The withdrawal fees were changed from 0 to 0.2 a month ago for the withdrawal of USDT as TRC20. I went with withdrawing some USDT from binance to Kucoin to buy some velo but the withdrawal fees taken were $1. It's absurd how much binance is charging for withdrawal when the fees from blockchain are most probably free for binance as they are super representative on tron blockchain. 
I use binance for it's cheaper transaction fees but these these unnecessary withdrawal fees are going to be a push factor as newer exchanges too are coming with aggressive promotions.

Central bank of Bahamas has launched the National Digital Currency. It's a distributed ledger, blockchain based technology but the coins would be regulated and minted by the central bank. Similar to what many other countries have launched.
Called the sand dollar, its price would be pegged to Bahamian dollar and would be used for domestic transaction across the island nation. The users would need to go through a KYC first and the transaction fees are told to be negligible.

https://decrypt.co/45740/bahamas-launches-its-central-bank-digital-currency

It's not for everybody though. The Chinese city Shenzhen, often referred as Silicon Valley of China, would distribute 10 million yuan ($2 million) worth of new Chinese digital currency to 50,000 of it's lucky residents. The people would be put into a lottery to bring out the winners.
It is done to test the new system and boost the adoption and use of Chinese Digital Yuan currency. The Chinese digital Yuan is already accepted in a number of retails.

Sources:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-10/china-to-issue-10-million-digital-yuan-in-first-public-test/12750320
https://news.bitcoin.com/digital-yuan-giveaway-10-million-central-bank-digital-currency/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/shenzhen-to-hand-out-10-million-digital-yuan-in-currency-giveaway

Sweden Denmark
First 3 letters make Swe-Den
And the remaining makes den-mark

[Name of site]

This is an up-to-date list of Gambling sites that accepts (direct) bankroll investment from any users in cryptocurrency. This includes users deposit getting a part of house edge profit. This does not include rakeback or mine while you gamble schemes.

The list is ordered in alphabetical order. The list is just a reference, not an investment advice and I don't take responsibility for any loss.

Link opens to announcement thread in this forum. If you want to visit the site, copy paste the URL or visit through official thread. Research yourself before making a decision to invest.

Name of site		Coins available for investment		Operatings since
Bit-exo.com		BTC, ETH, LTC, DOGE		2016
Bitvest.io		BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC, DOGE		2015
Bustabit.com		BTC		2018*
Bustadice.com		BTC		2017
Ethercrash.io		ETH		2018
Just-dice.com		CLAM		2013
Mintdice.com		BTC		2019
Wink.org		BTC		2019
Yolodice.com		BTC, LTC, DOGE		2016

* - Change of ownership.
Do share other options and updates that should be reflected in this list.

What are the war laws in the US. Does a full fledged war with China buy some time for Trump?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/politics/coronavirus-pompeo-wuhan-china-lab.html

[What is digital fast?]

What is digital fast?

Giving up all digital devices for a short period of time, such as a day or up to a week.

Why digital fast?

There are many reasons why you might want to give up your mobile phone and other devices for a brief time. You might want to enjoy time to yourself without the interference that your phone and other devices create. In other cases, you might feel like your device use has become excessive and is adding too much stress to your life.

In some situations, you might even feel like you are addicted to your devices. While technology addiction is not formally recognized as a disorder in the DSM-5, many experts believe that tech and device overuse represents a very real behavioral addiction that can lead to physical, psychological, and social problems.

Signs You Might Need a Digital Detox

• You feel anxious or stressed out if you can't find your phone
• You feel compelled to check your phone every few minutes
• You feel depressed, anxious, or angry after spending time on social media
• You are preoccupied with the like, comment, or reshare counts on your social posts
• You’re afraid that you'll miss something if you don't keep checking your device
• You often find yourself staying up late or getting up early to play on your phone
• You have trouble concentrating on one thing without having to check your phone

Reference: https://www.verywellmind.com/why-and-how-to-do-a-digital-detox-4771321

I'm going on a 48 hours digital fast starting from the time of this post. I'll not be using any electric or electronic devices including electric lights, digital heating/cooling, digital cooking device, switching off both electricity mains and phone/router connection.
I know It may seem extreme, but I need to make sure I'm in control of myself.

Nepal is one of the country that have a blanket ban on trading of cryptocurrency. But its Finance minister on an event claimed cryptocurrency to be one of the major aspect of modern economy. He claimed Cryptocurrency along with crowdsourcing and e-commerce to be the three large areas that would shape the future of economy.

