Understanding the GameStop Phenomenon and India's Proposed Cryptocurrency Ban
Overview
In this video, we delve into two significant topics: the GameStop saga, where retail investors challenged Wall Street hedge funds, and the proposed cryptocurrency ban in India. The aim is to simplify these complex financial narratives and highlight their connections.
The GameStop Saga
- Background: A group of amateur investors on Reddit, known as WallStreetBets, orchestrated a campaign against hedge funds that were short-selling GameStop shares.
- Short Selling Explained: Short selling involves borrowing shares to sell them at a high price, hoping to buy them back at a lower price. This practice can lead to significant losses for companies targeted by hedge funds. For a deeper understanding of market dynamics, check out our summary on Market Insights: Understanding Corrections, Tariffs, and Investment Strategies.
- The Retail Investor Response: Retail investors began buying GameStop shares en masse, driving the price up from $3 to nearly $480, resulting in massive losses for hedge funds that had shorted the stock.
- Market Manipulation Allegations: Trading platforms like Robinhood restricted buying of GameStop shares, raising ethical concerns and leading to a class-action lawsuit.
Proposed Cryptocurrency Ban in India
- Historical Context: The Indian government has attempted to ban cryptocurrency trading in the past, with a significant Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that deemed such bans unconstitutional. For more on the legal implications surrounding cryptocurrencies, see our summary on Understanding the XRP Controversy: SEC Charges and Market Impact.
- Current Draft Bill: A new draft bill proposes to ban all private cryptocurrencies, allowing only a government-issued digital currency. This has raised concerns about the rights of retail investors and the potential impact on the crypto market in India. To learn more about buying cryptocurrencies in different markets, refer to our Comprehensive Guide to Buying Cryptocurrency: Coinbase and WazirX Demo.
- Implications for Investors: If passed, the ban could erase significant wealth for millions of Indian crypto investors, echoing the sentiments of the GameStop saga where retail investors felt sidelined by institutional players.
Conclusion
The narratives of the GameStop phenomenon and the proposed cryptocurrency ban in India highlight the ongoing struggle between retail investors and institutional powers. As these stories unfold, it is crucial for investors to stay informed and prepared for potential changes in the market landscape. For insights into how global events affect cryptocurrency markets, check out Russia's Journey with Cryptocurrency: Navigating Sanctions and Legal Frameworks.
hello everyone uh today we're going to be talking about two topics uh the first one is about a story where
uh you would have probably heard about this in in most of the news channels about a stock
called gamestop and how about how a group of amateur investors or retail investors basically
took down the wall street giants the wall street hedge funds
in their own game and something that had never been seen never been witnessed in the sham market history
in the trading history before and uh it was phenomenal story basically and but if you've been following the
story was was finding it difficult to understand i'm kind of trying to make it easier to understand when when i made
the video in tamil a lot of people had commented saying that they tried reading about it but they
couldn't understand but they watched the video and they they understood a lot better so
hopefully i can do the same thing in the english version as well also connected sorry i mean i say it's
connected but when i was initially trying to make it i was trying to make it as two
different videos about the proposed um cryptocurrency ban in india there is a draft
a bill that has been brought in to the agenda for banning cryptocurrency in india and
initially it didn't look as a connected story but the more and more that i was making the
content it started feeling like a connected story and i decided to make it as one
video and then i know end of the video you decide how much the stories are connected and how
you can relate to both the stories so we'll be talking about both the stories today so one disclaimer that i want to
give in the story is that you know there might appear to be a little bit of
buyers you know so far what i've done is i've tried to give my content without any bias you know just basically
presenting the information in the simplest form but today's content uh it might look as
if i'm a little bit biased and i try to make it as non-biased as possible but you will
probably notice there is a little bit of bias in the story that i'm taking probably one of the sides of the story
so um i'll try and you know present both sides of the argument as much as possible but you would probably end up
looking at it as if it's a buyer's story but you know i can't help it with this kind of a story because it was
basically a once in a kind story so again uh we made a presentation um i mean i made a presentation and
you know like i said i kind of put both the stories about the proposed india crypto ban and the retail investors
how they took down the wall street chance and you know when we get into the content you'll probably start realizing
the uh the relationship more and more so first of all you know what let's start with the basics right you know people
who don't even know share trading what is normal share trading when a company wants to expand their
business they want to um you know get more money from investors and basically
