Blockchain & crypto news from India
Away from the hype and excitement around blockchain and new forms of money, a Foreign Policy article offers a sobering view of the new business world that has sprung around the hype around cryptocurrencies, tokens, DeFi, NFTs and digital assets. It turns out it is the same old finance and market practices that have found…
Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman recently said to the media that the overhyped blockchain has proven to be “useless”. The shut down of TradeLens is only one of the events he cites to support his anti-crypto views that he has been sharing for a long time. In 2011, he had published an op-ed in…
The Taliban are cracking down on crypto traders in Afghanistan. The economy of Afghanistan has suffered since late the previous year when the Taliban took control over the jurisdiction on the 15th of August 2021. The Taliban’s seizure has pushed large areas of the nation into more poverty.