@Visnu.Reang indeed it was a horrible decision to not award the late Chadwick Boseman with the award, and no matter of justification can do justice for their decision. @Saint-loup while I hadn’t wagered on this event, but if I had wagered then I would have wagered the same way you did, because I too felt that they would award him, but sadly they stunned us all. Source: https://www.tmz.com/2021/04/26/chadwick-boseman-oscars-snub-reactions-anthony-hopkins/Horrible decision? I don't think so. Anyone who have watched Anthony Hopkins performance in The Father would agree with the jury's decision. His performance was just mind blowing. Chadwick Boseman was a great actor. And his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was terrific as well. But the award can be given only to one performance, and this time it was Hopkins who got the jury's nod. |
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No need to go ballistic over his selling. From what I have heard, Tesla has sold just 10% of their Bitcoin holdings. They got the coins for a very low price in January 2021 (when the exchange rate was <$30,000 per coin) and it makes sense to do some profit booking now. It is something every intelligent investor would do. On top of that, their BTC stash is increasing with every passing day, because Tesla has started accepting Bitcoin payments for their products. I am actually happy that Tesla sold some of their holdings. It enabled them to post a quarterly profit and the Bitcoin exchange rates went up by almost 8% due to this event.
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I was thinking that after Bitcoin dominance lowers down below 50% the market will start to crash but I was wrong, instead of seeing its price rallying back high at $53k (at this post). To think about history repeats itself, I don't know but it is unlikely different in the situation we have. Because at this time, I was thinking that the market is able to stay above $40k.
The crash resulted mostly from two rumors - banking ban on Bitcoin imposed by Turkey and the proposal to increase capital gains tax by the Biden administration. In both the cases, the clarification came and it was clear that cryptocurrency users don't have much to worry. The ban in Turkey only covers purchase of goods and services with cryptocurrency and it doesn't impact the exchanges. And similarly, in the United States the tax increase is going to impact only those who earn more than $400,000 per year. |
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What they need is to elect someone with a political will that will enforce everyone to stay at home because vaccines are not very effective, after 6 months you'll once again have to be vaccinated. Seem not really an effective vaccine.
It won't help still until they lock down every city they have and every village to trace each covid patient and secure them so they won't be infecting everyone else they encounter. How else did the other country did it but constantly watching every patient for them to no infect others. Your suggestions are not practical. For how long everyone needs to stay at home? One year ago, India tried with complete lockdown, which lasted for 7 weeks (42 days). The impact of that lockdown is still visible in the form of economic contraction. And regarding the third booster dose of the vaccine, almost all the vaccine manufacturers have now made it clear that it may be mandatory. And from what I have heard, the booster dose needs to be taken 12 months after the second dose (not 6 months as you have posted). And I am not sure how you are suggesting to trace down all the CoVID 19 patients. India is reporting close to 350,000 new patients every day. The real number may be >1,000,000. How you are proposing to trace down and isolate all these people? |
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It was really sad to read the news about the epidemic. About these days, I have friends who are studying in India, and they say that there is like real hell, lots of people are dying. My friend shared that the situation in India is much worse than reported in the media, my friend said that the sense of prevention here is very poor when people are not wearing masks and crowded, indeed, when I looked at their crematoriums, my fear was still not over. There are many people saying that vaccines are made from cows' fetuses, and their religion does not allow them to vaccinate, I don't know if that is true, I have also heard of a new variant in India there is a very fast transmission rate and even if their prime minister has vaccinated twice but is still infected, pray that India will overcome this epidemic.
From what I heard from my relatives in India, a lot of fake propaganda is being spread. There are Whatsapp audio messages going around, which claims that people who get admitted to the hospitals get their organs stolen and they will never come home alive. Actually these sort of malicious messages have caused more deaths in India when compared to the infection itself. A lot of people believe in these rumors and they refuse to go to the hospitals. And in many cases they end up dead due to low Oxygen saturation. And the data released by the government suggests that more than 94% of the cases among the 60 plus age group are reported from the unvaccinated group. |
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Thanks for the clarification!
Yes, I understand perfectly well that India is the largest country in terms of population, and, conventionally, 1 million for India is not equal to 1 million for example for Spain. BUT:
- Such a sharp jump in growth in a VERY short period is very strange
- Mortality - I think it is too early to talk about this indicator, I am sure that there is a problem called "insufficient diagnosis of the causes of death." It would be more correct by the end of the year to impose on the graph the ACTUAL adjustment of population decline / mortality, with the dynamics of morbidity.
