Even you mentioned the high gas fees of Ethereum and the entire investors are waiting to see a solution for the scaling issues they are trying to sort for over an year. They are changing their consensus algorithm and has created a hype in that aspect but how long it will take for them to sort the scaling issues is still a debate. Unless we see a clarity on that aspect i would not advice anyone to invest when the price is already rallying at an all time high.

Projects started on the Ethereum network are migrating to alternative networks because they are finding it hard to convince the investors who invested in their projects to carry on with Ethereum network and you need to take all these situations into consideration while investing in it.

To be frank, not much of an expectation right now as the market depends upon how the whales who accumulated billions worth of coins are planning to do with their investment and i really think they have a control over the market. As an investor i would like to see the market moving higher but i am sure these institutional investors will book their profit whenever the market tries to move higher and hence it is a tricky situation.

Getting Cricket included in the Olympics is just a step to make the sport popular in a country or on a global scale like Football. If an athlete has to dedicate his life into a sport incentives is a major factor. Hence even if it is included as an Olympic sport, the amount of money they can make in their career can also be an important factor if you want to see elite athletes choosing the sport.

The fighters should promote themselves and make sure the audience will stay tuned to watch the fight, either to see them loose or to see them win. Paul brothers are playing the character or Mayweatger started to play the money character so that the fans would get excited to watch the fight. 

Tyron Woodley who could win the fight against Jake Paul and extend his boxing career instead he took money to get a hard shot in the face and fall face first in the canvas unconscious, what a joke. These conspiracy theories that does not make any sense .

There was a time when Floyd Mayweather was winning belts and no one really cared about watching his fights nor he was the main event. He found success after changing his moniker Pretty boy to money and started showing off his wealth leaving Bob Arum and creating his own promotion changed his fortunes.

The same can be said about Colby Covington, he was the nicest person in the world and no one really cared whether he is fighting or not and he was supposed to be cut from the UFC even though he was winning after the Demian Maia fight in Brazil, but he cut a promo changing his attitude and personality in Brazil and he became the most hated person in MMA but he kept his job and started earning more money. Sometimes you need to do things as an entertainer to make money. Some do it in a subtle way, while some go the extreme route.

May be that is the reason Pakistan needs to play Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and they can tour West Indies because we can see competitive matches. They is no way Pakistan are going to tour England Australia or South Africa and expect any competition  .
 
If every Cricket board and franchise could attract huge advertisement, let them make the money they aspire and if that can be used to improve cricket so be it.

Yes Quinton de Kock retired only from the longer format, the fact is that South Africa did not play much Test Cricket in the past 3 years and yet he thinks that the work load is too much and he is not yet 30 years and over all the Test team is not in a good position either as the pressure to perform is upon him as well since they do not have solid players in the longer format.

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Even with a century from Devon Conway New Zealand is not in a great position as they lost 5 wickets and Bangladesh bowled really well in these conditions which was a surprise for me. If the Bangladesh batsman can perform in these pitches then it will be an interesting series, if not another white wash from New Zealand.

If you are looking to invest, my advice would be to wait for a correction before leaping in the market, right now the market is soaring at an all time high valuation and i would not advice anyone to invest now. Wait for the market direction to have a clarity on taking any decision. When it comes to ETH, the developers are struggling to find a solution to sort their scaling issues and until that is sorted, even their future is at risk as more projects are moving to alternative networks.

The T20 World Cup was a huge surprise as the favorites before the tournament did not reach the next round and no one expected Australia to win the tournament and yet they won the cup.

My favorite series were the Indian tour of Australia and after getting humiliated in the first match and even with the absence of Virat Kohli, India managed to win the series with a young team and no one expected that to happen and the Gabba fortress was history and then winning against England in England and the first match against South Africa.

In the core level Matic has its recognition as an option to migrate because of the higher ETH transaction fees and many projects are migrating to the Polygon network but we are not seeing the price boom like we wanted for a solid project with much lower fees comparing the insane $4k valuation of useless ETH, Polygon should be priced much higher that what it is valued and i am sure it will catch up.

England was not having the best Test team for a long time and now their bowlers failed to perform like they used to do in the past especially James Anderson and Stuart Broad did not make any impact in this series and their batsman was a complete failure and postponing the series will not change anything unless they find new players.

