~ Unless ICC takes any kind of action against this I don't think this problem is going to be solved. The fact that other teams are also going to make their first 11 out of foreign players is going to push them to do the same thing.
ICC will not be taking any action and none of the Emirati or GCC nations will riot even if they fill the team with foreign players as literally there is no GCC citizen is playing the game and you cannot say the same with any other country which is taking the game of Cricket seriously as there will be serious protest from the players if any board thinks about filling with outside players . As far as i know these GCC countries are not scouting players from other countries but rather they are in the team because they migrated to that country searching for a job and then end up playing Cricket and then getting including in the national team by building a career playing club Cricket.
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~ And the most disappointing thing is the correlation between Bitcoin and the stock market. Friend of mine that works for one of the biggest hedge funds tells me the BTC is going to zero value against the USD What is the grand revelation that you found regarding the correlation between the BTCitcoin market and the stock market. I bet you cannot find the correlation now as the cryptocurrency market is in a bear phase, there might be momentary aspects which might create an illusion that it is more correlated but it is not. As for the friend and his vision, ask him to learn about BTCitcoin rather than mere speculate without knowing what he is talking about and he is not the first person to profess that during a bear market .
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~ Saw the interview of UAE captain Rizwan mentioning they need to win the match against Bangladesh. Based on the previous match close end I believed this to be a win for UAE. At the starting UAE could've made some runs, but the bottom order contributed good and take to the score 137 runs. In the coming matches UAE will perform better. The odds are sometimes too good to be true especially during live betting between UAE and Bangladesh, not sure what the odds makers are thinking most of the times as they are giving a good return to some of the betting options they are providing . Bangladesh is not playing with their best team but hard to believe that UAE would rewrite history with an upset.
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~ Well, Israel Adesanya fought a hard fight against this dude, I think Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa as well that the fight have become a decision lost to Yoel Romero that is how a freak of nature deal inside the ring, before ending up in Bellator that is how durable this fighter can be, giving the fight to Izzy, and even if Izzy has won Yoel Romero thinks he is the dominating fighter, that he has said that Israel Adesanya just runs inside the cage, The only thing that is missing for Yoel Romero in his career is winning a belt, he won the interim bout but since he missed the weight he was not eligible to hold the title and now since he is in Bellator i would like to see him winning a belt either at Middle Weight if he is able to make weight or for the Light Heavyweight title. All of his losses were close fights, his athletics ability and his quick bursts offenses are his strength. I really don't know on what age he would still go until he retires but I think maybe 48? but that will be a tough one for him,
As long as he is able to maintain his health and perform at this highest level, he will be fighting.
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~ Be interesting to hear who is for and against micro cap altcoins?
If you own any what is your plan with them and if not why do you not believe in them?
It depends upon the market situation, if it is a bull market there is nothing wrong in investing a few hundred here and there in new projects as the projects might rally if the team is good in advertising them. In this market situation i will not risk in investing in any micro cap alts, instead i will be investment and accumulating BTCitcoin for the next rally rather than looking for those micro caps but will start looking by next year mid to find any interesting ones.
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~ Meanwhile, Pakistan hasn't played ODI and test cricket for quite a while so it's difficult to say how they are in ODI format.
The last Test series Pakistan played was their tour to Sri Lanka and Pakistan won the first match and Sri Lanka won the second one and tied the series and it was in July. Pakistan toured Netherlands in August and played 3 ODI, even though it was not high scoring matches the bowlers were good enough to defeat Netherlands. With every team focusing on T20 World Cup there is not much Test and ODI until that time.
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Judging by this find, it is possible that Satoshi chose between the names "netcoin" and "bitcoin", but chose the second option, or he prepared absolutely two projects, but the first one was not released at all. What other options do you allow?
Like pooya87 mentioned, i doubt whether Satoshi was having any confusion on the name especially when the domain was registered and i have read majority of his public post and i do not remember him talking about Netcoin anywhere. There was a shady coin in 2013 by the same name which was run by Leroy Fodor and there was a battle by Bruno Kucinskas to expose them back in the day. I checked their domain and it was registered on 2010-05-05 and not as mentioned in the tweet. ~ We have already established that the domain was registered for the first time in 2008, and that it was subsequently re-registered after it expired the following year. Yes i saw that but other than the Sept 1 registry details we cannot see the details like it is shown by the OP, how OP got those details showing state code and country code etc to be precise.
