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For a government that has embraced fintechs and blockchain wholeheartedly in the past few years, its stance on crypto-currencies is perplexing. Is it a lack of understanding, or a lack of institutional capacity, that is preventing the government from stepping up and regulating crypto-currencies?
In January, the government announced that it plans to enter the global race of digital currencies or CBDCs while at the same time banning “private” crypto-currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum among others. However, in the last few months it has indicated that it will give some room to crypto-entrepreneurs and blockchain founders to continue building, developing and running new and innovative systems. As far as crypto-investors are concerned, the government has said there will be some protections under the proposed law.
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade nominated non-official members representing various stakeholders. Byju Raveendran, Deepak Garg, Mohandas Pai, Uday Shankar make it to the list
Penguin Random House India acquires Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani’s new book
Titled The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Sane in the Digital World, it details ways to take reins of our life into our own hands from the Internet. It has been acquired by Penguin Random House India and will be published under the Allen Lane imprint in April 2021 Updated: December 11, 2020 3:09:11 pm
The book will be out in April 2021. (Express Photo)
Entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani, a fellow at iSPIRT Foundation, are coming up with a book in sync with the times we are living now. Titled
The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Sane in the Digital World, it details ways to take reins of our life into our own hands from the Internet. It has been acquired by Penguin Random House India and will be published under the Allen Lane imprint in April 2021.
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