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Title: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: assortmentofsorts on June 28, 2013, 05:29:30 AM
Report from Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/RBI-red-flags-virtual-currency/articleshow/20808495.cms

Actual report: http://rbi.org.in/scripts/PublicationReportDetails.aspx?UrlPage=&ID=709 , SEE: Box 3.4: Virtual Currency Schemes


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: rezurect on June 28, 2013, 05:32:57 AM
Expected Initial Reaction. To things they dont really understand.
India followed US policy i guess, if and when BTC goes mainstream in the US, I expect India to follow suit.


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: assortmentofsorts on June 28, 2013, 05:36:19 AM
Expected Initial Reaction. To things they dont really understand.
India followed US policy i guess, if and when BTC goes mainstream in the US, I expect India to follow suit.

True. Also, part of the article which talks about "D Sivanandhan" concerns about Bitcoin can be found here: http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=170161 (http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=170161)


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: Benson Samuel on June 28, 2013, 05:46:15 AM
This looks more like a statement more than anything else.
Don't think it indicates anything about P2P or decentralization; these are the biggest threats to the current Banking system.

But it is good to see that India inc is taking a look at it on a mildly proactive basis.


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: subvolatil on June 28, 2013, 06:53:56 AM
Who  the  hell is the idiot  that wrote  for the TOI, looks  like   it  does not know   what  Crypto  currency is about , and  this is  a  classic  FUD they  are   trying to  engage in. guess the reporter  was  paid  by the  bank to  write  this.  money laundering, terror groups, i  guess  its  become a  world wide  trend  for  people  to  use  these  words  for  thing  they  dont  like  and  dont  understand.   


Get it  through your thick  head  the  developer  does not  issue  the  crypto currency, nor  does  he  control the supply of  the  crypto  currency. crypto is   a  decentralized  currency, a new  technological innovation an  movement. there is no  central authority  controlling  crypto .     


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: Benson Samuel on June 28, 2013, 06:59:20 AM
Who  the  hell is the idiot  that wrote  for the TOI, looks  like   it  does not know   what  Crypto  currency is about , and  this is  a  classic  FUD they  are   trying to  engage in. guess the reporter  was  paid  by the  bank to  write  this.  money laundering, terror groups, i  guess  its  become a  world wide  trend  for  people  to  use  these  words  for  thing  they  dont  like  and  dont  understand.   


Get it  through your thick  head  the  developer  does not  issue  the  crypto currency, nor  does  he  control the supply of  the  crypto  currency. crypto is   a  decentralized  currency, a new  technological innovation an  movement. there is no  central authority  controlling  crypto .     

I know that Indu does the tech review for TOI. But does not look like her writing at all. She knows way more about bTC.


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: psypi on June 28, 2013, 09:53:10 AM
They're just scared about the decentralization. They hate what they can't control.

"When people fear the government there is tyranny. When government fears the people there is freedom" -Thomas Jefferson


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: Pinwheel on June 28, 2013, 11:46:10 AM
what I told ya just few weeks ago  ;D

now, get your self few good VPNs


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: rezurect on June 28, 2013, 02:50:12 PM
Just remember that the State's backlash against bitcoin has not yet begun. They fight, and they fight dirty.


Title: Re: RBI red flags 'Virtual currency'
Post by: Amitabh S on June 29, 2013, 07:12:22 PM
What is this Bit coin they talk about?  ;D ;D ;D