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Moving Cameron Green at the top of the order has changed the way he bats and he played well in the top order in the last matches as well and it was a great move by the management giving him the freedom to play the shots. Australia got a really great start but they lost both their openers and they need Glenn Maxwell who is struggling needs to bat throughout the innings and if he starts scoring runs the complexion of Australia will change completely for the upcoming World Cup.
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Yoel Romero is far from finishing his MMA carrier judging by his last brutal KO win against Melvin Manhoef, and he made it look so easy. In few months he is going to have 46 years and he can maybe go for another try on light-heavyweight category title belt. Yoel Romero is a real genetic freak of nature and no one i know will be looking like him at 46 years old and still fight at the highest level and this was a predictable result against Melvin Manhoef who is fighting his last bout but the upset for me in this card was Mads Burnell as i expected him to win and was a heavy favorite and still Pedro Carvalho fought his way to victory and messed my parlay.
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~ Went from a peak of $147 to an unbelievable $0.006203 !! Checked their page, they're still in business Any other hidden "gems" ? Are you considering these coins are gems, my advise will be not to invest in those coins and those are not gems but traps. If you check the market you will find plenty of tokens that were launched in the past two years who went down considerably and only a few tokens will rally considering the project development and the team involved as not even coin will recover from this slump.
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A friend of mine works in a casino (land-based) and he told me yesterday that there was a client who with a stroke of luck won a good amount, about $8k. He exchanged the chips for cash and went home. After about half an hour, my friend sees him walk back in the door and went on a gambling binge all the night, only to end up losing his winnings and more. You will see many cases like this if you are working in a casino or you could even watch high rollers in online casinos where they keep on winning for a while and then end up loosing big if they keep on continuing with the obsession. There was a time i used to take screenshots of stupid rolls like waging 80 BTC for 1.02 odds and end up loosing last year if i believe correctly in Stake, so these sort of obsessions are a common theme and finally end up loosing more .
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~ Running out non-striker when game on the line? Hell yeah!! Meltdown from the SKY commentators was amazing.
If it was the other gender there would have been a riot with the way India took the last wicket. I placed a bet for England for win the match considering it was a small total to chase and a win here for India means England would be whitewashed for the first time and yet they failed to win the match and i messed up my bet . It was a great game while it lasted and i thought England could win the match even with the last wicket standing .
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~ Indeed mate, these kinds of fights are risky to bet because we cannot take away the chance that both camps might have some agreements even before the fight was announced. We all know in the first place why Silva and Jake Paul have agreed to fight and that's because of the money, alone! What else? There's no bad blood between them or known rivalry, they've just surfaced suddenly because they know that their equation will give them millions. Their fight may be interesting to watch but this is not a pure professional fight even if it's considered as a pro-fight. All sporting event takes place because money is involved, we are not living during the Rome colosseum tournaments where slaves were forced to fight . If not for the money who in the right mind will participate in getting their face punched and you do not need bad blood and drama or a huge rivalry to set a match up. The prime audience who will purchase the PPV will be MMA fans who likes to see Anderson Silva back in boxing and the other set of fans who wants to see Jake Paul getting knocked out. What is a pure professional fight .
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Finally the 8 over match have come to an end. India won by 6 wickets and 4 balls left. It was Rohit Sharma who made it a win for India with his performance of 46 runs from 20 balls. The finishing took place as expected, Dinesh Karthik ended with a four. Now the T20 series got levelled and the third T20 will be the decider. Batting second have won in both the matches. Weather messed up today's match, it is hard to predict T20 let alone 8 over a side match . India is still including Rishabh Pant in the side and i think he needs some rest as he is not good enough in the T20 side with the players in the bench.
Surprised to see new players popping up for England as well, Ben Duckett and Harry Brook took England to victory with their innings and i expected Pakistan to give a tough challenge this time as well but England bowlers were able to pick wickets at the right time to break the momentum.
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I've read somewhere that ETC's hashrate increased by a large margin after the much-awaited "Merge" on the ETH blockchain. It seems that most miners are moving to ETC instead of the newly-created ETHW fork. The original chain (ETC) has been around the scene for a couple of years now, but the recent migration of miners might encourage developers to build new dApps and tokens on it. If adoption grows like crazy, we might never see ETC in the "double digits". The market is bearish right now, so ETC is having a hard time getting past $40. But in crypto land, anything's possible. If there are new projects being built on ETC then we would see a rally in price, but once we see more projects being built on the network how they will mitigate the scaling issues it could encounter. ~ The miners are only using POW coins as a way to get cash. These POW mechanism was a garbage thing when it comes to the coin without limited supply. ETC has no total supply and it will become only a money grabber for the miners. Only people who wanna risking their money try to buy ETC in this case. Staking in POS is a holy cow to get some heavenly blessing and POW miners are just using for the money grab . POS is centralized and not trustable, anyone can sell their stakes anytime and that is not the case with miners as they invest heavily in miners and they do not run away with the coins once they discard the hardware .
