The year was 2018ish. RBI had imposed a blanket ban on all banks on interacting with centralized exchanges. As a result, all the banks stopped the movement of INR from bank accounts to your CEX wallets. Later, these exchanges filed a case in the Supreme Court. The ground was that one cannot stop anyone from […]
Cryptocurrency
Top Learnings from Terra Debacle: You either win or learn
As I write this piece, $LUNA is trading at $0.007632. For the uninitiated, this darling crypto traded at nearly $120 just a month a go. Call it an attack or someone exploiting a glitch in the economic model of the LUNA-UST, fortunes were made and destroyed in the past one week. As the dust settles […]
GM? How about No? Top reasons behind Crypto Crash!
I think it is time we come up with an antonym of GM for the cryptoverse. Because whatever has happened in the past week, was not a ‘GM’ by any stretch of imagination. For some reason, 5% FD returns are looking quite lucrative now. But all of this is a part and parcel of life! […]
Unpopular Opinion: Crypto Taxes in India are Just Fine
Recently, I got myself into yet another conversation around taxation. It was on a Telegram group of crypto enthusiasts. There was this usual rant around government imposing draconian crypto taxation regime. So after convincing them for a while, I started getting backlash. At this point, I asked one of them that how much tax are […]
Has Crypto Winter Set in? My Bear Market Strategy!
It’s not May, it is freaking Mayhem. Okay. May not be good time to crack jokes when your portfolio is down by almost 60%. On top of that, there is no signs of recovery either. The OG BTC is expected form lower lows and your plans to the moons and lambos have taken a serious […]
How Inflation is a Silent Killer?
If you belong to an Indian middle class family, I am sure that this topic might have popped up in the dinner conversations. We constantly complain that the price of commodities and daily items is going up on a daily basis. However, little do we know the science behind it. When I try to explain […]
What is Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS)
With government introducing a digital asset tax to the tune of 30%, there is yet another discussion around ‘brain drain‘ in India. While that’s a topic for another blogpost, this time around, we would talk about yet another web3 marvel coming out of India. After Polygon has represented India on a global map as the […]
How Crypto Rescued Me and My Family Overseas?
I had not travelled outside the country for the past four years now. Yes, a lot of it could be attributed to the pandemic. Also the fact that lord Satoshi had NOT showered his financial blessings upon me, until now. So when the stars aligned, I decided to take my first trip powered by ‘crypto […]
Cheapest Way to Enter Injective Ecosystem and Trade on Picasso Exchange
All this while, community has been complaining about the exorbitant costs involved to get started on Picasso Exchange. And we could not agree more. After all, if you try moving your assets from Ethereum to Injective, you would end up spending $80-$150 in gas fee alone. Given that this would be the last time you […]
Top 5 Crypto Exchanges:
Back in 2008, when Bitcoin came into being, the only way to get hands on one was to mine it. Alternatively, one could send it to you, but that was a very tightly knit closed group. So how does one drive the mass adoption of an asset? Yes, exchanges! An exchange is marketplace for commodities, […]