Numbers show 100 million, so if we say that the majority would be concentrated in urban areas, then there must be at least 10% of the population in Mumbai, so at least 2.5 million poeple own crypto there, in just a city! Can somebody show some real proof of that number? I mean, if a city of 500k total population in Europe has 10-50 businesses accepting crypto that would bring the number to thousands in Mumbai, right?
You would have almost the same number of users as the number of votes Gandhi got in 2019 yet nobody takes a push for legalization, not with such a huge voting power behind it.
So, there must be something wrong with those numbers.
Of course, the number of 100 million makes no sense no matter how someone sets up that story. All this is the product of someone who wants to create FOMO in that country by persistently placing one and the same lie - and how many times have we just read this information on the forum? It is a bit hard for me to believe that people who do not have basic living conditions (electricity/toilet) and also according to data from 2021 more than 20% of them are completely illiterate can be leaders in the number of crypto users.
Also (if something hasn't changed) there are no political parties in India that support Bitcoin.
I think you are right about their political party. Corrupt leaders only care about money and this is validated by seeing this news yesterday. They are implementing a 30% tax on all digital assets which means crypto. But you know what the funny part is they are charging not only for gains but if you gift someone with digital currencies you have to pay that 30% tax. But they haven't legalized crypto in their country yet but implementing the tax in it! I am not sure what I should call it funny or discouraging for the crypto user!