Cash crops: Dutch use bitcoin mining to grow tulips
Amsterdam: Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together.…
Crypto investors seek clarity on reporting assets in I-T returns
Wealthy Indian investors who have moved their crypto holdings to wallets with exchanges and vaults abroad to escape a hostile regime at home are in a Catch22 situation - unsure…
Buckle Up: How investors can deal with crypto turbulence
When Doug Milnes started buying cryptocurrencies in January of this year, he felt like it could become an entirely new asset class for investors. Right now what it is making…
Bitcoin poised for biggest quarterly drop in more than a decade
Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter in more than a decade, as more hawkish central banks and a string of high-profile crypto blowups hammer sentiment. The 56% drawdown…
DeFi can’t hold a candle to the centuries-old trust-based system called hawala
In the history of dangerous naivety, the decentralized finance mania of 2021 will hold its own against the 2007 boom in collateralized debt obligations. It took a financial crisis for…
How anonymous is bitcoin, really?
Alyssa Blackburn, a data scientist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has spent several years performing digital detective work with her trusty lab assistant, Hail Mary,…
Cryptos can lead to dollarisation of economy: RBI officials to parliamentary panel
Cryptocurrencies can lead to "dollarisation" of a part of the economy which would be against India's sovereign interest, top officials of the RBI have told a parliamentary panel, according to…
Reward points, e-vouchers out of crypto tax ambit
India will provide a specific exclusion for e-vouchers, points earned on cards on shopping and payments, and other such digital reward assets from the proposed tax on virtual digital assets…
India to take a considered view on crypto: Nirmala Sitharaman
India will not rush into any decision on cryptocurrencies and will take a well-considered view, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. "It has to take its time for all of…
Rario to bring NFTs of Australian cricket
Rario and BlockTrust have signed an official licensing deal with Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) that will see digital collectibles or NFTs (non-fungible tokens) from Australian cricket…
