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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: Bitcoin

Are Bitcoins retracing the dot-com bust phase of world wide web to realise its true worth?

The world wide web arrived in 1990 and it took a dramatic collapse and 20 years to realise its true commercial potential.

Bitcoin uses healthy paranoia & not threat of violence to maintain online security

Despite the potential for abuse, no case of outsize influence has been reported in the decentralised Bitcoin network.

Blockchain startups tap economics Nobel winners as cryptocurrency fanfare wanes

Funding has fallen, and blockchain startups hope partnerships with Nobel laureates will change that.

Don’t panic over Bitcoin fall, Apples and Googles of crypto economy are coming

Bitcoin has been on a nose dive since early 2018. But the market sentiment cannot affect crypto’s potential to change the world.

This Delhi Police ‘Batmobile’ is out to catch the fake news bad guys

The force now has at its disposal a hi-tech van equipped with technology that allows them to 'crack' phones in minutes.

Gujarat’s bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme could lead to India’s largest banking scandal

A $3 billion scam could be unfolding in Gujarat as probe into an alleged Ponzi scheme reveals tax evasion, police corruption and a fugitive politician. 

Bitcoins are not Islamic, a new directive tells Indian Muslims

Bitcoin has no set rules, and is forbidden in Islam, says a new directive from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.  

RBI’s ban on Bitcoins puts regulators’ accountability back under judicial scrutiny

India’s most trusted regulatory body, the Reserve Bank of India, has given the courts two opportunities to question its manner of taking significant decisions in the last two years.

Cryptocurrency may be illegal in India, but dealers are finding ways to do business anyway

Crypto dealers are trying to identify institutions out of RBI’s purview, such as post offices, where money orders can be used to send and receive funds.

Delhi based Coinsecure loses $3 million in a Bitcoin heist

The firm is working hard to recover the money. However, its efforts might be hampered by India’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies even as global prices rebound.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.