Pathetic performance from the Zimbabwe bowlers. Now Bangladesh need just 7 runs in 9 balls. Once again poor captaincy from Zimbabwe. Similar to what happened in the first T20 match, their best bowler was brought in after it was all over. If he had bowled the 18th over instead of Dion Myers, then Zimbabwe had a chance. Myers conceded 15 runs from his over and destroyed the chances of Zimbabwe with that. Blessing Muzarabani picked up a wicket (Mahmudullah) in the 19th over, but by now it is all over.

LOL.. Kohli has at least 4 years of international cricket left. So why do you think that his reign is about to end? If I remember correctly, you were saying the same after India lost the WTC final as well. It is clear that no one in the BCCI has the courage to take any action against him. There were proposals to limit Kohli's captaincy to test format, and make someone else the ODI and T20 captain. But that was never put in to practise, because the board didn't wanted to antagonize Kohli. Personally, I don't think that this is a serious issue. Indian team performs well irrespective of who handles the captaincy. So if the BCCI want to continue with the status quo, it is perfectly OK with me.

Being a Bitcoiner for almost 10 years, this is one of the aspects that I am quite worried about. But the situation has improved over the years. It is possible to purchase gift cards with BTC, and these gift cards can be used for 90% of the occasions. So in all cases you don't need to convert Bitcoin to fiat cash. 5-6 years ago, it was possible to purchase prepaid debit cards that can be loaded with BTC. But due to the added regulations, doing so has become extremely hard nowadays. Finally I would say that using Bitcoin directly has remained a challenge, because the acceptability hasn't improved much in the last 2-3 years.

When I first read the title, I was just hoping for another PayPal style adoption. But it looks like that is not the case. JP Morgan simply don't want to take the risk of dealing with cryptocurrency directly. For them, dealing with Greyscale is safer than dealing directly in BTC or ETH. I don't have an issue here, but it would have been a big boost for Bitcoin to have one of the largest banks accepting it. Perhaps this is what we should expect from the other large institutions as well? Most of them would like to deal with cryptocurrency in an indirect manner.

And what is wrong with that? If I was in Elon's position, and if I could influence millions of people and manipulate the stocks and cryptocurrencies, then I would do the same as well. The fault lies with the retarded people who blindly believes him. Look at how these idiots rushed to invest in Dogecoin, after Elon made a couple of tweets mentioning that coin. The fact that Doge was created to mock the entire idea of cryptocurrency didn't discouraged any of them to make huge investments with that shitcoin. So who is to blame here exactly?

It will be wrong to put all the blame on the noobs. I can understand their perspective. The media hypes Bitcoin (and the other cryptocurrencies) whenever there is a bull run. This is the time when a lot of the new users decide to make their investment with BTC. Unfortunately, this means that when they make their investment, the prices will be close to ATH levels. And when the correction phase starts, the mainstream media will just reverse their stance. They will publish articles such as "Will Bitcoin become worthless?" or "Is Bitcoin the biggest Ponzi scheme ever invented"... once again, the noobs will be influenced by this and they will do panic selling. This cycle repeats every 3-4 years.

I have a feeling that China is just sliding down slowly in terms of sports capabilities. When they topped the medals table in 2008, everyone was saying that China will dominate the Olympic games for many decades to come. That simply didn't happened and in 2012 they slipped to the 2nd place. And in 2016, they ended up at the 3rd spot (behind Great Britain). I guess this has something to do with the reducing number of young people in China. As a result of the one-child policy, most of the population is now middle-aged or elderly.

In the Olympics, largest number of medals are allotted in athletics and some of the other disciplines such as gymnastics. China is weak in these and the US is expected to dominate.

You can check this:
https://www.gracenote.com/virtual-medal-table/
https://olympicmedalspredictions.com/

According to the expectations from most of the gamblers, US is expected to finish first with 40 golds, followed by China at 33. As the host nation, Japan may finish third. Sportsbooks have given the odds for US topping the medal table at 1.07 (92% probability). For China, the odds are +850.

New strains are being reported from all over the world. Even the Delta strain in India has mutated into an even more contagious strain called Delta plus. Right now the focus is on this strain, because it is causing a lot of damage to countries such as Indonesia and Thailand. Even the UK has reported a spike in number of new infections, due to this particular strain. Dozens of strains have been identified till now, and one other strain that has been studied widely is the Colombian strain (B.1.621), that has spread to other countries.

We have already discussed about this multiple times over the past few years. The problem with Zimbabwe is not that they lack talent. The real issue is that the skilled players don't remain in the team for long, due to political uncertainty and low wages. Historically, the Zimbabwe team has been dependent on the white players, although the population of whites in that country has fallen from 200,000 to 30,000 in the last three decades. Even now, they are over-dependent on players such as Brendan Taylor, Ryan Burl and Sean Williams. Now it needs to be seen whether these people have a real commitment towards a country, that has almost exterminated their ethnic group.