For example, in my country, the government manipulates these indicators quite noticeably, so I assume that in other countries, for the sake of its own benefits, this can happen
India is currently undergoing it's second wave of CoVID 19 pandemic. Similarly, Brazil is going through the third wave. Many other countries have already gone through the third and fourth waves of this pandemic. I am not a resident of India right now, so it is impossible to get an idea about what is going on there. Still, from what I have heard from my friends suggest that there is no large-scale manipulation of the mortality data. |
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Dubai is an open country in which even liquor is allowed in specific or designated areas.
The United Arab Emirates is one of the more progressive countries in the middle east. From what I have heard, the women are not required to cover their heads and alcoholic beverages are readily available in the major cities. But don't get overly relaxed while visiting the country. There was an incident a few months back, when an unmarried couple was arrested after the lady became pregnant outside the wedlock. The neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are much more conservative. |
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Quite a few players have decided to leave the IPL, for various reasons. The first was Andrew Tye from the Rajasthan Royals. He was worried about the worsening CoVID 19 situation in India and left the biosecure bubble to be with his family in Australia. Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson of the Royal Challengers Bangalore have also decided to leave the tournament and return to Australia. And finally Ravichandran Ashwin of Delhi Capitals has decided to leave the bubble to be with his family in Chennai. Some of his family members are rumored to be infected with the virus.
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Yeah I heard that during 2009 and 2011 when Bitcoin started the fees was not like this, but now the transaction fees of Bitcoin is getting high and higher and traders is fining it very difficult trade because of the charges thats involves, assuming Bitcoin price is low the charges would have become low, so I understand that what is making Bitcoin charge to be increasing is because of it's increments in price.
First of all, back in 2011 we had only a few tens of thousands of active users. The blocks were almost never full, and therefore it was possible to get confirmations by paying zero fee. Now we have tens of millions of active users and therefore the number of transactions are much higher. And secondly, the exchange rate has risen by 10,000x from 2011. So even if the transaction fee had remained the same (in terms of Sat), you would be paying a higher fee. |
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My suggestion is going to look around the crypto markt, such as visiting coinmarketcap website, see which old major currencies dont pump in this BULL period, that kind of coin is your investment object, picking 2~3 coins to buy. From my 9 years of experience with cryptocurrency, I would warn you that this is a wrong strategy. If a coin is stagnant when most of the other cryptocurrencies are moving up, it can be due to two reasons - either the promoters are dumping their coins in bulk, or the project has failed to gain acceptance in the market. In both the cases, I would argue against investing in that particular coin. Consider it, only if you have concrete reasons to believe that it will go up in the future. Don't invest in any coin blindly, because it is stagnant. |
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Well Armenia should be doable for Germany. An end tournament without Germany will be very strange. Same we had a few years ago when the Netherlands didn't qualify
We are still in the initial stages and the possibility of Germany not qualifying for the main tournament in 2022 is quite remote. That said, the match against Armenia is no cakewalk. They have 3 wins from 3 matches now (vs Romania, Iceland and Liechtenstein). But this group is very tough, compared to the others. Apart from Germany and Armenia, we have Romania and Iceland (who are famous for upsets). And North Macedonia have already proved their mettle by destroying Germany. |
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OK guys.. congratulations for all those who made the bet in favor of Anthony Hopkins. It was a completely unexpected, but 100% deserving win by the great actor. And I don't think that too many people made a bet on Chadwick Boseman, because the odds were really low. Nomadland won the award for the best picture (which was expected, but I thought that Minari was better). Anyway, not much to complain about the awards this time.  |
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From 71% a few months back, the dominance has decreased by almost one-third. The altcoin market share had gone below 25% level (if we exclude stablecoins and Bitcoin forks), and that is now close to 46%. So in general, we can say that altcoins have gone up by 3x, when compared to Bitcoin. This is strange, because the increase in acceptability was for Bitcoin and not altcoin. And therefore I would assume that most of the altcoin rally is due to pure hype, and propaganda in the social media.