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Another surprising news from South Africa is the surprise retirement of Quinton de Kock and with South Africa struggling to find quality players this untimely retirement is another headache for them.

Eagle FC is owned by the greatest fighter i have seen in MMA Khabib Nurmagomedov and he already launched his own NFT and hence he is known to embrace the cryptocurrency space as he always promotes them in his social media page and it is not a big surprise that Kevin Lee is getting his payment in BTCitcoin because Khabib Nurmagomedov as the owner is open to innovation even though he has a strict moral code as a deeply religious person, which is really great. 

Like any other new technology, we will see new projects popping up left and right especially in the cryptocurrency space. So it is not a big surprise that all the new projects are related to NFT and the metaverse and for most part it can be called a bubble if there is no use case and some of the projects are still using the ETH network and users are tired of spending huge fees.

In the end a few projects will survive the test of time while others will fade off eventually like we always see in the market.

You cannot expect the Winter Olympics to be as big as the Summer Olympics, personally i am not a big fan of the winter Olympics even though i am die hard fan of the Summer Olympics who watches almost all events that interest me on a daily basis and because majority of the sporting events in the Winter Olympics are not familiar to me i am yet to watch a single event till live.

I will be following this thread, as i have no idea about the athletes participating and the events.

I was never in doubt about the chances of India in the tour against South Africa as they are not having a really strong batting line up like we used to see in the past and the win depends upon how the Indian batsman is able to perform in wickets like these and if they score a decent total then India has the bowlers to trouble any team in the world.

I am not expecting a white wash, but it is good to see that India is breaking all the fortress, first Gabba and now Centurion which is a huge feat and if the fast bowlers are healthy and weather will not intervene we will see a really competitive series.

MMA math will not work like that, if Francis Ngannou was defeated by Derrick Lewis and Derrick Lewis getting defeated by Ciryl Gane then it does not mean that Ciryl Gane will defeat Francis Ngannou. We know how Francis Ngannou and Derrick Lewis was the most boring fight in heavy weight history with the lowest number of strikes even attempted, it was a total stale mate and  Francis Ngannou was coming after a defeat and he was frozen during the fight .

Francis Ngannou and Ciryl Gane have a history where they were training partners and his old coaches are still training Ciryl Gane and the UFC can create a good hype to promote the fight. It is one of the most anticipated fights and if Francis Ngannou could connect one punch, he could sleep anyone and the game plan of Ciryl Gane will be the interesting aspect on how he will manage to over come that and fight to his strength.

This is the first time i am hearing about these new projects and i am not sure how you heard about them, some of them are funny ones and going along with the flow because i am not sure what is digital lifestyle by Lukso, so they are creating digital clothes and store them in wallets . All the catchphrases of DeFi, metaverse are included in these projects but i am yet to fully understand the feasibility of them as a real one rather than having tokens for pump and dump.

This i a new level of humiliation and i am expecting major changes in the team as this team sucks in the longer format, when i woke up today, i logged into my subscription app to watch the match live and i could not see them and i thought weather has stopped play and then when i saw one the notifications i came to know that England is all out for double digits .

Pakistan against BCCI  , why you think so because it was a under 19 India Pakistan match . So you think that a loss in a T20 match will weaken the Indian team and what do you think about the current tour of South Africa, will they show the same weakness in Test matches or just in T20 and ODI  .

If Pakistan can tour England, Australia and South Africa and starts winning series then we can say that they started to change drastically, other than that how can you compare both the teams .

It was a good toss to win and usually Virat Kohli does not have the luck whenever he tosses the coin and tomorrow is crucial as the pitch will be a bit faster than today and a couple of wickets and the tail will be exposed. KL Rahul played an incredible innings and Rahane is still in the create hope he too can convert it to a big century.

The only disappointment was Pujara going for a golden duck, the rest of the players had luck as i have seen many inside edge not brushing with the stumps and a good day overall .

Ironically Shiba Inu is inspired by the success of Dogecoin and that is mainly due to one person pumping the coin with his tweets, if not for Elon Musk we might not see this much meme coins popping up and i am sure he is making a point that money comes out of thin air in the cryptocurrency space and that is how i interpret the moves by Elon, so that the government will notice these moves and comes out with a frame work.