Digital currencies on India's exchanges slumped amid heavy selling on Wednesday a day after the government announced a new bill that would ban most private cryptocurrencies.
The government will allow only certain cryptocurrencies to promote the underlying technology and its uses, according to a legislative agenda released late on Tuesday for the winter session of Parliament set to start this month.
The bill, if passed, would effectively ban citizens in India from transacting in most cryptocurrencies.
The dollar-linked stable coin tether (USDT) slumped 25 per cent to nearly 60 rupees (€0.72) on Wednesday after news of the bill, according to Naimish Sanghvi, a cryptocurrency investor.
WazirX, one of India's largest cryptocurrency exchanges said
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