DIGITAL CURRENCIES
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Explainer: What is CBDC? Why RBI is digitising the rupee
On Friday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its concept note for central bank digital currency (CBDC), announced by Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman in Parliament during her budget speech in February. The RBI clarified that the concept note aims to create awareness about CBDC and the...
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Crypto crash: Bitcoin slides below USD 23,000 mark, lowest level since December 2020
Bitcoin slides below USD 23,000 mark, diving down to lowest level since December 2020. Ashesha Adhvaryu maps the free fall in the crypto market.Crypto crash: Bitcoin slides below USD 23,000 mark, lowest level since December 2020
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Crypto markets in free fall, how should one navigate through the volatility?
Is the crypto party over? Well, going by the past few days its been a carnage for cryptocurrencies. And the swings between gains and losses have been wide. While the market cap has dwindled from $5 trillion to below $1 trillion more and more people are getting wary of the d...
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Govt clarifies on virtual digital assets: Crypto losses can’t be set off; mining cost not deductible
The worst fears of crypto traders have come true. The government has clarified that losses from one crypto can’t be adjusted against gains from another. Responding to questions by Congress MP Karti P. Chidambaram in Parliament, the Minister of State ...
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Banks raise concerns over RBI's plan to launch digital currency
Banks have raised a red flag over the Reserve Bank of India's plan to bring in a Central Bank Digital Currency. Banking stakeholders are concerned over the potential drop in deposits, disruption in the debt market, reduction in credit creation and impact on lending rates due to the reta...
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Expert View: Eswar Prasad on future of cryptocurrencies and CBDCs
Cryptocurrencies surely have opened up a dimension that Central Banks cannot undermine and that’s why Central Bank Digital Currencies may be here sooner than expected. However, one think is for sure, digital currencies are here to stay, says Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor, Corn...
ETMarkets Crypto Q&A | Ashish Singhal, Co-Founder & CEO, CoinSwitch Kuber
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Proposed bill to ban Crypto as mode of payment, liable to arrest without warrant for errants
The proposed bill in Parliament has not only sought to ban Crypto as a mode of payment in India, but according to reports, anyone found using Crypto as currency may face arrest without warrant, and may be held without bail.Proposed bill to ban Crypto as mode
Cyber security and possibility of digital frauds main concerns before rolling out CBDCs: RBI Governor
Speaking to the media post the monetary policy announcement, RBI Governor Shktikanta Das outlined main concerns before rolling out RBI’s Central Bank Digital Currency. RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Shankar also talked about the two CBDCs that RBI is wo
Expert View: Eswar Prasad on future of e-Cash and Bitcoin’s challenges
Digital cash is the way forward, and studies have proven that they change the way we save and spend. As eCash is on the rise, people still want to have the hard cash with them for challenging times, but that’s a behaviour undergoing a shift, says Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Profe
ETMarkets Cryptomeet | Crime & Crypto : Busting Myths & Setting The Record Straight
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CryptoTV by CoinSwitch Kuber | Kanishk Gaur, Founder, India Future Foundation
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RBI's digital currency rollout: The risks, rewards and the use cases
India is among a handful of nations to have launched the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Some risks, primarily cyber, are associated with CBDC, although its introduction seeks to make transactions easier. Economic Times looks at the use cases, and challenges CBDC could bring.