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This loser (Eun Sung-soo) is actually threatening to close down the cryptocurrency exchanges, if they don't apply for the new licensing system - Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) permit. The registration was open only a few weeks back and therefore it will be foolish to say that the exchanges are not trying to get the permit. BTW, given the strict requirements, I don't think more than one or two dozen exchanges will opt for the registration. The remainder will simply move their operations to some other country.
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You know..... The US debt is slowly but surely ..sucking out the live blood out of the US economy. The focus is not on creating jobs and retaining those jobs... but just to stimulate the economy with the printing of toilet paper money. On the other hand... the Americans are at their strongest, with their backs to the wall... and you cannot take that away from them. (Look what happened after 911 and all the natural disasters that hit them) I honestly think they will bounce back, but they will lose their global hold as the reserve currency for a lot of nations. Governments will lose faith in the US Dollar and the US will have to fight to get it back. (It is also possible that the new Chinese Govcoin might be the next Bitcoin)  With the election of Socialists back to power, the US will just speed up its slide towards economic collapse. Already there are talks about increasing the long term capital gains tax to as much as 60%, and hiking the corporate tax. Another major war (similar to the ones they had in Iraq and Afghanistan) will cost the United States another 2-3 trillion USD and that will destroy the economy completely. Actually I am surprised that China hasn't overtaken the US yet in terms of GDP. |
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With rumors and tweets having so much impact on the exchange rates, it will be foolish to believe that there will be no impact on the prices if Satoshi Nakamoto shows up all of a sudden. But at this point, it can't be said whether the impact will be positive or negative. A lot will depend on what will happen to the stash of close to 1 million coins, which Satoshi mined during 2009-10. If he decides to sell at least a portion of these coins, then we can expect a major crash in the cryptocurrency market.
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Earlier today people are blaming the country political parties for pressing ahead with crowded campaign rallies for state elections. India daily case members began rising at the end of February after falling steadily from mid- September 2020. At the same time, India political parties have been campaigning for a series of state elections in West Bengal,Assan,keral and Tamil Nadu.~
If the elections campaigns were responsible for this big spike, then why Maharashtra remains as the worst affected state with one-fourth of the daily cases and one-third of the daily deaths? No election campaign is going on there. The second worst affected state is Delhi, and once again there are no election rallies going on there. The slow pace of vaccination is responsible for the spike in India. Initially the vaccination campaign was going on at a good pace, but they were forced to scale down after the US administration placed an embargo on the export of raw materials needed for vaccine production. |
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Here are the latest stats from 25th April 2021. Total market cap: $1,876,040,756,085 ( -4.90%) Bitcoin: $938,884,626,218 (50.046%) Bitcoin forks: $21,417,475,954 (1.142%) Stablecoins: $75,591,733,721 (4.029%) Altcoins: $832,238,537,335 (44.361%) WBTC: $7,908,382,857 (0.422%) This is the change compared to my last post: Bitcoin: -1.999%
Bitcoin forks: -0.100%
Stablecoins: +0.470%
Altcoins: +1.623%
WBTC: +0.007%Here are the latest stats from 18th April 2021.
Total market cap: $1,972,676,585,785 (-3.47%)
Bitcoin: $1,026,683,497,608 (52.045%)
Bitcoin forks: $24,497,647,263 (1.242%)
Stablecoins: $70,213,337,782 (3.559%)
Altcoins: $843,098,634,841 (42.739%)
WBTC: $8,183,468,291 (0.415%)
This is the change compared to my last post:
Bitcoin: -2.454%
Bitcoin forks: +0.219%
Stablecoins: +0.355%
Altcoins: +1.891%
WBTC: -0.012% |
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It is always easy to blame on others. When Bangladesh became independent in 1971, the population was 65 million. Now the population stands at 165 million and is increasing at a rate of 2% per year. Forests are being cut down at an alarming rate. Indigenous tribals of Chittagong Hill Tracts are being exterminated, and their land being invaded by Bangladeshis. Many of the tribals now live as refugees in Myanmar and India. And after doing all this, Bangladesh blames the Western countries for its suffering.
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The match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals looks evenly placed as of now. SRH got a good start, but David Warner just threw away his wicket in a needless runout. A lot will depend on how the SRH batsmen will fare against the DC spinners (Amit Mishra, Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin). Because after Kane Williamson, the lower order is comprised of out of form, or inexperienced players. And this is why Warner's dismissal is going to be very crucial.
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