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<h3><span><strong>WHAT IS CRYPTOCURRENCY?</strong></span><p>It is a digital token with which you can buy goods and services or trade for profit, using a shared online ledger with strong cryptography to secure online transactions</p><h3><span><strong>CAN ONE BUY GOODS WITH IT?</strong></span></h3></p><p>Crypto is recognised as legal tender only in two countries—El Salvador and Cuba. The rest of the world, including India, only allows trading in cryptocurrency.</p><h3><span><strong>WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY?</strong></span></h3></p><p>The underlying technology of crypto, blockchain is a decentralised, distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-topeer network</p><h3><span><strong>HOW SECURE IS A BLOCKCHAIN?</strong></span></h3></p><p>Each &lsquo;block&rsquo; in a blockchain contains data of that particular transaction and the previous transaction. If someone attempts to break into the blockchain or manipulate a transaction, all subsequent transactions will be rendered invalid. The crypto lobby cites this attribute to claim that breaking into the crypto space is far tougher than in digital banking.</p><div class="itemcenter"><amp-iframe height="62" title="" width="320" sandbox="allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" allowfullscreen src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014%5Cu0026native%3D1" class="mrBt15 preferred-source-banner"> </amp-iframe></div><h3><span><strong>WHAT ELSE CAN BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY BE USED FOR?</strong></span></h3></p><p>Blockchain applications include secure sharing of medical data, tracking music royalties, making cross-border payments, enabling real-time IoT (Internet of Things) operating systems, anti-money laundering tracking system, supply chain and logistics monitoring</p><h3><span><strong>WHERE DOES THE WORLD STAND ON CRYPTO?</strong></span></h3></p><p>El Salvador and Cuba are the only ones to pass legislation to recognise Bitcoin as legal tender. The US, Canada and the UK allow trade in Bitcoin but Russia and China do not. China, in fact, imposed a blanket ban on all crypto transactions earlier this year.</p><h3><span><strong>WHAT IS INDIA DOING TO REGULATE CRYPTOCURRENCY?</strong></span></h3><ul>
	<li>In 2018, the RBI had imposed a ban on trading in cryptocurrencies, which a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court overturned in March 2020</li>
	<li>PM Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on November 13, which flagged &ldquo;misleading&rdquo;, &ldquo;over-promising&rdquo; and &ldquo;non-transparent&rdquo; advertising on cryptocurrency and why &ldquo;unregulated crypto markets cannot be allowed to become avenues for money laundering and terror financing&rdquo;.</li>
	<li>RBI governor Shaktikanta Das says that cryptocurrencies pose a threat to the &ldquo;macroeconomic and financial stability&rdquo; of the country</li>
	<li>The government may present a bill in the upcoming winter session. Crypto may be barred as legal tender but allowed as an asset class, subject to regulation, perhaps by SEBI</li>
</ul><h3><strong><span>HOW DOES ONE TRADE IN CRYPTO?</span></strong></h3></p><p>Crypto can be bought or sold on the 40-odd crypto exchanges, including Coinbase, Binance, CoinDCX, WazirX and CoinSwitch Kuber. Experts recommend investing an amount one can afford to lose initially. Newbies are also recommended to seek the help of experts</p><h3><strong>HOW DID IT ORIGINATE?</strong></h3></p><p>The 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis in the US, the largest bankruptcy in recent times, led some to re-imagine our financial system in a new way. Hence a decentralised currency system where people could transact with one another on the internet rather than depend on central institutions such as a central bank and centralised regulators, where a handful of executives made all the decisions</p><h3><strong>WHO STARTED CRYPTOCURRENCY?</strong></h3></p><p>In 2008, a person or a group of persons, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, came out with a white paper, calling for a decentralised payment system. They called this global virtual currency Bitcoin, and registered the domain name, bitcoin.org. The idea was to have person-to-person transactions across borders, without having &ldquo;trusted intermediaries&rdquo; in between</p><h3><strong>HOW WAS THE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED?</strong></h3></p><p>The decentralised community used a protocol called blockchain, first proposed as a research project in 1991. Nakamoto and others refined it further in 2009 through crowdsourcing, for what they believed was a good social cause.</p><h3><strong>5 STEPS TO CRYPTO INVESTMENT</strong></h3></p><p>1. Identify a cryptocurrency exchange</p><p>2. Use debit cards or wire transfers to add money into a digital wallet</p><p>3. Choose from cryptos listed on the exchange</p><p>4. Choose a trading strategy: scalping (short-term, people hold the coins for a few minutes or seconds before selling), day trading (holding assets for a day), swing trading (holding the position for several days or weeks), position trading (focusing on long-term price shifts). Gains are remitted to the bank account linked to the crypto account. The same account funds the purchase of crypto</p><p>5. Store your crypto securely on a hardware or software digital wallet</p><p><em>(Source: blockchain-council.org)</em></p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Vishakha Sharma</div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 20, 2021</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></h3>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>WHAT IS CRYPTOCURRENCY?