India no está en contra de la tecnología blockchain, pero la criptomoneda debe ser monitoreada, dice FM

India no está en contra de la tecnología blockchain, pero la criptomoneda debe ser monitoreada, dice FM

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India is not against blockchain technology, but currencies have to be monitored by either the government or the central bank, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. 

Ver artículo relacionado: India impone regulaciones de lavado de dinero en la criptoindustria

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  • “[Blockchain] nos brinda muchas opciones. Se puede utilizar de muchas maneras diferentes. Así que no estamos en contra de la tecnología”, Sitharaman dijo at an event in Bengaluru. 
  • “But on currency, we think [it] has to be driven by either the government or the central bank. Otherwise, it can be like those that have collapsed, causing huge spillover effects all over the world, like FTX," ella dijo.
  • The Reserve Bank of India, the nation’s central bank, has launched pilot trials for retail and wholesale central bank digital currencies. According to Sitharaman, the digital rupee intends to improve cross-border and bulk payments to minimize losses on arbitrage.
  • India, el mundo país más poblado, is aiming for a global consensus in regulating crypto assets. 
  • “Global order has become so interlinked that one country taking any step when it comes to regulating crypto assets will be ineffective because technology doesn’t care for boundaries or borders,” Sitharaman dijo
  • The South Asian nation is also looking to prepare students on cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. It has announced the introduction of these topics in certain school curriculums from the next academic year. 
  • India has been tackling digital assets with caution. Last year, Sitharaman imposed un impuesto fijo del 30% sobre ingresos criptográficos y un 1% de impuestos deducidos en la fuente (TDS) en transacciones criptográficas por encima de 10,000 122 rupias indias (US$XNUMX). 
  • India tampoco permite que los comerciantes de criptomonedas compensar pérdidas against gains. It has introduced a penalty equivalente a TDS por no deducción, intereses del 15% anual por mora e incluso prisión de hasta seis meses.  
  • India is currently the president of Group of 20, an intergovernmental forum of the world’s major economies,  and has listed cryptocurrency and its regulation as one of the agendas for discussion. 
  • Ver artículo relacionado: El marco regulatorio común para las criptomonedas llegará durante la presidencia del G20 de la India, dice el ministro de finanzas

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