Despite his technological knowledge and involvement in the cryptocurrency, I don't think that Craig S Wright is the real Satoshi. Time and again, he has proven himself to be a greedy individual who doesn't care about the global adoption and acceptability of the cryptocurrency. But it is quite possible that he has something to do with the original Satoshi. There is a chance that he knows the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Well... this is a probability. A 61-year old female doesn't fit with our description of the typical Bitcoin user. And I never though about it. It looks like some of her relatives were stealing electricity for Bitcoin mining and when it was caught she came forward and admitted the crime. The charges are not going to last and most likely she will be acquitted.

With the return of Warner and Smith, Australia looks like the strongest team in the world cup. I won't be too surprised, if the final is between Australia and New Zealand (just like the case in 2015). NZ also looks to be in fine form, and they have performed well in England. Trent Boult is going to play a major role for them and the conditions suit him perfectly.

Well. Let's see. Teams from the subcontinent should have arrived in England at least two weeks prior to the tournament and played a few warm up matches during this duration. But the Indians took it very lightly. It will be difficult to adjust to the conditions, after playing in India for two months continuously for the IPL. Anyway, one more warm up match (vs Bangladesh) is remaining, and lets see how they perform.

This is really crazy. I can't believe that your salary has remained constant for 30 years. Here in India, the agricultural laborers used to get around INR 5 three decades pack as the salary. This has increased to around INR 200 as of now. Obviously the inflation has also increased during this time, but if you look at the purchasing power, it is also showing an increase.

Right now, it costs around $3 to send Bitcoins. But as the number of users increase, this can also go up. If you remember, during the peak of the bitcoin bull run in 2017, we had fee ranging from $30 to $50 for a single transaction. The mining pools were making a killing back then. But the strategy backfired, as the users shifted to ETH, LTC and BCH.

The last time they had a world cup in England was way back in 1999. And back then, a left arm pacer from New Zealand (Geoff Allott) was the top wicket taker during the tournament. And I am seeing a lot of similarities between Trent Boult and Geoff Allott. Even today, Boult got 4 wickets and his swing and seam movement destroyed the Indian innings.

I am more of a recreational gambler and most of the time, I make very small bets like BTC0.001 or BTCBTC0.002. Only rarely do I go above the BTC0.010 mark. And 2018 was a bad year for me. I lost the majority of my sports bets and 2019 was even worse. I lost quite a bit during the IPL season. In the initial phase of IPL, I lost a lot of my bets.

I have been saying this for quite sometime. Historically, the Indian batsmen have fared poorly in England. And I don't think that this time it is going to be any different. The only batsman who is not going to get affected is Virat Kohli. But as we have seen in the past, Kohli will be helpless if the other players don't offer him any support in building the innings.

Floyd is already 42 years old and at the most he has 2-3 years left. And during this time, we can expect at the most 5 fights from him. The problem is that the welterweight class is looking very thin and there are a limited number of individuals who can offer good competition to Floyd. His fight against McGregor paid him around $300 million and another 5 fights can get him well above $1 billion.

It could have been an easy victory for the Afghanistan team, but they were made to struggle by the Pakistanis. This is why I get frustrated with these lower ranked sides (Afghanistan, Ireland.etc). They show a lot of enthusiasm in the field and put in a lot of hard work. But their finishing is horrible. Ireland can be classified as the choker team, but Afghanistan would come close.

First installed a mobile wallet in 2017, when I got interested in crypto-currency for the first time. But I found using online wallets and desktop wallets easier than the mobile wallets. Because here in India there are very few shops which would accept Bitcoin payments. So there is no advantage in having a few coins in your mobile wallet.

Agreed with both the statements. Blaming the EVM without any evidence is like insulting the 900 million individuals who took part in this process. UPA had won a few state elections 3 months back. And back then, the EVMs were OK.

And the less talked about Rahul G, that better. He is beyond any hope and I seriously think that he is suffering from some sort of mental disease. He could have made NYAY or agrarian distress the main campaign issue. Instead of that 99% of the time he was barking "Chowkidar chor hai". The voters replied back that "Chowkidar chor nahin hai, tumhare baap chor hai".

Competition is good. But you need to remember that there is only a limited number of cryptocurrency users who are active right now, and therefore the total revenues that can be accumulated every year is limited. In case the number of exchanges increase beyond a certain point, then the revenues will fall to a threshold which is below the sustainable level.

The results were as expected. The exit polls were showing somewhere between 300 and 320 seats for the NDA, but the ground situation was entirely different. In rural areas, it was very hard to find a single person who would support the UPA (I am a resident of Tripura), outside their core-support groups (Muslims / Christians). Free electricity, housing and LPG made the difference for this election.


As you can see, NDA swept the entire country with the exception of three states in the south. I don't know whether the UPA can ever recover from such a heavy defeat (their PM candidate was also defeated in Amethi).

BCH is a very promising coins, but you need to remember that it was weakened a lot after BSV forked out. And today, BCH has gone down by 3% after BSV almost doubled its exchange rate. The exchange rates for BTC-BCH-BSV are showing a strong correlation. The decline of one of them is good news for the others and similarly if one of them goes up, then the other two will suffer.

In case that happens, then the total BTC market cap will be somewhere around $20 trillion. And now compare this to the total worth of all the banknotes and coins circulating in the world, which is only a fraction of this amount. I am not sure whether the governments will be at ease with such a scenario. I am talking about countries such as China, where the national currency is heavily manipulated.

I read the thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/4ot7zq/cryptopia_delisting_eth/
https://twitter.com/cryptopia_nz/status/744344840515649536?lang=en

I can't vouch for the veracity of the claims being made on that thread. The detailed discussion was going on in the Cryptopia forum, but that forum thread can't be accessed now.

Out of the three you had listed, TUSD is clearly my favorite. They had recently conducted an external audit, which showed that the coin is 100% backed up with cash or cash equivalents. And very soon, we will be able to check the TUSD reserves in real time.

On the other hand, USDT is only 74% backed up with cash (although the promoters are claiming that this is a temporary issue and very soon they will be having full backup. DAI is also facing issues in securing 100% backup. They are even considering to increase the stability fee, so that the deficit will be covered.

Once the Bitcoin transaction fee goes up, deposits in altcoin will become more and more attractive for the gamblers. But then, the gambling sites need to tweak their websites and create all the hot-wallets, which is going to take a lot of time and effort, on top of additional expenses. The casino has to decide whether this additional effort is worth it or not.