you know do more business they sell part of the company ownership of the company in a concept called the shares
and these shares and they still retain majority ownership but these shares enable
private investors to buy ownership in the company so that you know when the company is doing well they can also get
benefit out of it so you can basically as a private investor you can buy shares of the
company and because you are you are investing in the company you are helping the company
by giving them funds to grow the company and eventually you want the company to do
well and be successful so the share value of the company goes up and then when the share value goes up
you can sell the company and can get profit if the company is doing really well they
can even give you dividends on the shares that you own so traditionally this is how it works you
know a lot of people say that share trading is is you know gambling for example but if
nobody did share trading nobody bought shares of these companies these companies will not get
the good amount of investment that they get from retail investors to grow the company so
eventually people when they do share trading it is actually contributing to the economy
it is contributing to some of the good companies trying to do you know much better business so it's
something that was really needed and it was working really well which is when the derivatives concepts was
introduced in the shar trading there was a need for um
further products other than this the plain vanilla share trading where we talked about derivatives we've
even explained what all derivatives are there in the market kind of explained it everything with
details you know we saw example where if a company wants to give employees share options as incentives
instead of just giving them shares you know so that when the company performs well in the future
these options might actually financially benefit the employees so there's a lot of things in
that there was a new concept caller there was a concept called shorting so what is shorting so shorting was one
of the derivative products in shorting basically um the the person who is actually
shorting the company is trying to make sure that the price of the share comes down
that's their objective in shorting so they're trying to make money again you know this is another way of making money
but in shorting they are essentially trying to make sure that the company does not succeed
and the company's share value comes down and they make money out of the fact that the company's share value comes down
generally the major investing firms like in hedge funds billionaire h ones right they do shorting and they are
practically betting on the failure of the company and because of the way shorting works and
these hedge funds are generally billionaire hedge funds you know they are
all the billionaires all the rich people in the world they invest their money in these hedge funds so
when they uh have so much manpower and so much money and they shot a company it actually triggers the failure of the
company and collapses the company's shares they in fact act like a self-fulfilling
prophecy they used to call it and they get billions and billions in profit and the
the company that they pick for shorting eventually when they have targeted it when they have planned it because of the
manpower that they have their company will almost become bankrupt some of the companies have even
gone out of business when they have been shorted to that extent the share value is absolutely collapsed
and a lot of companies have become bankrupt when these hedge funds these large corporate hedge funds move
against a company and they short the company and ordinary investors like us like private investors retail
investors we are called as retail investors we will eventually lose money in share trading when
most people lose money because these hedge funds these corporate hedge funds which are backed up by billionaires and
rich people um they actually do these kind of things against the company and when we
are really basically you know doing normal investment waiting for the company to do well and there's somebody
else who's shorting the company it actually um you know ends up in a loss for us
so how does it actually work technically what does what what really happens what is shorting
so in in in normal scenario there's like a broker and retail investors but in shorting these hedge funds come
in between they call the short sellers uh assume the share value is about 200 rupees
so what they do is they go to a broker broker is someone who's actually holding the shares
it's like any any broker right a real estate broker or anybody they they've not bought or sold the shares
they're just holding the shares at this point of time they are doing it for somebody else so
they have lot of shares so the hedge funds go and borrow the shares and they they probably you know pay a
collateral but they don't actually buy it you know they can put down the money as collateral
or there are fees that are paid to the broker but they don't pay for buying the shares it's a collateral that is given
to them so they borrow let's say you know a hundred thousand shares one lakh shares
from the broker so at the moment the share value is 200 rupees
when they borrow the guarantee that they will give it back in like two or three days
time frame this is when they open a short position this whole concept is called as opening a short position
so what they do is um they essentially sell the whole thing like a you know they bought a lot of
shares basically hundred thousand shares they've borrowed one lectures they immediately sell it at
one go for the current share price let's say 200 rupees right so they get two crores
