The proposal was rejected, right? This is what I could find from CNBC:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/mexican-billionaire-salinas-says-he-wants-to-give-his-bank-clients-access-to-bitcoin.html

Bank of Mexico shoots down billionaire Ricardo Salinas’ plans to bring bitcoin to Banco Azteca


The central bank has issued a statement, clarifying that it is prohibited to use Bitcoin (or any of the altcoins) in the banking system. Ricardo Salinas Pliego may want his bank to accept BTC. But that is not possible unless they get the approval from the Banco de México. It was much better to post this thread, after getting the confirmation.

Is there any confirmation on how many coins he owned? Somewhere in this forum, I found a crazy claim that Mircea Popescu owned BTC1,000,000 in his wallets. There is not even a 0.01% chance that this is true (unless he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto). In one of the news portals, I found this claim that he had $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency with him. Now this is more believable for me. BTW, the circumstances surrounding his death sounds suspicious. What are the chances that he will venture in to a part of Playa Hermosa, which is known to be dangerous? 

For those who have been following the ETH prices for the last few months, it is very difficult to make the investment now. Back in 2020, Ethereum was trading at a range of BTC0.016-BTC0.018. The prices have increased by 3-4 times since then. I am someone who thought that the rates back in 2020 was on the higher side (I was even considering to convert some of my ETH to BTC). Now it is almost unthinkable to purchase ETH at current levels, after such a crazy bull run. The psychological barrier will always be there.

I agree. Only the wins by Czechia and Switzerland can be considered as upset wins. Portugal was one of the tournament favorites. But their current team is more like a one man army led by Ronaldo. And England and Germany are more like equals, with recent performance giving an edge to England. Germany is the same team which suffered a humiliating defeat against North Macedonia a few months ago. And let's also not forget the fact that the match took place at the Wembley Stadium, which gave a massive advantage to England.

If they want to ban Trump, then fine. They can ban him. But then the same yardstick must be applied to others. I have seen a lot of politicians in the Middle East and Asia making tweets, that can be interpreted as direct calls to genocide. But Twitter never bans them (as posted earlier, the tweet from Mahathir Mohammed is the perfect example). Now the Nigerian president got banned using the same excuse. My issue here is not that Trump or Buhari is banned by Twitter. My issue is that the same rule is not applied when Mahathir Mohammed makes a tweet supporting genocide.

How this is possible? Are you living in Sweden, where they tried the "herd immunity" approach (and failed in it)? In almost every other country, lockdown was imposed at one time or the other. I don't think that there are any exceptions. In certain countries such as Greece and Australia, I heard that lockdown was imposed for as much as 6 months. And here in India we had lockdown of 7 weeks during the first phase and then for around 1-1.5 months during the second phase (although during the second phase it was the state governments which imposed the lockdown).

After a brief lull, England is once again witnessing a spike in the number of new infections. The government is concerned about the spread of the Delta variant. I would say that at this point it is premature to allow crowd in to the stadiums. Copa America is also going on now, and hundreds of cases have been reported from fans who were allowed inside the stadiums. I don't want the same to happen with cricket tournaments. Unlike football, cricket is regarded as a sport that is best watched in TV.

It is surprising that a draw between England and Germany is having odds greater than 3.00. In a match between two teams of equal strength, I would have thought that a draw would have more favorable odds. England may be the slight favorites, but the German defense has performed well during the group phase. IMO, I would give 50% chance for two teams having equal amount of goals against their name after the regulation time. Well.. that is unless one of the players get red card which gives the opposite team a numerical advantage (similar to what happened with Netherlands).

Obviously if you want to live in a decent neighborhood, then the cost of living would be high. Maybe the other posters are talking about living in urban slums, or remote villages. I would not prefer that option, because although the crime rate has declined recently, El Salvador has a reputation of being home to some of the most violent gangs in Latin America. Obviously, the price of security can't be measured, just as Lucius stated. If you get kidnapped by some of these gang members, then none of your savings will come to any use.

There seems to be a lot of confusion related to the Africrypt robbery. The investors claim that coins amounting to $4 billion were stolen, but Raess Cajee (one of the promoters) issued a statement claiming that there has been a hack and they lost only around $5 million worth of assets. The Africrypt users are unable to access their account or withdraw their funds. And the promoters have fled to the United Kingdom. My question is, if the promoters are correct, then why they fled from South Africa? The excuse that they received death threats is not that believable.

