Thursday, November 26, 2020

A millennial crypto victory bigger than the price of Bitcoin

Sathvik Vishwanath and Harish BV, cofounders of a then five-year-old startup, were arrested in late 2018. No, they hadn’t pulled off a shady initial coin offering. Their “crime” was that they put up a kiosk in a mall in Bangalore where customers could swap Bitcoin, Ether or Ripple for cash or vice versa. That was the whole point of Unocoin, their crypto token exchange. But the police were suspicious of the new-fangled “ATM.”

source https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/a-millennial-crypto-victory-bigger-than-the-price-of-bitcoin/articleshow/79439681.cms

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