There are enough black players in the domestic tournaments, but these tournaments don't have the required quality. Especially in the batting department, Zimbabwe has struggled to groom enough black players. Trevor Madondo was the first quality black Zimbabwean batsmen, but unfortunately he passed away in 2001 at the age of 24. Then Tatenda Taibu impressed a lot of people with his batting skills. But he retired at the age of 29, when his form was at his peak. The reason given was that he considered cricket as against his Christian faith. 

I agree with you on Shakib and Kohli. Shakib has a reputation of being short tempered, and clearly that hasn't helped things. However, I believe that Smith received disproportionately harsh treatment from the ICC and CA. When players can use saliva and sweat for changing the condition of the ball, then why only sandpaper is illegal? Also, it doesn't make any sense to ban two batsmen for ball tampering. Do you really believe that the Australian bowlers are all angels and they had no idea about this?

China is not the sole reason. The closure of Bitcoin mines have contributed to the decline in a big way, but some role was played by the hostile actions of the government in the United States. Ever since Joe Biden was elected as the president, and Janet Yellen appointed as the secretary of the treasury, the government attitude towards cryptocurrency in that country have become more confrontational. On top of that, several lawmakers, including Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin have become more vocal nowadays. 

Apart from 2-3 players such as Blessing Muzarabani, Sikandar Raza and Brendan Taylor, the rest of Zimbabwe squad is not up to a level that is skilled enough to take part in international cricket. If they perform this bad when playing against Bangladesh, then you can imagine what would happen when they take on some of the big 3 teams. ICC needs to rethink on their Zimbabwe strategy. $12 million in annual funds poured in to Zimbabwe every year for the last two decades haven't given any returns. If a fraction of that amount was given to associate nations such as Nepal or PNG, then they would have performed much better than this.

It is not a money minded decision. FIFA want more representation from Asia and Africa, when compared to Europe and Americas. Because they want to spread the sport and want to retain its monopoly. CONMEBOL has only 10 member nations, and they have been given 6.5 slots. And even with the additional slots for Asia, they still have only 8 slots for 46 member nations. It is a very difficult compromise. If you want more diversity, then obviously you may need to give slots to some of the weaker teams over more deserving ones. So in 2026, it is very much possible to see teams like Iraq and Syria managing to qualify, while higher ranking sides such as Peru and Venezuela may fail to do so. CONMEBOL is allotted only 6.5 slots, but they have 8 member nations having a FIFA ranking of 35 or above.

That is not always the case. For example, for the manufacturing of solar panels, all you need is Aluminum and Silica, and they are quite abundant. The minor components such as acrylic plastic and copper cables are also not that difficult to source. And once the cells are damaged or expired,they can be recycled with minimal effort. Same for wind power generation as well. The turbines are mostly made of steel, and secondary materials include fiberglass, plastic, copper and aluminium. Tidal energy turbines also have similar composition.

The term used here is wrong. Rather than asking who is happier, the OP should ask who is more successful. It doesn't make sense to ask whether an investor is happy or not. He can be happy due to many reasons. Happiness and profit are not the same. Ideally we can say that those who get more profit should be more happier, but arguments can be made. In other words, the OP can ask who is getting rich, or who is getting more ROI. But if you use the word "happy", then under these circumstances it really gets weird.

Some people with criminal mindset are spreading such unsubstantiated rumors. The governments have already published the data of people who faced adverse reaction as a result of vaccination. There were a handful of deaths after vaccination, but most of them were due to other causes. Till now 3.71 billion doses of the vaccine has been administered around the globe. Only a few hundred deaths have been reported (and even among them the vast majority may be due to comorbidities). IMO, those who are spreading these rumors must be arrested and charged with murder.

The second franchise league organized by the ECB, The Hundred starts from today (it will take place along with the T20 Blast, which is organized by the counties). The first match is between Oval Invincibles and Manchester Originals, and will start at 4:30 pm GMT. The Oval side includes big names such as Sam Curran, Sam Billings, Tom Curran, Saqib Mahmood, Sunil Narine, Jason Roy and Tabraiz Shamsi (who controversially replaced Sandeep Lamichhane two days ago), while the Manchester squad features Jos Buttler, Carlos Brathwaite, Lockie Ferguson, Colin Munro, Ollie Robinson and Phil Salt.   

I don't think that it needs 50 years. Because already we have countries recognizing Bitcoin as legal tender (El Salvador). Both US Dollar and Bitcoin are legal tender in El Salvador and I don't think that one needs to replace the other. Let both fiat currency and cryptocurrency co-exist, so that those who want either of the two can do it as per their convenience. And by recognizing Bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador has classified it as a currency. Those who have made profit with Bitcoin doesn't need to pay capital gains tax as a result of this classification.

Boxing is a different game altogether. The score-lines may or may not correspond to the actual performance. One good example is the first match between Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin. Out of the three judges, Dave Moretti scored 115-113 in favor of Golovkin, while Adalaide Byrd scored 118-110 in favor of Álvarez. How can two judges have such different scorecards, when they are watching the same game? So in boxing, the winner of the game may not always be the one who gave the best performance.