</strong></span><p>It is a digital token with which you can buy goods and services or trade for profit, using a shared online ledger with strong cryptography to secure online transactions</p><h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>CAN ONE BUY GOODS WITH IT?</strong></span></h3></p><p>Crypto is recognised as legal tender only in two countries—El Salvador and Cuba. The rest of the world, including India, only allows trading in cryptocurrency.</p><h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY?</strong></span></h3></p><p>The underlying technology of crypto, blockchain is a decentralised, distributed ledger of all transactions across a peer-topeer network</p><h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>HOW SECURE IS A BLOCKCHAIN?</strong></span></h3></p><p>Each &lsquo;block&rsquo; in a blockchain contains data of that particular transaction and the previous transaction. If someone attempts to break into the blockchain or manipulate a transaction, all subsequent transactions will be rendered invalid. The crypto lobby cites this attribute to claim that breaking into the crypto space is far tougher than in digital banking.</p><div class="itemcenter"><iframe scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="62" awidth="320" aheight="62" amplayout="fixed" src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Findiatoday%2Fbanner%2Fpreferred-source-new.html%3Fv%3D1.014" class="preferred-source-banner" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><style>.preferred-source-banner{  margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom:10px;}</style><h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>WHAT ELSE CAN BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY BE USED FOR?</strong></span></h3></p><p>Blockchain applications include secure sharing of medical data, tracking music royalties, making cross-border payments, enabling real-time IoT (Internet of Things) operating systems, anti-money laundering tracking system, supply chain and logistics monitoring</p><h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>WHERE DOES THE WORLD STAND ON CRYPTO?</strong></span></h3></p><p>El Salvador and Cuba are the only ones to pass legislation to recognise Bitcoin as legal tender. The US, Canada and the UK allow trade in Bitcoin but Russia and China do not. China, in fact, imposed a blanket ban on all crypto transactions earlier this year.</p><h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>WHAT IS INDIA DOING TO REGULATE CRYPTOCURRENCY?</strong></span></h3><ul>
	<li>In 2018, the RBI had imposed a ban on trading in cryptocurrencies, which a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court overturned in March 2020</li>
	<li>PM Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on November 13, which flagged &ldquo;misleading&rdquo;, &ldquo;over-promising&rdquo; and &ldquo;non-transparent&rdquo; advertising on cryptocurrency and why &ldquo;unregulated crypto markets cannot be allowed to become avenues for money laundering and terror financing&rdquo;.</li>
	<li>RBI governor Shaktikanta Das says that cryptocurrencies pose a threat to the &ldquo;macroeconomic and financial stability&rdquo; of the country</li>
	<li>The government may present a bill in the upcoming winter session. Crypto may be barred as legal tender but allowed as an asset class, subject to regulation, perhaps by SEBI</li>
</ul><h3><strong><span style="color:#800000;">HOW DOES ONE TRADE IN CRYPTO?</span></strong></h3></p><p>Crypto can be bought or sold on the 40-odd crypto exchanges, including Coinbase, Binance, CoinDCX, WazirX and CoinSwitch Kuber. Experts recommend investing an amount one can afford to lose initially. Newbies are also recommended to seek the help of experts</p><h3><strong>HOW DID IT ORIGINATE?</strong></h3></p><p>The 2008 Lehman Brothers crisis in the US, the largest bankruptcy in recent times, led some to re-imagine our financial system in a new way. Hence a decentralised currency system where people could transact with one another on the internet rather than depend on central institutions such as a central bank and centralised regulators, where a handful of executives made all the decisions</p><h3><strong>WHO STARTED CRYPTOCURRENCY?</strong></h3></p><p>In 2008, a person or a group of persons, under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, came out with a white paper, calling for a decentralised payment system. They called this global virtual currency Bitcoin, and registered the domain name, bitcoin.org. The idea was to have person-to-person transactions across borders, without having &ldquo;trusted intermediaries&rdquo; in between</p><h3><strong>HOW WAS THE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED?</strong></h3></p><p>The decentralised community used a protocol called blockchain, first proposed as a research project in 1991. Nakamoto and others refined it further in 2009 through crowdsourcing, for what they believed was a good social cause.</p><h3><strong>5 STEPS TO CRYPTO INVESTMENT</strong></h3></p><p>1. Identify a cryptocurrency exchange</p><p>2. Use debit cards or wire transfers to add money into a digital wallet</p><p>3. Choose from cryptos listed on the exchange</p><p>4. Choose a trading strategy: scalping (short-term, people hold the coins for a few minutes or seconds before selling), day trading (holding assets for a day), swing trading (holding the position for several days or weeks), position trading (focusing on long-term price shifts). Gains are remitted to the bank account linked to the crypto account. The same account funds the purchase of crypto</p><p>5. Store your crypto securely on a hardware or software digital wallet</p><p><em>(Source: blockchain-council.org)</em></p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Vishakha Sharma</div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">Nov 20, 2021</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div></h3>

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