He had previously claimed crypto to have failed for good.

As the case against kleiman progresses, Craig Wright produced a list of addresses that supposedly contains 1.1 million bitcoins as evidence in front of the judge, the coins mined together by Craig and Kleiman on the initial stage of Bitcoin.
https://u.today/craig-wright-provides-list-of-16404-bitcoin-btc-addresses-that-contain-95-bln-is-he-real-satoshi?amp

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcFB9ovtcx6pAnedaY6MXCw
This channel's name is Binance and probably is a fake or a hacked one. This has 240K subscribers and giving away free Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vh5cTaiJso
Which is most probably a scam.

Here's their catch

✅If you send 0.1+ Bitcoin, you will be airdropped 1+ BTC back.
✅ If you send 0.25+ Bitcoin, you will be airdropped 2.5+ BTC back. +20% bonus
✅ If you send 0.5+ Bitcoin, you will be airdropped 5+ BTC back. +25% bonus
✅ If you send 1+ Bitcoin, you will be airdropped 10+ BTC back. +30% bonus
✅If you send 5+ Bitcoin, you will be airdropped 50+ BTC back. +50% bonus
✅ If you send 10+ Bitcoin, you will be airdropped 100+ BTC back +80% bonus

Do anyone has an idea what that channel is and how they reached 240K subscribers?

I've prepared a list of best of faucets. Hope you'd all would enjoy it. I update them everyday to reflect the situation of the faucets.
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Swedish teen who started by protesting in from of the Swedish parliament for action against climate change now is the major attraction for media around the world. Time like every year selects one of the most influencing person in the year as Time's person of the year.

Ethereum research scientist Virgil Griffith allegedly went all the way to Pyongyang to teach North Korean scientist and hackers how to launder and receive money that they earn by ransoming and hacking around the world. He taught them how to effectively use Ethereum without being found.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-authorities-arrest-ethereum-research-200109230.html

Two Republican Lawmakers French hill and Bill foster wrote a formal letter to the FED asking about the plans of a Digital dollar and proposing it.
PDF to the letters

Facebook's Libra has been mentioned to justify the need
"The Facebook/Libra proposal, if implemented, could remove important aspects of financial governance outside of US jurisdiction."

“We are concerned that the primacy of the U.S. Dollar could be in long-term jeopardy from wide adoption of digital fiat currencies. Internationally, the Bank for International Settlements conducted a study that found that over 40 countries around the world have currently developed or are looking into developing a digital currency.”

“With the potential for digital currencies to further take on the characteristics and utility of paper money, it may become increasingly imperative that the Federal Reserve take up the project of developing a U.S. dollar digital currency.”

Would it influence the FED to release a block-chain based currency? What are you thoughts on them?

Binance doesn't need an introduction and they have come up with a project called venus which aims to develop regional stablecoins pegged to fiat or putting the fiat of an entire country into blockchain and hence preventing other stablecoins being used under it's jurisdiction.
It is being said that this project is a counter to Libra and their motive of being a global coin.

While this could increase the adoption, this could also make crypto more similar to the current online payment systems. What's your take on this?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/19/binance-launches-venus-which-it-calls-an-independent-regional-version-of-facebooks-libra/

Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), a global organiztion working to prevent Money Laundering is enforcing a law for any exchange or services to ask for full identity verification for anyone who transacts over $1000 at once. Rules made by FATF are obligatory.

Here's a TNW's article explaining it
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/06/12/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-fatf-regulation/

Highly anticipated ICO of the year (of last year), TON, a decentralized network for digital communication with it's Gram token had a private sale last year raising over $1.7 billion.
They are said to have a full ICO in october of this year while Gram Asia is selling some of the tokens in a IEO in liquid exchange.
The IEO would be open to all but Japanese and US citizens. The coins could be bought with US dollar or USDC stable coin but the price is not still revealed.

This year's April 1st joke was easier to recognize. 

Hi,
I've been looking to place some bets on IPL matches using cryptos but IPL is not included in the sportsbook I'm used to.
What would be the best odds providing sportsbook I can bet on IPL? I'm not very fond of in game betting and would love to seem  multiple options to bet on like the number of runs scored or wickets taken.

Ironx a planned Cardano base cyprus based exchange has raised $22.3 millions in private sell. A highly anticipated exchange having renowned figures in its team is in a partnership with Hong Kong based Emurgo, a company by Ken Kodama. It is going to have a public sell from Thursday.