The problem with P2P is that you will be flooded with scammers, at least during the initial phases. When I was trading in Localbitcoins during my earlier days, I faced a lot of issues due to this. It takes a few months for a vendor to build up a good feedback score and earn a good reputation. During this time, a lot of people are going to get conned by the scammers. And the fact that cryptocurrency is in a grey area in Nigeria will make matters more complicated.

Google and Facebook are banned in China, as the local competitors (Baidu and WeChat) have a complete monopoly. As far as I know, Amazon isn't blocked in China, but they geo-restricts users from that country. So here you are right. But China remains one of the largest markets for Apple (and one of the fastest growing markets as well). And it won't be fair to ask Apple to pay taxes in US, for their revenues in China. And let's not forget that most of the components for the manufacturing of iPhone, iPad.etc comes from the Chinese manufacturing units. 

Samson is highly inconsistent. Although his fans would disagree with me, I think he has got enough chances at least when compared to someone like Devdutt Padikkal or Ishan Kishan. Now there is too much competition for the slot of wicketkeeper batsman and Samson has so far wasted whatever opportunity that was given to him. A lot will depend on how he performs during the remainder of the IPL.

So guys, what are the predictions for Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals? One of them is in exceptional form, and currently is placed at no.2 in the points table. While the other is also placed at no.2, but from the bottom. Everything has clicked for the RCB, but for RR the individual performances hasn't translated in to points. I have gone with RCB for today's match, as RR seems to be unable to make up for the absence of Archer and Stokes.

If some of Satoshi's estimated BTC980,000 coins show any sort of movement, then we can expect a bloodbath in the market. Despite the multi-billion USD daily trade volumes, I don't think that the market has enough liquidity to deal with an additional inflow of more than BTC10,000 in one day. As we have seen during the past few weeks, whenever a whale dumps a few thousand coins, the prices remain suppressed for many days. What that is the case, you can imagine how the market will react to the possibility of close to a million coins being dumped.

They are wrong. There are more than 250 countries and autonomous territories in the world and there is zero chance that all of them would crackdown on Bitcoin mining simultaneously. OK.. let's take the unlikely scenario of that happening. But that doesn't mean that all of the miners would just shut down their shop and quit. There will be some who would continue mining cryptocurrency, albeit anonymously. I don't think that the governments have the resources to track down and prosecute small scale miners.

As mentioned in one of the previous posts, the mining difficulty gets adjusted in every two weeks. Right now, a huge backlog is created because on average 3 or 4 blocks are being mined per hour instead of the average 6. Once the mining difficulty gets adjusted, the number of blocks mined per hour will once again increase to 6 per hour and hopefully most of this backlog will be cleared. But it will take some time, because the Mempool size stands at 265.4 MB right now.

McAfee's brain was not damaged. He promoted all those scams, because he earned big $$$ from them. Once he stated that he charges $105,000 for a single tweet to promote a cryptocurrency project. Now this is something that intelligent criminals would do. You don't expect that from a brain damaged person. The estimate by SEC is that McAfee made $23 million in total, but I think that the real amount may be much higher.

Agreed. None of the players listed above have performed in a consistent manner. Russell was supposed to be their star performer, but apart from his 5-wicket haul, he was out of form in the previous matches. In particular I am concerned about Dinesh Karthik. He has only made 72 runs from 4 matches. During the last season also, he didn't scored too many runs. I would add Eoin Morgan to the list as well. So far he has scored 45 runs from 4 matches.

^^^ Their scoring rate seems to have accelerated after Liton Das came to bat. They have crossed 450, and may be looking to add another 100-150 runs. That would mean that the declaration won't come before the end of the day's play (because only 31 overs are remaining). If they continue with the current rate, then they will end up at 550-560. Ideally, they should be looking at 600 plus. All that said, quite an impressive performance from Bangladesh considering the fact that star players such as Shakib and Mustafizur are not part of the team due to IPL commitments.

