Those who made their investment in both TRX and XRP during 2017-18 are still in loss ranging from 90% to 98%. A temporary spike, which may or may not last for more than a few days will have hardly any impact on the long term potential of these coins. The basics remain the same. There is hardly any real life usage for TRX and XRP, and their acceptability is actually going down. They are losing competition to technologically superior altcoins. My advice would be to cash out using this opportunity and use the funds to make investment with BTC, ADA, DOT or BNB.

It is not crypto that has suffered. On the other hand, the cryptocurrency users went through a lot of harassment and torture for trying to popularize cryptocurrency. In India, a Bitcoiner was arrested in Bangalore, for trying to install a Bitcoin ATM. He spent a few days in jail, and his mobile phones and laptops were seized. Many of them fell victims to hacks and scams, losing their hard earned money in the process. I have myself lost large number of coins to various scams and Ponzis (mostly in 2013).

It is not surprising. Jair Bolsonaro is the Brazilian version of Donald Trump. He is a businessman (similar to Trump) and therefore opposed the lockdowns. And he was a proponent of the "herd immunity" strategy, which was obviously a big failure. Unfortunately for those who are living outside Brazil, the mismanagement of pandemic in Brazil has resulted in the emergence of lethal virus strains, that are spreading to other countries.

American economy is in a very bad state and things were made even worse by the pandemic. Let's not forget the fact that US was the country which was worst affected from the pandemic. It has reported the maximum number of infections (31,496,976) and the maximum number of deaths (569,282) for any country in the world. And if they start new wars in between this pandemic, then that will result in an economic meltdown (not just in the US, but around the world).

A lot of talk about Nomadland, and people claim that it is almost assured of the prize for best movie. I checked the odds for other movies, but they are far behind. The Trial of the Chicago 7 seems to be in the second place, but there is a wide gap between the two. Moonlight and Hidden Figures are also talked about as potential nominations. A few others in picture are Minari, Promising Young Woman and Judas and the Black
Messiah.

Well.. there is always a possibility. Crawford is in his prime and he will pose a very tough challenge to Pacquiao. But I remember the Thurman vs Pacquiao fight, and the same was said at that time as well. A few weeks before the match, Thurman was the overwhelming favorite, with odds ranging from 1.4-1.6. But Pacquiao won the fight despite his disadvantages (with from and age). The lesson is to never underestimate Pacquiao.

^^^ At the time of the IPL auctions, did Moeen Ali communicated to the BCCI that it will not be possible for him to wear alcohol related logos? If he made that request, then I am OK with an exception being given to him. But if this is a last minute request, then I have to say that he is going overboard. SNJ is sponsoring CSK for many years now (since 2019 if I am not wrong). I would be disappointed if they are given a raw deal here, despite spending a lot of money in sponsorship through all these years.

BTW, there are Muslim players such as Imran Tahir and KM Asif in the CSK squad, who have been wearing this jersey for long time now.

If the virus is fake, how do you explain close to 3 million deaths? If you argue that these are just elderly people dying of flu and other old-age diseases, then I have to disagree. Because the simple fact is that most of the countries have reported a huge increase in total deaths (when we take 2020 vs 2019).

Here is a chart from the United Kingdom. How do you explain the spike for May-June 2020?

And here is a chart from Brazil, Russia.etc:


If CoVID19 is fake, what caused these excess deaths (in some cases, up to 100%)?

On 7th April we will be having the third and final ODI match between South Africa and Pakistan. The series is tied 1-1 right now and the winner of this match will take the trophy. However, it will be difficult to analyze who is having the momentum right now. Fakhar Zaman and the lower order batsmen put up such a strong fight towards the end, and therefore I would assume that there is a slight edge for Pakistan.

As of now, the altcoins can be broadly divided into two categories. The first category consists of established altcoins such as Ethereum, Cardano, Binance Coin, Cardano, Litecoin and Chainlink. These coins comprise up to 80% of the altcoin market cap. On the other hand, we have thousands of smaller altcoins (many of them can be classified as shitcoins) which comprise less than 20% of the market cap. Now the question is which one is more suitable for investment. The first category of coins do have good future potential, but they looks overpriced. The second category is not overpriced, but they include a lot of scam projects.