in in hand when they sell the shares because it's it's uh it acts like a dump
because when when you have so many shares being sold in the market in a very short span of
time it's something unusual that happens in the market and retail investors start panicking you
know it acts like a trigger where like why why are they selling why are there so many sales happening
why is the shares being sold so much so they basically start panicking and when the number of
cells increase it it acts like a cascade basically so
when the retail investors start panicking and they start selling it it becomes like a snowballing casket so
eventually the share price starts falling and you know panic starts increasing even more and more because
you know from 200 rupees you know the minute that it starts
reducing and the minute everybody's starting to sell it it becomes like a complete panic sell
if it doesn't work once you know the hedge funds will borrow more shares repeat the process again and it will it
eventually it will work that's how normally it has always worked so what they will do
one they'll wait if the sharp the the short position let's say the target that they had was 50 rupees once
the shaft value reaches 50 rupees they will buy the 100 000 shares from the market
with 50 rupees which is practically 50 lakhs is what they need to spend they already have two crores by by
selling the shares in the 200 rupee range so they'll take the 50 rupees and now they will
um you know they'll spend 50 lakhs get the 100 000 shares and return it to the
broker now they have a profit of 1.5 crores almost you know they they didn't invest any
money they borrowed the shares sold it at two crores now they can buy it back at 50 lakhs the share values has
dropped literally from 200 rupees to 50 rupees total profit is 1.5 crores they can make
it in like one day or two days and this is how the hedge funds normally make a lot of money
a lot of profit eventually collectively people like us retail investors we have lost 1.5 crores that company that
they've shorted has lost most of its money so most of the time
who are the target companies hedge funds will pick a company that is not doing well
and they are already struggling this there's already bad news about the company and they're already struggling
they have economy problems they have you know revenue problems and they are not hitting their targets and that the
company is already in a bit of a struggle so once they decide to short the company
they execute the plan so perfectly in some these hedge funds you know um like i
said billionaire investors investors behind the company give them so much money that they have practically
like unlimited resources they have a lot of manpower and a lot of resources access to the networks
television channels so they can basically spread news as well so they can
you know they they share their profits with these uh with these billionaire investors once they
get the money and once they make the profit so the only way retail investors like us can make money is we have to
pick the right stocks which are never going to be in the target of these uh
hedge funds as in terms of shorting that they have a very strong business case and they are really doing well
and they will never become a target of these hedge funds and even if they do we have to have nerves of steel to hold
it and it will eventually drop and we have to wait till it actually comes back again it could make
months it could be like more than a year um after it recovers from shorting sometimes it can recover faster but
eventually uh we have to we have to basically withstand that that point where that particular stock
gets shorted if we had invested in it so that's the only way out for us
what really happened was a group of retail investors ordinary people with a lot of analytical skills i mean
the amount of analytical skills that they had was amazing they came together on a social media
forum called as reddit the scholars of wall street bets was the name of the group that
that they had and they had a very ingenious plan against these hedge funds so they picked the companies
that they knew will become targets by these hedge funds next and they decided to play a game um against
the hedge funds in accord with a technique called the short squeeze squeeze is not something
that is new but the way in which they played it against hedge funds and they used it in the in
the scenario was what was different so this was something that had never been attempted before that's something
that these hedge funds had never seen before i mean this was
basically you know everybody said that this is totally unexpected or you know totally unheard of that
anything can even be remotely planned against his hedge funds like couple of months back if somebody had
even suggested it it would have been shot down saying that it was technically
impossible uh to do something like this so that's the level of planning that they went to
and uh regardless of the fact that there's an open forum it was kept ultra quiet
so what really happened was um you know the still step two the hedge funds was doing really well they
sold the um hundred thousand shares at 200 rupees they got the two crores
the share prices started falling and this is when the uh redditor army started
in a counter countering the uh the hedge funds so they started doing a massive
buy um against the cell that the hedge funds have made so if the if the hedge funds had sold a
hundred thousand chests they basically went and bought twice the amount of shares they bought two hundred
thousand shares they made sure that they were buying more and more
than the hedge fund was selling so the market wasn't panicking the people were not seeing it
