India

The government of India seems to be confused when it comes to the previous bitcoin and cryptocurrency ban. Last year, the government made it clear that whoever is caught illegally participating in the mining, buying or selling of cryptocurrencies, he or she will be jailed for around 10 years, according to the draft "Banning of Virtual Currency Restrictions and Official Cryptocurrency Regulation Bill 2019". With the help of VPN, citizens continued to deal in cryptocurrencies and nothing was done to them. Now, the authority has come out to show its position on this matter, by revealing that the financial authorities have imposed no restrictions yet on digital currency dealings.

The Republic of India, the seventh-biggest nation by area geographically located in South Asia, has shown much disbelief in the new cryptocurrency owned by Facebook known as Libra aka GlobalCoin. In fact, the coin will not be allowed to operate in the country.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) develops a blockchain-based platform for banking starting with its R&D branch. The distributed ledger tech (DLT) platform is going to host a wide spectrum of blockchain applications beginningovel  in 2020. The blockchain-powered platform will serve financial institutions including banks and will start with the RBI’s R&D branch. The new platform is generally for DLT use case for the government in financial banking.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency traders in India are not benefiting from the industry following the ban of cryptocurrency activities by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April last year, and this is making their social life hard. The peer-to-peer (P2P) system that was developed by cryptoasset exchanges has some voids in it and hackers have taken advantage of this to fraud people and most of them have become or are yet to be victims.

The Supreme Court of India, the country’s top judiciary body, has extended the cryptocurrency case hearing after receiving an official request from the government’s counsel. It was expected that the court could hear about the India’s crypto regulation on March 29 before continuing to address the banking ban by the country’s central bank. The case has now been deferred up to July.

The Indian government has been cautious of Blockchain and digital currencies and for good reason. The series of scams conveyed from India has been the government’s plan. Nevertheless, the current turn of events, the Supreme Court has asked the government of India to draft the blockchain (DLT) and cryptocurrency regulations for the nation in just four weeks.

The risks associated with digital currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) are very clear. The dark side of the cryptocurrency revolution includes terrorism financing, money laundering, drug dealing, sex, violence, gambling and more. But a prominent panel tasked with drafting rules for the crypto industry in India is now haunted by its impact on a less-tapped field.

India holds a big global economy that is now facing a rapid growth of use cases for blockchain and cryptocurrency markets. Taking demand into account, India plans to design a suitable roadmap for distributed ledger technology (DLT) soon or later, according to the report by Financial Express.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is allegedly forcing the clients of the commercial banking institutions to completely abandon cryptocurrencies including bitcoin (BTC) and stop operating any kind of business activity related to cryptoassets. In case the client wants to set up a new bank account in any commercial banking institution in the country, he or she is forced to sign documents which in this case read that they shan’t deal in any digital currency transactions from their bank accounts.