Since RBI has been against Bitcoin and crypto in particular from 2018 till today, I wanted to know how much they spent in general for minting INR every year. All this blah blah by the existing RBI governor against crypto will go into the gutter if you read the amount.
For the financial year 2022, the amount in INR is 4984.8 Cr. Whereas the amount for printing money in 2021 was INR 4012.09 Cr. The amount might sound too much for a country that is considered a third world country globally. I found this information from a 2022
article.
One of the biggest reasons for approximately spending INR 5000 Cr by RBI is to stop fake currency. Do you know CBDC can be counterfeited? If not then please this topic -
Did you know the significant difference between Bitcoin and CBDC Can RBI stop fake CBDC circulation? Will they spend such kind of amount to safeguard it?
Wow, that's quite interesting. Almost 4000 crore INR every year to print money and then they call bitcoin not friendly to nature.
The amount of paper required to print such kind of money, I wonder how many trees are being cut for that.
From one point of view, it's good that the government is taking action against counterfeit notes but we must know whatever we try we will fail.
Counterfeit notes will be available in the market at some point of time. This reminds of the recent web series
Farzi which shows how people create counterfeit notes and use them in the market.
Bitcoin solves this problem of counterfeiting but our government decides to prohibit it's use.
At least now they have understood they can't completely ban it and has started to embrace blockchain technology by creating a CBDC of their own.