as uh the number of shares were being dumped so the dump was was countered with megabytes basically
like thousands and thousands we're talking about literally a million people buying even 10 shares 20 shares each
the share value continuously kept going up and up and up because now the uh the buying is actually far
exceeding selling and people are thinking that this company is being bought so there's
a lot of demand so the typically the market makers start increasing the price when there's so
much demand for a company's share so they just kept buying it was like a
non-stop buying they just like in continuously started buying against the stock that the the hedge funds were
targeting and you know regardless of how much shares that they were trying you know the hedge
funds were trying to repeat the process these guys just kept buying again and again so eventually the share value went
up to 20 000 rupees 100 times more than the original share value now this might look like an exaggeration
for you but you know i'll show you the real numbers i've used uh you know some some mock i
mean numbers here just to show you um the the impact that it had cost
so what it meant was the share value was at twenty thousand rupees now the hedge funds were nearing the
deadline by which legally they needed to give the borrowed shares back to the broker
which means that they needed to buy hundred thousand shares one lakh shares from the market but each share was now
20 000 rupees so they had no other option this is called a short squeeze
they were against the clock that they needed to basically buy these shares give it back to the broker and that
deadline is basically short squeeze where they have no other option but to buy it
at a premium that was in the market so they basically spent 20 000 rupees per share and bought
the 100 000 shares which was 200 crores spent so they had to spend
200 crores to buy the 100 000 shares that they had originally sold for two crores so eventually what it meant
was when they bought it back and they returned it to the broker
the hundred thousand shares that they had returned to the broker um they eventually spent you know 200
000 crores and because they had got only two crores out of selling it initially
the total um loss for them was nearly 198 crores so it was it was basically you know
where they were making two growth three growth profit they ended up making 198 crores i mean
this is one example that i'm giving you but most of these retail investors this 198 crore loss at the hedge funds made
it's now basically going to these retail investors and most of them are young kids and they
were basically posting screenshots in the thing where they you know spent like three thousand
dollars four thousand dollars and they now have millions of dollars sitting in their um most of them had not
even sold it they just wanted to punish these hedge funds they would just wanted to make
sure that these hedge funds of all the years and years of
abuse that they have done they just really wanted to punish the the hedge funds and they were just holding it
they were not even selling these shares and the sharepoint continuously kept going up and up and up
so the the lot of hedge funds lost enormous amount of money i mean at one point the total amount of money
estimated was 70 billion dollars so gamestop was the company gme was the ticker code was the company that was
used for this plan and that was the target of this hedge fund at that point when the shorting
started and it was a brick and mortar company basically a physical shop and the chain
of shops where they were selling computer games game accessories console games and there
are thousands of employees working in shops like these you know these are essential shops for these people
to have a you know to earn money and to have their salaries and to that's only way that they can earn their bread
and if these shops had become bankrupt if the share price had fallen down like the plan that the h1 had
these people would have lost their jobs as well the company could have collapsed and
like so many other companies that we see collapsing they could have lost their jobs
the share price was almost three dollars by the time that the plan had started executing
and from three dollars it reached about 480 dollars more than 100 times in fact i said from
200 rupees to 20 000 100 times look like a joke but in reality and actually it was actually
much much more than um 100 times now it is sitting around 325 but that's when the twist in the end game came i
mean people who are familiar with the with the jallikatta protests that we had in marina beach you know
what something unheard of happened we had won the protest it was like a seven eight ten day protest that we had won
after the supreme court had ruled in favor of the protest final day the police force was sent and
brutally assaulted everyone and it kind of you know made it bittersweet and bitter
end for the for a very sweet victory so similar to that uh the trading platform started eventually joining
these hedge funds because these hedge funds controlled a lot of things trading platforms news channels and
robin hood was one of the biggest culprit it was a very very trusted trading platform till last week
like zeroda in india which was used by millions and millions of retail investors
they stopped the retail investors from buying the stock anymore and the buy button was actually disabled
they were only able to sell the share they stopped these retail investors from buying and executing the plan at one
point of time so that they were only able to sell and they were it was very very clear they
were siding up with the h funds even though they were saying that uh they're using the terms and conditions