Same here as well. When I first made my investment with cryptocurrency in 2012, I was very enthusiastic about it and talked to almost all of my friends and relatives about cryptocurrency (back then no one really thought that BTC would increase by 10,000 times in a decade, and most of the users were ideologically driven). The first bull run occurred in December 2013. But it hardly made any change in the situation. My friends were mostly indifferent. However after the 2017 bull run, the situation changed and some of them started showing interest. But the huge crash in 2018 destroyed everything. But this time it is different. Almost half of my friends are showing strong interest in cryptocurrency, and the major difference is that these people have got themselves educated about cryptocurrency. They understand that cryptocurrency can be used as a tool to protect their assets from inflation. 

This is just a sign of things to come. This decade (2021-30) belongs to cryptocurrency, and already we are witnessing huge strides made by Bitcoin as far as mainstream adoption is concerned. First it was paypal wich accepted Bitcoin in its platform. Then Tesla came up with the idea of a multi-billion USD investment in Bitcoin, followed by accepting it as a mode of payment for the purchase of its EVs. Now Mastercard is bringing cryptocurrency in to it's network. It is possible to make payment with BTC on Visa. In short, the revolution has started and all you need to do is to hold on to your coins for some more time.

Well.. this is what Satoshi said about the lost coins:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198.0


So I would assume that I made a donation to everyone else, for the greater good. See, I made my contribution to popularize the idea of cryptocurrency. So probably it's not all bad, and I need to stop regretting about it  .

I am not saying that PayPal is openly challenging the authorities. They will never do that. But the timing was significant. Cryptocurrency is facing increasing opposition from the lawmakers. Just recently two of the most authoritarian figures from the Socialist camp (Elizabeth Warren and Janet Yellen) had their public meltdown against Bitcoin. So each and every step taken by listed companies such as PayPal sends a strong message to these politicians. If the authorities were opposed to the plans by FaceBook, how can they be comfortable with the plans from PayPal?

Well.... I don't know whether it is as simple as that (the foreign companies can get away by making a Russian version of the software). But the truth is that cold war is far from over and after a brief lull, it has re-emerged as a fill-blown proxy war between the West (US and it's NATO allies) on the one side and the East (Russia, China and their allies such as DPRK and Vietnam) on the other side. I won't be surprised if the situation results in military confrontation, similar to what happened in Donbass.

Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman have been the backbone of Pakistani top order for some time. Their main issue is with the middle order. The problem persist in this department and they lost the second match because the middle order batsmen could not give support to Fakhar Zaman. Players such as Danish Aziz and Shadab Khan needs to show some more patience. They should stay in the crease for some time and try to rotate the strike.

Joachim Löw took a lot of blame for the defeat against North Macedonia (which I believe was unfair). The fact is that the German players have been in very poor form for some time now. This is the same team that got thrashed by Spain 0-6 in November 2020 (which was incidentally Germany's worst defeat since 1931). The recent matches just confirm that Germany hasn't recovered as of yet.

Very unprofessional. A part of his salary comes from the sponsorship by SNJ 10000. As long as CSK is in a sponsorship deal with them, all the players are obliged to wear the logo. Those who have a problem with it should stay out of IPL. These guys need to treat IPL like a sports event and there is no need to mix religion here. If the BCCI allow this, then the next demand would be even more ridiculous.

Don't know much about the others, but it now looks confirmed that Chadwick Boseman will be selected as the best actor. I don't have any issues with  posthumous nominations for Oscar, but I believe that the rules should be same for everyone. Heath Ledger never got the nomination, despite the fact that he deserved it in 2009. He was instead given the "best supporting actor" award.

New Zealand is an isolated island nation and that is how they managed to avoid major damage from COVID 19 (same can be said about other pacific islands and countries such as Sri Lanka and Taiwan).

Israel and UK are the countries that managed to defeat COVID 19 through vaccination (they opted for the highly effective Pfizer and Moderna vaccines).

And at the same time, there are a few countries that opted for the less-effective Chinese vaccine and are witnessing hardly any positive impact from the vaccination program (Chile, Serbia, Hungary.etc).