The Cryptocurrency Bill: Amid red-day in markets, Ashish Singhal of CSK explains why investors need not panic
Crypto coins plunged Tuesday, November 23, as fear of government ban on private coins loomed large ahead of the tabling of the ‘Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill’, during the monsoon session of the Parliament. A
Expert View: The big CBDC challenge for Central Banks
Many countries, including India, are considering issuing CBDCs or Central Bank Digital Currencies.Central banks are seeking to popularise CBDCs to make them a more acceptable electronic form of currency rather than cryptocurrencies. How has been the response of the CBDCs in countries that have go
'Govt lists ‘The cryptocurrency and Regulation of the Official Digital Currency Bill 2021' for Winter session
India is looking to bar all but a few private cryptocurrencies when it introduces a cryptocurrency and regulation bill in the winter session of the parliament. According to the legislative agenda for the winter session, the government will a
CBDC explained: What is e-Rupee and how can you use it? Here's everything you need to know
The Reserve Bank will launch the first pilot for retail digital rupee (e?-R) in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar on December 1, and later expand it to nine more cities in the initial phase. Is it UPI or Is it cryptocurrency? ET NOW's Vinnii Motiwal
Working on a phased implementation of CBDC: RBI Guv Shaktikanta Das
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das, who was delivering a speech at the Global Fintech Festival in Mumbai, said, "the RBI is now actively working towards a phased implementation of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in both wholesale and retail segments. This
What is e-Rupee: How RBI's plans to kill cryptos with its digital currency
India is among a handful of nations to have launched the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). In this video, Saloni Shukla and Saurav Kumar take you behind RBI’s plan to kill cryptocurrencies through its Digital Currency.What is e-Rupee: How RBI's plans to kill cryptos with
Digital currencies explained: How are CBDCs different from other Crypto assets?
Digital currencies, i.e. cryptos, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, are grabbing eyeballs and headlines worldwide. There is a lot of confusion about cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and CBDCs (central bank digital currencies). How are they different? Mythili
Budget 2022: PM Modi highlights India's push for digital currency and PLI schemes for MSMEs
In his post Budget speech to BJP workers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the 2022 Budget primes India up for a new World order. Here's what he said on RBI-issued digital currencies to PLI schemes and emergency credit guarantee schemes for MSMEs. Watch
From cryptocurrency regulation to farm laws repeal, key bills to be tabled in Winter Session of Parliament
The government on Tuesday listed 26 bills for the upcoming winter session of Parliament, including one to repeal the three contentious farm laws and another to ban all but a few private cryptocurrencies while allowing an official digital curren
Viral Acharya explains: Will cryptocurrencies be cause for sleepless nights for Central Banks?
Cryptocurrencies have drawn much attention from investors across the world. However, fiat currencies are not going out of fashion soon. Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor, Viral Acharya explains why sovereign nations will have reasons to di
RBI contemplating pilot launch of digital currency in wholesale, retail segments in near future
The Reserve Bank is working on a phased implementation strategy for its own digital currency and is in the process of launching it in wholesale and retail segments in the near future, RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar said on Thursday.RBI contemplating pi
ETMarkets Conclave: Cryptocurrency - How does the cryptocurrency work?
Watch Samrat Kishor, Partner, Golden Next Ventures, share all you need to know about cryptocurrency, how it works, how to evaluate different cryptos and if at all it can be a medium of exchange like regular currencies in a technical session & in a freewheeling chat with Bijoy San
ETMarkets Conclave - Digital evolution of money: How is the world coming to terms with it?
Watch Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore, discuss how the world is coming to terms with the evolution of digital money, in conversation with Malik Khan Kotadia, Co-founder & Global Board Chairman, Global Impact FinTech For
ETMarkets Conclave: Cryptocurrency - Cryptocurrency has arrived! Or has it?
Watch a panel of experts discuss if cryptocurrency has indeed arrived or if there is still a long way to go before digital currencies get ready acceptance. The panel includes Massimo Buonomo, former UN expert on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency; Ajeet Khurana, ex-CEO, ZebPay an
ETMarkets Conclave: Cryptocurrency - Evolution of CBDC
How can a digital currency from RBI change your world? Watch Massimo Buonomo, former UN expert on blockchain and cryptocurrency, break down the concept of central bank digital currency at ETMarkets Cryptocurrency Conclave.ETMarkets Conclave: Cryptocurrency - Evolution of CBDC
Bitcoin hits lowest since mid-Feb, falls below $50k; Yellen calls the cryptocurrency highly speculative
Bitcoin dropped below $50,000 on Monday, hitting its lowest level since mid-February, as investors worried that its price may have gotten too high, too fast. The world's largest cryptocurrency in terms of volume fell to as low as $47,400, its weak
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