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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are looking shakier from a regulatory standpoint on reports that India’s central bank is cracking down. But Wall Street still sees plenty of profit for exchanges like
Coinbase Global
and others in the crypto economy as “staking” digital tokens opens up new revenue streams.
The latest regulatory hurdle for crypto appears to be India, where the Reserve Bank of India, or RBI, is “informally asking” banks to avoid digital currency transactions, Reuters reports.
Indian banks have been in a quandary over crypto; the RBI banned crypto transactions in 2018, but the Indian