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Fear of crypto. Fear of change
India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalising miners, traders -source
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But recent government comments had raised investors' hopes that the authorities might go easier on the booming market.</p>\n<p>Instead, the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate, after which penalties will be levied, said the official, who asked not to be named as the contents of the bill are not public.</p>\n<p>Officials are confident of getting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government holds a comfortable majority in parliament.</p>\n<p>If the ban becomes law, India would be the first major economy to make holding cryptocurrency illegal. Even China, which has banned mining and trading, does not penalise possession.</p>\n<p>The Finance Ministry did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.</p>\n<p><b>'GREED' OVER 'PANIC'</b></p>\n<p>Bitcoin , the world's biggest cryptocurrency, hit a record high $60,000 on Saturday, nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has increased with support from such high-profile backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk.</p>\n<p>In India, despite government threats of a ban, transaction volumes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in crypto-investments, according to industry estimates. 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Even China, which has banned mining and trading, does not penalise possession.\nThe Finance Ministry did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.\n'GREED' OVER 'PANIC'\nBitcoin , the world's biggest cryptocurrency, hit a record high $60,000 on Saturday, nearly doubling in value this year as its acceptance for payments has increased with support from such high-profile backers as Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk.\nIn India, despite government threats of a ban, transaction volumes are swelling and 8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in crypto-investments, according to industry estimates. No official data is available.\n\"The money is multiplying rapidly every month and you don't want to be sitting on the sidelines,\" said Sumnesh Salodkar, a crypto-investor. \"Even though people are panicking due to the potential ban, greed is driving these choices.\"\nUser registrations and money inflows at local crypto-exchange Bitbns are up 30-fold from a year ago, said Gaurav Dahake, its chief executive. Unocoin, one of India's oldest exchanges, added 20,000 users in January and February, despite worries of a ban.\nZebPay \"did as much volume per day in February 2021 as we did in all of February 2020,\" said Vikram Rangala, the exchange's chief marketing officer.\nTop Indian officials have called cryptocurrency a \"Ponzi scheme\", but Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman this month eased some investor concerns.\n\"I can only give you this clue that we are not closing our minds, we are looking at ways in which experiments can happen in the digital world and cryptocurrency,\" she told CNBC-TV18. \"There will be a very calibrated position taken.\"\nThe senior official told Reuters, however, that the plan is to ban private crypto-assets while promoting blockchain - a secure database technology that is the backbone for virtual currencies but also a system that experts say could revolutionise international transactions.\n\"We don't have a problem with technology. 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