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‘Is cryptocurrency legal now?’ asks Congress as Centre taxes digital assets
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced a 30 per cent tax on any income from the transfer of virtual digital assets, specifying that no deductions and exemptions will be allowed.

Written by Joydeep Bose, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Regulating crypto assets in India
- The study has been authored by Megha Bal, Shweta Venkatesan and Varun Ramdas

Bitcoin plunges over 20% in another sign of global market nerves
Ether, the second-largest token, fell as much as 17.4% before trimming the retreat to about 10%. The overall crypto sector has shed around a fifth of its value, sliding to $2.2 trillion, according to tracker CoinGecko.
HTLS 21: Cryptocurrency policy must be neutral, says economist Lawrence Summers
According to the leading US economist, it is expected that such a neutral policy on cryptocurrency will lead the economy to a “middle way” – which is more permissive than the entrenched financial interests that do not want to see this disruptive innovation.

Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Cryptocurrency in India: Is a blanket ban possible? Here's how things may change
Transferring cryptocurrencies from one wallet to another is essentially no different from sharing files from one computer to the other, so a regulatory ban might not take away people's ability to send cryptocurrencies to each other. But it could complicate the process:

Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times, New Delhi