Crypto Currency
26-08-2023
11:40 AM
1 min read
Overview:
According to a working research paper published in the Bank for International Settlements, over 73% crypto currency users lost money.
About Crypto Currency:
- After the U.S. and Turkey, India has the third highest number of registered downloads of crypto exchange apps.
- As of June 2022, there were over 30 million crypto exchange app downloads in India.
- But in terms of downloads per capita, India features among the countries with the lowest number of downloads.
- This is because of its vast population and crypto awareness being mostly limited to urban pockets.
- Countries such as the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. rank much higher in terms of per capita downloads.
- India also features among those countries with the lowest average monthly app usage per 1 lakh people.
- According to the study 73%-81% of the users would have lost money. A median investor would have lost $431, corresponding to 48% of the total $900 invested.
Cryptocurrency:
- Cryptocurrencies are digital or virtual currencies in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of their units and verify the transfer of funds.
- These currencies operate independently of a central bank.
- The economic transactions underlying cryptocurrency are decentralized, distributed and disbursed.
- The first and most famous cryptocurrency, bitcoin was introduced in 2009.
Technology:
- Most cryptocurrencies of the world are built on blockchain technology.
- Blockchain is a decentralized and distributed database on a peer-peer network which works on the basis of a consensus mechanism involving every node (computer) on the network.
- Blockchain is a peer-to-peer distributed network that records a public history of transactions without actually recording identities of the parties or the transaction details.