War is not the solution. A free and fair election should do the trick.

I am not sure about the current approval level of Maduro, but there is a large segment of the population which remains loyal to him. In case the Americans go ahead with a military invasion, then his support base will grow and many millions will revolt against the invaders.

Till now, Juan Guaidó is unable to create a sizeable militia to fight against Maduro. He wants the Americans to do the dirty work for him. That's not going to work. If he has the popular support, then he can easily overthrow Maduro from power (just like what happened in countries such as Libya). If he is not capable of that, then I suspect that his support levels are quite low.

I think that the best option would be to classify it as a gift, and pay regular income tax on that amount. I am saying this because Bitcoin is not recognized as a currency in most of the world nations, and therefore you can't say that you received an "income". A gift can be in the form of either an asset or a currency. Just my 2 cents... if you are still confused, then please consult a CA.

If a country bans Bitcoin, it can be interpreted in many different ways. A few examples are:

1. Bitcoin can't be used as a legal tender: In countries such as India, Bitcoin can't be used as a form of payment. But that doesn't mean that the possession of Bitcoin and trading of Bitcoin to fiat is illegal.

2. Bitcoin trading is illegal: In countries such as Bangladesh, you are banned from trading your BTC to fiat. But the possession of BTC as such is not a punishable offense.

3. Possession of Bitcoin is illegal: I don't think any country is having such a rule as of now. It can't be implemented anyway.

What I wanted to say is that the laws should be clear.

You are talking about the Adab exchange, right? I would be more cautious, as the user who had posted the ANN and bounty threads is having red-trust. Also, I checked their bounty thread and there is no requirement for KYC there. If SOME people think that it is a scam, then study the allegations carefully before sending your scanned copy of the passport to them.

EDIT: I think that the Adab project is indeed a scam.

Their first bounty campaign ran for almost one year and became dead last month. Obviously, no one received any reward. The thread is here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4722627.0

The second bounty campaign is currently running:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5133048.0

Almost always, the confiscated coins are auctioned off by the authorities. So you can't count it among the possible reasons for getting a deflationary impact. Regarding the second part, I guess most of the big holders will be having some mechanism to pass on the private keys, in case something happens to them. Exceptions would be rare. 

Tax evasion is a big issue in India, and only around 3% of the population pay income tax. So effectively this 3% of the population is subsidizing the remaining 97%. The tax rates are so high that anyone who is capable of evading taxes go for it at the first opportunity available. And reports indicate that Bitcoin is one of the tools being used by the tax evaders in India. So not very surprising that the government is adopting such a hostile stance towards Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Craig S Wright is a compulsive liar and attention seeker and the best thing for us would be to ignore him. But at the same time, this court order can't be implemented. If Craig Wright claims that he doesn't own a particular address, then there is no way that he can be linked to that address. A Bitcoin address is not like a bank account. It is not linked by any ID document or residential information.

Sri Lanka is a nation of 25 million people and you can't expect the government to offer police protection to every religious institution. Yes.. the government was warned. But in a very vague way. There was no mention about the targets or the time of the attack. Moreover, no one expected these attacks to be in such a massive scale. Sri Lanka has no previous history of Islamic extremists blowing up at crowded places.

The top-10 includes coins such as Ripple (XRP) and EOS, which looks overpriced. Also, USDT ranks among the top-10 and it is not suitable for investment purposes. At the same time, some of the most promising coins fall outside this top-10 list. A few that comes to my mind right now are Monero (XMR), Cosmos, NEO, NEM, ZCash, Qtum and 0x.

If you want to make investments, then make them fast. I am having a gut feeling that a major bull run is about to start. So make up your mind and purchase the coins of your choice without any further delay.

Although I don't like to sell my coins when the market is down, sometimes I am forced to do it. As of now, almost 70% of my total wealth is in the form of crypto. So in order to minimize the risk, I took a decision back in 2017, to diversify my assets. I am converting 1% of my coins to fiat every month and I am doing this for the past one and half years irrespective of the exchange rates.

Bitcoin was invented in order to eradicate the middlemen and intermediaries like the banks. The very idea of crypto-banks go against this principle. First we need to ask ourselves whether we need banks to store crypto or not. IMO, there is no need for a bank to store the coins or to transact them. Anyway.. the banks also may not be interested in a decentralized currency, which they can't manipulate.

There are a number of promising crypto-coins out there and you can invest in any of them. I can name a few such as Litecoin, EOS, NEO, XRP, XLM, ETH, BCH, XMR, ADA, TRON, Dash, IOTA, Cosmos, NEM, Zcash.etc. These coins have something unique about them, and if things work out then you can get good returns within the next 2-3 years.

But at the same time, we need to remember that Bitcoin is the original crypto-currency which was invented by Satoshi. The price of all the other cryptos are dependent on BTC. So I would advise you to keep at least 50% of your crypto wealth in the form of BTC.

I have been collecting crypto-currency for the past 7 years and my confidence with cryptos have been increasing with every passing year. I am witnessing a lot of positive changes in the crypto market. The users are more serious about their investments and they no longer do panic selling or chase worthless altcoins. The market continues to evolve and the users have also become more innovative and knowledgeable.

This is actually a very good suggestion. But still I believe that 10% of the total income is a bit high. If alcohol, sports.etc is included, then it can be reasonable. But it will be quite hard to keep this 10% target. Chasing the losses is a habit which is very difficult to get away. I have seen even the most experienced gamblers doing it.

OK. The market condition may be getting better. But that doesn't mean that all of your altcoins are going to go up. Most of them will go up, but the coins with weak basics will see a reduction in the trading volumes and eventually they will just become dormant. The trick is to get rid of such coins, before they become completely worthless.

In case you manages to hit the jackpot, then anyway you need to go for the KYC process. While filing your tax returns, you need to give details of your winnings. I wouldn't be having a problem with that. But then, if you ask me to submit my KYC documents for withdrawing $10 from the online casino, then I will just refuse it plain and simple.

I would say that all the major religions have evolved (perhaps with the exception of Islam). But you can still find sections of these religions which have resisted evolution. To give examples, there are the Amish and the FLDS among the Christians, Haredis among the Jews and groups like Jehova's witnesses that avoid modern medicine.

Less than two hours to go for the Ajax vs Tottenham match. I just checked an online poll in ESPN website and to my surprise 61% are favoring Ajax to win this match. I checked some polls in Twitter as well and all of them are having Ajax on top. On the other hand, the match between Barca and Liverpool is predicted to be a nailbiter, with 51% favoring LFC and 49% favoring Barca.

You are talking about the fight against Rocky Fielding? Yes... his performance was good during that match. But then Rocky Fielding is not a legend, unlike boxers such as Gennady Golovkin and Amir Khan. But for Canelo, it gives him a lot of confidence. His team might say that Canelo won his last fight by KO, while Jacobs won his last (vs Derevianchenko) by SD.

ROFL... do you really think that the SEC will be worried about bounty hunters not getting their rewards? That's not the case. Unless some Wall street whale losses at least a few million USD in one of those scam ICOs, the SEC is not going to do anything. And regarding the sig campaigns, they can always say that no monetary losses resulted from the scam.