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I would be waiting to see if any action is actually taken as regards rising carbon emissions. The U.N has become largely reactive in recent years, not taking action to prevent situations, condemning them after it happens and still not taken concrete actions. I would expect less from U.N considering any action would put them against China. If they impose huge tax on China they will divert that tax to the companies that are responsible for the pollution and they can target manufacturing units of Nike, Cisco, IBM, Apple and there are several other US and European companies that are running their manufacturing units in China . Like the legendary Robin Hood, high ranking UN members are calling for tax hikes on oil companies. They want to tax wealthy fossil fuel enterprises so they can share greater wealth with the poor. Those taxes will be upon the end users rather than these companies taking any loss. This path could take the UN on a collision course with china. Tax hikes on oil companies will make global shipping and trade more expensive. If cost of shipping becomes untenable, local sources of manufacturing and supply will be sought to replace centralized production abroad. The trend could diminish china's role as the world's centralized production hub. The two paths appear to conflict. I wonder if we'll see a compromise or resolution to this dilemma anytime soon. In a hypothetical situation if China ask these companies to stop their manufacturing units citing carbon emissions, will these companies search for another country to set up their manufacturing units and what benefit is there by increasing all these taxes which becomes unbearable for everyone else. If the resolution should be to save climate, they need to work on that aspect rather than planning to implement more tax and the rate of pollution will carry on as usual.
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There is no opportunity to underestimate anyone in the T20 format. When England scored 199 most of the supporters were disappointed especially those who supported Pakistan. But the result was opposite. In the end Pakistan team managed to score a long. The T20 World Cup is just around the corner and Pakistan's performance at that time is never to be underestimated. Now Pakistan can also be the holder of the World Cup winner title.
Pakistan chased a total of 199 runs without loosing any wickets and it was a great match and an awesome run chase by the openers and good to see Babar Azam back in form with a century. When it comes to the World Cup winners, anyone can be a winner and can defeat any team on their given day and do not forget that T20 is held in Australia, home team advantage will sometimes help. Pakistan dropped the catch of Moeen Ali if not there is no way England would have scored this much runs.
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~ Today England Women won the toss and they decided to take filling. I think England Women took the right decision. Those who bat first in this field lose most of the matches. Now India is batting. India have now lost 5 wickets. They have scored 333 in 50 overs. It is not yet known who will win this match.
It was a surprise to see that India Woman scored 333 runs and anything above 300 runs is still a huge total to chase for Woman's Cricket and full credits to Harmanpreet Kaur to play a captains innings as i never expected India to win while touring England. England lost their 8 wicket and it looks like England will be loosing by a huge margin. Edit: India won by 88 runs.
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~ I agree, with mobile phone it is like we have a portable casino that can be accessed anytime and anywhere. Mobile phone can strengthen the urge to gamble because the temptation is just around our palm. With an internet, gambling apps can be access almost in an instant with just a press of the gambling application shortcut. Playing with a mobile phone will not give you the same level of experience like you get in a real casino and if anyone thinks that mobile casinos are fascinating to spend a lot of money then you need to seek help from a doctor . It can also increase the risk of gambling addiction because of how easy we can access gambling do experience all sort of things that make a person addicted to gambling. As long as you have savings in your account you will gamble, after that what happens, he has to start from scratch to build those savings and no one in the right sense will gamble with everything you have thinking you will recover the lost money. In a physical casino yes you get the rush and the comradery that comes with it but not in online ones .
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~ I sold my holdings on 13th/Sep/22 for $1.7k+ because I just knew within my self that the price will drop to $1500, just as I presume it happened.
I would say you held on to the coin a bit longer as i sold them double the current valuation last year and i am yet to enter once again because i was waiting for the market to go down further below $1000 but now i have to rethink again about entering again since it migrated to POS. franky1 made a great calculation about the price after the migration and it makes sense and it would be better to stay away from Ethereum as you can expect the price to go down further .
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