that people had signed sure enough you know terms and conditions there is probably you know
there's like about 100 pages of terms and conditions in that there is one line where it says
that in in in conditions where the market is really volatile
we can do this this this and this so they basically used exploited the gaps in the terms and conditions and
they went to another extreme step and they basically when the share price was sitting at 400
they took the shares of people and they sold it without permission of those people at a very very low price of
100 like you know three or four times less than the actual share price
they sold the shares that people were owning and it was completely immoral and unethical
what they had done but because they had it in terms and conditions you know they were basically
claiming that we are doing it to protect the retail investors against the volatility
and you know uh there's a class action lawsuit that's been filed against robin hood for doing this but
even big news channels like cnbc bc was basically started doing propaganda against these
hedge funds you know in favor of these hedge funds not against actually
they called this reddit retaliation as wrong and they were trying to portray these retail investors as billions
they were trying to protect the hedge fund saying that you know the hedge funds are all losing money
because these uh these retail investors do not know what they're doing they're just playing a game they're like you
know basically treating this as a casino and they're abusing the system and you know some of the
um a lot of social media in fact social media started ridiculing these cnbc reporters and they
started supporting the retail investors saying that look these
these uh these uh hedge funds have been abusing the system because it was legal they were abusing
the system all these years nobody had nobody had asked you guys have never pointed a finger they were
actually responsible for the 2008 uh financial crisis in the collapse and these retail investors had lost
their livelihoods at that point of time in fact these kids who are actually in their 20s right now
they are the kids of parents who lost their houses who lost their you know livelihood
at that point of time and they had seen their parents suffer drastically and nobody had questioned anything against
these humans in fact these hedge funds were actually rescued by the government at the point
of time so you know they were never expecting something like this could happen and
they were actually trying to protect the hedge funds by calling them as the victims here but
in reality the social media came out in full support of the retail investors and said
that look you know you guys are are completely you know
portraying the story incorrectly in reality uh what has happened is something that
everybody can see that in the table has turned people who have been abused all these
years have now turned an unprecedented unexpected event has occurred and you you can't just take it
and in fact they were even calling these retail investors what they had done as unethical and should be stopped um
there were supporters who actually came the supporters of the retail investors experts actually came on the news
channels counter-argued saying that these hedge funds you have allowed them to operate unethically
you've never questioned any of their shorting techniques now when the tables are turned you
cannot digest the fact that the retail investors are making money in fact one of the very famous i'll even give
the cnbc link for it once a very famous investor came on the news channel cnbc and
he took down the reporter who was trying to portray it this way and he tore into him literally saying
that you know this is exactly what happened these people are more intelligent than you can think
of and when they re-telecasted that same interview they basically cut out whatever that person was saying
and uh you know they they published a different version which had only the smaller segment where the
reporter was asking the question so even cnbc started playing up on some of the famous news channels started
playing up against this uh towards the end game but you know the the ultimate um you know end line was
that in a democracy for retail investors willing to take the risk
people basically saying they should be allowed to take the risk fair enough that some retail investors had no clue
what was happening they were basically buying gamestop at 300 350 which was not the actual value of
the company the company is definitely gamestop was definitely not worth 300
even at its peak it was probably you know fifty dollars or something like that but
it was definitely not worth three hundred dollars so anybody who's investing at three hundred dollars
trying to make a profit out of it probably you know taking a huge risk but stopping them
in the name of democracy stopping them in the name of protecting them and forcing them to sell it or you know
for selling the stocks that they own was completely against democracy that was not
protecting the retail investors that was basically protecting the hedge funds and it was very very clear as day and
night at the point of time when these uh when these brokers basically likes rob lobinhood they did
it and they lost face value they lost completely the faith of the retail
investors they were in fact the name was so ironic robin hood right and people were
trusting that they will actually side up with with retail investors like in uk free trade
sided up with retail investors so now comes to the second story right india's crypto bank
there is a [Music] proposed draft with the draft the bill
is at a very very draft stage right now so in the past indian government has tried
