"Suddenly, Bitcoin to Be Officially Legal in India"
posted Jule 20, 2017
https://cointelegraph.com/news/suddenly-bitcoin-to-be-officially-legal-in-indiaBitcoin exchanges in India have been able to operate but they have been self-regulating using strict Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering measures
https://veratad.com/solutions/identity-verification/ in place. These areas will now fall under government regulation.
Funny side note--a member of the parliament in India likened Bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme as recently as March of this year. Pretty wild.
"In a letter to the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India, Somaiya explained that Bitcoin is a pyramid Ponzi-type scheme. However, Somaiya was criticized for his inability to understand the structural and fundamental difference between a Ponzi scheme and Bitcoin."
I think here government of India is himself confused whether what to make with the bitcoin because here i myself can't think that they can ban but still they are not making legal offically which is contradiction to my thinking .
But here all types of rumros are going on which are telling directly that government can't ban but still they are making a big and strict rules to use bitcoin .
And also a new news indicating directly that what the government wants ,
the government of India is looking to launch own coin named Laxmi coin which is directly telling that what will happen in India with the Cryptocurrency future .
I am here thinking that government of India is thinking that the money flow from India is going speedly with the bitcoin and they want flow back by launching own coin by forigen people and counterbalance the flow of money .