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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: How safe is India’s crypto gold rush for ordinary investors? | In Focus
Description: These days, if you turn on the TV, there is no escaping the flood of advertisements urging you to invest in cryptocurrencies. Everyone seems to be busy getting rich from bitcoin and other cryptos. A host of crypto-exchanges have attracted funding from global investors and are promising the moon to retail investors. But these crypto-exchanges themselves are not comparable to a conventional stock exchange such as the BSE or the NSE, which bear some of the risks of a trade, whereas the crypto-exchanges don’t.However, the government has allowed this sector to mushroom in a regulatory va...