Welcome to our fortnightly newsletter, where our reporters Kruttika Lokesh and Dhananjay Dhonchak put together handpicked stories from the world of tech law! You can find other issues here. Supreme Court quashes RBI circular and permits cryptocurrency trading A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on 4th March, 2020, allowed dealing in cryptocurrency, quashing an…
Category: Bitcoins
Indian Government’s Stance on Cryptocurrencies: An Analysis
This post on the recent recommended ban on cryptocurrency has been authored by Shivani Malik, a final year law student at the Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. Current Scenario The Ministry of Economic Affairs in its recent press release dated July 22, 2019, prepared a report on the Committee on Virtual Currencies, which proposed a…
BLOCKCHAINS: THE TRUE INNOVATION BEHIND BITCOINS
Ed. Note: This post by Vishal Rakhecha is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2016. Bitcoins have disrupted e-commerce not because of the idea of virtual currency but the peer- to-peer system it has developed. The USP of bitcoins was the decentralised structure of data entry. Any participant in the entire network can…