IMO, they need both. Hugo Chavez was so successful because his budget was boosted by high crude oil prices. It allowed him to start generous welfare schemes and large infrastructural projects. And when Maduro became the president, the crude oil prices dropped and he could not continue with these same schemes. I really doubt whether Chavez would have been successful, had the oil prices crashed during his term.

I am from India, and even here millions of individuals are dependent on cryptocurrency for their major source of revenue, or passive income. A few months back the government proposed a blanket ban on cryptocurrency, but they were forced to put the proposal on hold due to massive outcry from the users. I just hope that in Bangladesh also the government will come to their senses and will deal with cryptocurrency in a more productive and mutually beneficial manner.

^^^^ I agree with the previous posts, but why do Venezuela needs to import basic commodities such as sugar? Why can't they produce all this within their country? I have heard that Brazil is one of the top producers of sugar, so I guess the climatic conditions in Venezuela will also be favorable for sugar production. I just took one example, but I would like to know the reason why Venezuela imports most of the commodities from abroad.

Yes.. that was a relatively simple catch. Rana dropped it, and it cost KKR 6 runs. If that catch was not dropped, then the target would have been 14 from the last over (13 for a tie). Also, the team coordination was very poor among the KKR batsmen. Both Varun Chakravarthy and Prasidh Krishna knew that they need to give strike to Cummins. But they were very slow and complacent while running. KKR should blame themselves for the loss. 

I don't know what the Bangladesh batsmen are thinking. So far in this session, they have scored just 45 runs in 18 overs (which amounts to just 2.5 runs per over). They have 8 wickets in hand, and I would have expected them to score quickly and declare before the start if third session. Seems like the Bangladesh captain would like to bat for entire day today. For Sri Lanka, no quick wickets in the opening session. The morale seems to be very low.

It was not just Cummins, Russel also made some big hits (he made 54 from just 22 balls, which included 6 sixes). Ironically these two players went for a lot of runs when they were bowling, so it was like a sweet revenge for them. Cummins went for 58 from his 4 (his most expensive spell in T20?) and Russell went for 27 of his two overs. It was a bloodbath for the bowlers. From the CSK side, Sam Curran went for 58 from his 4, and Shardul went for 48 from three.

If they bat sensibly, then it may be possible to add another 250 runs in 60 overs. So they can declare by tea, and then have 30 overs to bowl tomorrow. But given the inconsistent nature of the Bangladesh team, I would restrain from giving any overly optimistic scenarios. Ideally they should reach 500-550 before the declaration tomorrow. The Lankan bowlers looks demoralized.. but still they can come back in to the game if they are able to take a few quick wickets tomorrow.

I am not at all surprised by the poor form from Punjab. They are overdependent on a few players for both batting (KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal) and bowling (Mohammed Shami). The remaining players are not very experienced and it was evident today. The problem is that whenever the top order fails, there is no one in the middle order, who has the capability to build a partnership and get them to a decent total. Nicholas Pooran was in such terrific form during last season, but so far he has failed to score runs this year. He had 3 ducks from 4 innings. 

CSK has got a great start to this season, when compared to the disaster they had last time during the initial phases. Suresh Raina's inclusion made a huge difference this time. Also, some of the younger players are performing really well. And the replacement of Kedar Jadhav by Moeen Ali has worked as well. Right now the only player who has yet to reach his peak form within the CSK lineup seems to be Shardul Thakur.

LOL... I guess $3 would be far down the queue.. Because even the low priority transaction is at $12.51 (according to the website that you have quoted). And from what I can see, the Mempool size for transactions >120 Sat/Byte is 8.1 MB. For >100 Sat/Byte, it is close to 20 MB. If your fee is lower than this, then the chances of getting a confirmation by today or tomorrow is close to zero. If it is that much urgent, then you can try accelerating your transaction. But be ready to dish out another $50 or so for this service.