They had the option to protest peacefully. If they don't like the president, or think that he is too authoritarian, then what prevents these people from voting him out. But in order to do that they need to wait until the next presidential elections. Burning down ATMs and other private/public property is not going to do the trick. And I am not surprised at the opposition. The communists once destroyed computers, claiming that they would take away jobs. That was three decades ago. Now the children of these same communist leaders are working in IT firms.

This one just came at the right time. So they are getting an increment from ₹35,000 per day to ₹60,000 (although limited to players who have represented the state in more than 40 matches). The BCCI should focus more on the domestic cricket. The quality is noway near the competitions in England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa or West Indies. Right now a huge gap exists in the quality between the IPL and domestic cricket. One good initiative would be to introduce franchise system with the domestic teams as well.

That still doesn't solve the issue of affordability. The Tesla Model S costs around $100,000. This is around 3 times the price of a similar automobile which runs on gasoline. Personally I don't afford paying up to 50% more for an EV. But 200%? That doesn't make any sense for me. They need to reduce the cost and make the vehicles more affordable. And for that, they need to dump the current Lithium-Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminium batteries and move towards a battery technology that uses less expensive metals. I am afraid that it may not happen anytime soon.

The small scale fluctuations that we witnessed so far in 2021 resulted from attempts to manipulate the market by celebrities such as Elon Musk and organized cartels. But as we can see, the impact was not maintained for the long term. Personally I believe that the time is ripe for Bitcoin, to get started with another bull run. The demand is still there.. and there are a lot of buyers who are waiting for power prices to accumulate BTC. The entry of institutions have changed the scenario completely. With every passing year, people are losing their faith in fiat currency. Ordinary people are losing their wealth at a rapid pace as a result of inflation. Sooner or later, there will be a big move towards assets that are protected against inflation.

^^^^ Not accurate.

According to ESPN Cricinfo, ECB cancelled the tour as a result of "Covid bubble fatigue". Security reasons are not mentioned in the statement from the ECB. For the PCB this is very disappointing. And Ramiz Raja (PCB chairman) has reacted very strongly to the cancellation, pointing out that since the start of the pandemic Pakistan has toured England two times, and New Zealand/West Indies once each. He claims that the "western bloc" is united in its stance against Pakistan. Anyway, good to see that he's not blaming the BCCI now. 

Back in Sri Lanka, it was Krunal Pandya who breached the bubble and infected others in the camp. If it was some other player, then the BCCI would have taken stringent action. But the Pandya sisters are like close confidents of captain Kohli and any punishment meted out them will result in Jay Shah getting a kick in his rear side from Kohli. The same was the case with the IPL as well. It was the KKR franchise which was responsible for the bubble breach then. They are among the "heavyweight" franchises, so obviously no action was taken.

I am not an Indian citizen, but it is a fact that Pakistan is facing issues for many decades now. Blaming India will not resolve the issue. The user whom you quoted was wrong. Pakistan was never blacklisted by the FATF. However, FATF is currently investigating them for links to banned entities.

https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/will-pakistan-come-off-the-fatf-grey-list/

Currently they are on the "greylist".

The real threat for the PCB is that other countries would follow the example of CNZ (ECB, CA.etc) and refuse to tour Pakistan. That will result in huge losses to the PCB. Already they are in bad financial state due to the pandemic.

It is a tri-series between Oman, USA and Nepal. Only Nepal is having native players and the other two don't have any nationals in their cricket squad (their playing XIs are entirely made up of Pakistani and Indian citizens). What is the point in having international teams like this? Take the case of Oman players for example. I am 100% sure that they don't have any loyalty towards Oman. They themselves would be supporting their home country when they play for Oman. The tragedy here is that teams with native players such as Nepal and Kenya get sidelined by these teams.

Well.. Zimbabwe is supposed to perform better. Aren't they? As a full member of the ICC, they receive funds worth $12 million per year, compared to less than $1 million received by the Scottish cricket board. And despite that, all of the matches were competitive. I personally believe that Zimbabwe's allocaiton should be reduced by 80% and the remainder should be distributed among the other boards. I doesn't benefit anyone. Most of the funds given to Zimbabwe get stolen by by the corrupt officials and politicians.

Right now, the cryptocurrency market is having a market capitalization of less than $2 trillion. On the other hand the market cap of stock markets just within the United States stands at >$50 trillion. And the increase in market cap of these stock exchanges this year is higher than the total market cap of the cryptocurrency market. So obviously the number of millionaires (and billionaires) created by cryptocurrency is much smaller than the same number created by the stock rally this year. In short, your argument is only partially true.