Ups and downs will be there because of market fluctuations and profit booking. But if you are investing in genuine coins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano and BNB, then you can be assured that in the long term you will end up with good returns. But if you are investing in shitcoins, there is no such guarantee. If you are lucky, then you may end up with good profits. But in most of the cases, those who invest in such coins suffer huge losses. It is not unlikely to lose your entire capital on such projects.

Rather than selecting the token based on lower transaction fee and other parameters, I would prioritize the safety aspect. And in this case I would go with Bitcoin BEP2, because it is issued by one of the most reputed cryptocurrency exchanges (Binance). Wrapped Bitcoin is issued by BitGo and therefore I would consider them as reliable as well. Also, the WBTC protocol is maintained by the DAO, which adds to the security of this token. Now coming to RBTC, I am really confused. Because I don't know much about it.

Even in India, there is a lot of propaganda going on against vaccination. I can show you my WhatsApp account, and it is full of spam audio messages which claim that vaccinated people are likely to die soon and they will become impotent. Unfortunately, a lot of people (mostly the illiterate ones) believe that these rumors are true and they refuse to get themselves vaccinated. And forget about India and the other third world nations. Even in developed nations such as the United States you will find large number of people who believe in such rumors.

I don't think that he made any crypto-related tweet today. But some of his retarded followers are flooding the social media platforms with Dogefather meme tweets. And given his inconsistency, I want to see for how long his love affair with Dogecoin is going to last. I would advice everyone who is holding Doge to at least partially dump that shitcoin. The current valuation represents an increase of at least 50,000 times from the fair value. When the crash happens, Doge is going to fell like a falling knife.

The Binance equivalent for BTC is Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB), and not EBTC. Wrapped Bitcoin is another coin that can be considered as Bitcoin equivalent. But eBTC is some worthless shitcoin called eBitcoin, which is worth around $0.50 per coin (I had the misfortune of investing in this coin back in 2017, but got rid of it in 2018). Anyway, I like the idea of creating tokens. In terms of safety, it is no more riskier than keeping your coins in exchange wallets. But the plus point here is that you will be able to save a lot in terms of transaction fees.

+700 in Sportsbet looks very attractive for Croatia, I need to admit. Yesterday, we had a big upset when Czechia defeated the Netherlands (although they were helped immensely by the red card to de Ligt). What if we have another upset today? The match will start in around 15 minutes from now, and I haven't yet decided whether I should place a bet or not. But I would say, even +600 looks attractive for Croatia, given the fact that the Spanish side is very inexperienced. If this was the same Croatia team of the 2006 or 2010, then I would have placed the bet without any second thought.

Not only Trump, but most of the American politicians are dependent on social media platforms now (especially Twitter, Facebook and Instagram). Trump used his twitter account very efficiently during most of his term. But then, weeks before the election date, Twitter started flagging his posts as "manipulated media". This disrupted his campaign plans and many of his supporters believe that this cost them swing states such as Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia. Also, both the mainstream media and the social media suppressed the news about Hunter Biden, which would have otherwise done great harm to Joe Biden's campaign.

Being an Indian, I would say that a former player like Sourav Ganguly is much more qualified to be the president of the BCCI, when compared to some of the shady guys who occupied that post previously. It is not easy to bring drastic changes to an organization which is deep rooted in corruption and nepotism such as the BCCI, but Ganguly has tried his best. And regarding the COVID situation, I agree with you. It may take a few months to get the situation here under control. Even now, the daily death toll is in excess of 1,000.

If the trade volumes and liquidity in Dex sites are as good as the Cex platforms such as Binance and Huobi, then the users will obviously prefer the Dex sites. But from my experience, I would say that it is not very profitable to deal in these dex platforms. While I was dealing in bounty tokens, the exchange rates for the same token in Dex platforms were lower by 50% or more, when compared to the rates in Cex exchanges. On top of that, for the low volume tokens, it is very difficult to liquidate large volumes at once using Dex.

Spain has selected a young and relatively inexperienced team this time. And they didn't even managed to top Group E (Spain was placed second with 5 points, while Sweden finished with 7 points). But one positive for the Spanish team is that they conceded just one goal during the preliminary phase (and that was against Poland). Croatia is not looking that good, as they are overdependent on a few players. Their only big win came against Scotland (3-1). And I checked the odds.. the odds for Croatia is around +600. Not that attractive, I would say.