to ban the trading of cryptocurrency couple of times in 2018 in fact rba had sent a circular
to the indian banks that they should not provide services for any cryptocurrency trading which
means that if you wanted to even if you had access to a cryptocurrency exchange
you couldn't use your indian bank or debit card or credit card to go and buy it which meant that
majority of retail investors like you and me we were not allowed to trade in crypto during that point of time because
the indian banking institutions were prevented from providing services to buy or sell cryptocurrency so but if
people had access to the non-indian banks they were still allowed to trade legally because
trading of cryptocurrency was still legal in the country at that point of time
in fact um we all know that you know basically rich people and politicians and rich
people most of them have access to um outside india banks they have access to foreign banks
and they were easily able to buy or sell or trade in cryptocurrency whenever they wanted it was only the
the common man like us you know that was stopped from buying and selling cryptocurrency at that point of time
because of this rbi bank in 2019 there was a draft bill that was introduced which tried to make the cryptocurrency
completely illegal the full details of the draft bill is there in the internet i'll share it as well
they basically said even mining trading or even holding of cryptocurrency was going to be made as a punishable offense
that bill was was still in the draft stage it was never passed and there was probably no detail as to
why it didn't get eventually passed now in march 2020 last year supreme court ruled that the
rbi ban on the cryptocurrency support by the indian banks you know was unconstitutional they cancelled the ban
they basically said that a bank has to provide support for anything legally that the customer wants
to do if you haven't made cryptocurrency trading illegal
stopping the banks from providing services to it is not acceptable so that's what the supreme court ruling
said so which really meant that uh several indian cryptocurrency exchanges like wazirex
for example which was eventually bought by binance opened up and they became really trusted
easy trusted ways of buying cryptocurrencies than relying on people in unreliable
external people and it was it meant that it opened the gateway for so many indians to actually
legally buy and sell it which is what we've been doing in our cryptocurrency series so on 29 june 2021
uh lok sabha publishes their agenda on a daily basis there was a draft bill that was put into picture
so this is actually i'll show you the draft pill but this is the reddit forum basically
so uh in the bulletin that they had published it's it's available on the lok sabha
uh indian web page and i'll share the link as well so in this pdf um in page number 25 uh you know line
number number 12 our bulletin agenda number 12 there is a cryptocurrency in regulation
of official digital currency bill 2021 that has been listed down as um an item that needs to be discussed which
says that the bill seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in india
and it wants to uh you know facilitate framework for creation of a new cryptocurrency that is supported and
issued by rbi basically so what does it mean the details of the
the draft bill are not fully available so it is still in a draft stage it is not yet even discussed
in the lok sabha it is there in the bulletin agenda for discussion in the lok sabha
what it is proposing is basically a ban of all private cryptocurrencies which includes
everything like bitcoin ethereum xrp in fact somebody some people read it as privacy cryptocurrencies like monroe etc
but basically says private cryptocurrencies and today everything is a private cryptocurrency
what they are saying is only the government approved a government issued cryptocurrencies they are trying to
introduce a new regulated cryptocurrency for india which will be issued by the rbi controlled by
the rbi and the government will basically set what the prices are and they'll
basically control it um and that's the only thing that they want to basically allow this goes
against the the rights of any democratic country basically and no major democratic
country has implemented such a ban apart from you know few countries like nepal and pakistan probably have
have implemented such banks but no other countries have practically implemented a complete ban on cryptocurrency they've
regulated it taxed it but no country has completely banned it like this before so you know what can happen now you know
in the ruling party control majority parliament if the government wants to do something
in the parliament they want to pass the bill they can easily do it we all know that
it doesn't get discussed in the parliament if the leadership wants to do it they
just can't do it so there's the only thing that the the crypto actions can do is they can
launch a legal exchange but given the seriousness of the proposed ban
um i think it is fair enough to say that we should expect sufficient notices given so that people can
withdraw or they basically can then they can manage the crypto investments that they've done because
it's something that is huge if it is if it is completely banned it's going to be really huge in fact uh one
of my subscribers shared this on twitter where he sent a mail to wazirex and they came back
saying that they basically confirm there is no formal law if something like this happened if a
judgment gets passed there will be advance announcements and we will get time we're expecting
that we will get time to withdraw the funds or make sure that we are able to settle
