort. First of all, there is a great chance that these coins will become dormant in a matter of few months. And secondly, you need to store them in the exchange wallets, as installing the desktop wallet for each of them is not a good idea.

Just ignore these antics. The trash-talk is all stage-managed to get more attention from the media and the fans. Keith Thurman is someone who is respectful to his opponents. And I don't think that he really disrespects a legend like Manny Pacquiao, especially at this stage. Hopefully it can get them to the target of 1 million PPV views in the United States market.

Only the smaller players are going to get affected. The bigger ones usually hire someone to do the KYC for them (obviously using the stolen documents which are available in the dark markets). And expect these guys to get more active, as there has been a big spike in the exchange rates for all the cryptocurrencies, during the past 2-3 months.

Since rain interruption is expected at some point in this match, it will be a good idea for India to preserve their wickets rather than trying to score 400 in 50 overs. I would like them to start cautiously, with acceleration being done in the last 10-15 overs. Also, the initial overs will be bowled by Mohammed Aamir and Wahab Riaz, two of the best Pakistani bowlers.

Libra Coin (the cryptocurrency from Facebook) may be launched sometime in 2020, and there is a good chance that its launch might be delayed. Till now, JPM has not given any fixed date for the launch of its coin. So we still have approximately one year left (or maybe more). And by that time Bitcoin may climb to a new ATH and these coins may lag far behind.

An approval from the supreme court is not needed.

Once the draft legislation is finalized, it will be send to the lower house of the parliament (Lok Sabha). None of the major parties have opposed this bill and therefore we can assume that it will get passed with a simple majority. The next step is to get it passed by the upper house (Rajya Sabha). Once that step is cleared, the bill will be sent to the president and he needs to put his sign.

After these steps, the legislation can be challenged in the courts.

Read the article in full and you will get a better idea about it. These guys were blackmailing American citizens after pretending themselves to be from the IRS. They were arrested for that and not for using  Bitcoin. They extorted money out of American nationals and converted the money in to BTC for the ease of transferring to the Indian accounts.

Storage is a big issue with bullion. You can either store them at home, or using bank lockers. Both have their own demerits. Where I am living, robbery of gold is very common and therefore people tend to store their gold ornaments and coins in bank lockers. And here is the issue. Bank lockers are not 100% safe, and on top of that they are vulnerable to confiscation from the authorities.

How much legally binding is this order? As far as I know, Craig S Wright is an Australian citizen and he don't need to worry about the court proceedings in the United States. But if the federal judge forces him to appear before him in person and manages to prove that he was lying all along, then the judge will have a lot of respect from my side.