As things stand now, Malta and Panama are much more likely than Paraguay to take that step. But I agree that the impact will be visible only by 2022 (not sure whether it will happen in Q1 2022). The impact from PayPal adoption took almost 6-7 months to translate to an increase in the exchange rates. Before that, the impact from the block reward halving also took roughly that much time. Anyway, even if a new ATH is achieved in 2022, I am not sure whether I will sell any of my coins. My targets are much higher. 

You don't need 7 sources, if one works well for you. I have been doing freelancing since 2004. I have tried more than a dozen methods - blog advertising, forum posting, YouTube video creation, affiliate marketing.etc. But since 2013, my only source of passive income has been signature campaigns in this forum. The payout is not very high, but I have a full-time job and therefore can't work additionally for more than 1-2 hours a day. So I am happy with whatever I am getting from this method.

Those who are dealing with tokens, that are using the ERC-20 platform, there is no alternative available. I am tired of hearing from noobs who complain that the transaction fee of moving their tokens to an exchange is higher than the net worth of their token holdings. For such cases, there is no solution available right now. Newer projects are increasingly shifting to alternate chains such as BSC and TRC-20. But those who are dealing with existing projects have to deal with ERC-20 and it's sky high fees.

Not like that... In a democratic country, people have the right to protest against decisions taken by the government (but peacefully). And for those who are saying that the government should have conducted a referendum - back in 2001, when the government decided to make US Dollar as the legal tender, there was no referendum being done. No one complained about it back then. So why anyone should be having a problem now? And back then, it was replacement of Salvadoran Colon by the United States Dollar. This time it is not replacement, but the addition of another option.

It's not all black and white. I suspect that one reason for such "motivation" may be a desire to reduce the tax bill. Here the kids are earning the revenue and obviously their tax slab and the applicable tax rate may be much lower when compared to that of the parents. Else, do you really think that these kids have the means to do such heavy investments, even before their college? The capital has to come from somewhere.. even if they claim that they have taken loans, then someone (adult) should provide guarantee to that loan.

Well.. who knows for sure? I have been in to cryptocurrency for almost a decade and I still don't understand it completely. Sometimes shitcoins like Doge go up and manage to find a place in top-5 list. And at the same time, promising projects like Stellar Lumens, Monero and Deep Onion fail to get attention from the investors. There is no logic with the market sometimes. And I won't be too surprised if the dead coins become valuable at some time in the future. But in my case, it will be extremely difficult to recover them. I stored most of them in exchange wallets, and lost these coins when the exchanges delisted them. And in most cases, the exchanges also no longer exist.

When the news first came out regarding PayPal integrating Bitcoin to their platform, I could see a great number of negative posts in this forum. But one year has passed, and the overall impact has been positive. The move turned out to be mutually beneficial for both the sides. PayPal has witnessed a growth in net revenues, and a lot of people who were earlier to purchase cryptocurrencies from mainstream exchanges opted to do that using PayPal. In short, PayPal has made cryptocurrencies more accessible to the ordinary (especially less tech savvy) people.

^^^^ Cryptocurrency can be misused for illegal purposes, such as payment of bribes and ransom. Given the high levels of corruption that is prevalent in countries such as Nigeria, I am afraid that in the near future we are going to hear about it much more frequently. The politicians will be the first group to use cryptocurrency for such purposes. And these politicians will be the first ones to complaint that they need stricter regulations on cryptocurrency, because it is being misused (after they move their funds to offshore tax havens).

This is one of the reasons why I don't get too involved nowadays. No matter how much you educate them, if the price drops all of a sudden, or in case the coins get stolen, these guys are going to blame you. What the ordinary investor want is high returns with zero risk. But there is no such thing. You can opt for low risk assets, but then the returns will be low (US treasury bonds have interest rate of 1.3% per year). On the other hand, if you opt for high risk assets, then there is a chance that you will get good returns. But you should be open to the probability of your asset losing 50% of its value in a year.

With the original strain, it was OK to remain unvaccinated. It had a mortality rate of around 0.1% for those who are below 50 years of age (those without comorbidities). But the delta and other strains have changed the situation. The mortality rate for the elderly remains the same as it was before. But for younger people, it has increased by 50x to 100x, from 0.1% to somewhere between 5% to 10% (these numbers are based on my study on the data from India). So I would request everyone, irrespective of their age to get vaccinated.