but you know we all know the history of things in india like you know how the 500 rupees and thousand rupees not ban
and the ban basically was given like few hours of notice the national lockdown for kobe 19
had like few hours of notice couple of hours of notice i think two or three hours maybe
so it is best to be prepared for any scenario follow this draft bill follow the lok
sabha news follow the parliament discussions that are happening watch the news channels
very very closely keep connected to the updates from indian crypto channels follow wazirex on
twitter for example follow people um not just me if you're getting your news only from you know
a few people have said that they get a lot of the crypto news from me but don't rely on me alone because and this is not
my full-time job in fact i'm actually not i'm impacted by this whole news but i
just wanted to make sure that people understood it because i am not trading in india right now right i'm trading in
uk so it this doesn't impact me the least bit but still
i i was very concerned for the people a lot of people who trade in india are my subscribers i
was really concerned which is why i'm making this this video but i may not be able to post
quicker updates if something is announced within a few hours of notice so follow all those news channels
and follow wazirex like for example um nishal shetty who's the ceo of azeriks
he tweeted a few times in this weekend said that no progressive nation has actually banned crypto and he also said
that nearly seven million crypto holders are there in india with over one billion
dollars thousands and thousands of crores of money is invested by indians
in crypto assets so if they ban it overnight they'll basically erase this wealth completely overnight
so for these kind of people make sure that you get the news from all the sources that your you can get
but final words right so um legal challenges are said and all of
these things aside um you know in india if the government says that
they're going to do this to protect the retail investors that's the fine print they can actually do it and legal
challenge will not work because the government can always say that you know people there are so many
scam currencies like beldex coin for example there are so many scam currencies in the
in the in india especially and people abuse the cryptocurrency uh as a as an excuse and cheat people
from their money and if they if government um you know plays this card and says that they're
going to protect the retail investors and that's why they are doing it um even a legal appeal will not work and
if somebody had said that robin hood will will use that line to protect retail investors and
they will stop them from buying a share they will basically sell people shares without their
permission nobody would have believed them beginning of last week you know uh you know seven or ten ten
days back if somebody had even suggested that robin hood could do something like that nobody would have
believed it everybody loved robinhood at that point of time so but they did it and they eventually
did to protect their hedge funds but they ultimately use the excuse saying that
they're doing it to protect the retail investors so the government could eventually do
something like this they can use um the line to say that they're doing this to protect the retail investors and
nothing else and um and they can just go ahead and pass the bill but at the moment it is in
a draft stage at the moment we are hoping that there is rational discussions that happen
but you know be very very careful make sure that you have a liquidated exit strategy
which means that you are prepared for this like you know if the noteband were to happen today
um you know what needs to be done you kind of prepared for that scenario you you kept money at hand you kept like you
know um change in the in the house probably you know you're kind of prepared for a
notebook it can happen again right so be prepared for a crypto ban as well um not that
it will happen but in the eventuality that it might happen make sure that you write down a
liquidated exit strategy that you're prepared to sell it you know um and and just be ready that's
that's the best that we can do at this point of time and closely follow the news if they give
us advance notice make sure that we use the advanced notice as much as possible
and at the moment it has been a draft stage we haven't seen the details of it but it is seeking to prohibit all
private cryptocurrencies and the 2019 draft will basically say that you can't mine you can't hold
so even if it said that you can't trade you can still hold it at least in in custodial wallets and it doesn't have to
have an exchange it doesn't have to have a login and um you could you could basically by
keeping gold in your house right you could do it in like custodial wallets like that you could
put it in a usb key and it won't even be on any device or it won't be online but if they if the draft bill
says that you can't even hold it legally and it's a punishable offense then it's a complete different scenario
so we need to basically be very very carefully monitoring how this scenario uh turns up and
this is a story if you are invested in cryptocurrency in india then you need to be really really paying
attention to the development of the story i will try and make as much pro i'll provide clarity as much
as possible in twitter i'll try and provide it quicker in video i might probably
struggle to make it quicker if especially if it's only a few hours of notice so
hopefully this content was useful to you and hopefully now you are able to relate the two stories in your mind at least
and until next time thank you bye
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