The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) banking ban on cryptocurrencies in India is having less impact than the government anticipated as more exchanges go back to work.
Three exchanges have announced the return of Indian rupee (INR) deposits, contrary to the government ruling in July, which effectively removed INR deposits and made withdrawals illegal. Petitions against the current ruling are up for Supreme Court scrutiny later next week. On 12 September, Koinex announced rupee deposits and withdrawals were now back in operation at their exchange, referring, rather romantically, to the “old times”:
“We are happy to announce the revival of INR in the crypto universe through a new peer-to-peer deposit and withdrawal mechanism for INR transactions… Just like the old times, users will be able to deposit and withdraw funds directly from their INR wallets.”
Another exchange, Coindelta, is back to business as usual too with an equally folksy announcement on their website:
“We have resumed back the INR deposits and withdrawals on Coindelta. Not only this, your old favorite INR markets are back where you can trade with your INR.”
Two other platforms, Koindesk and Giottus, are back too, the latter with a peer-to-peer (P2P) system, allowing its users to withdraw rupees. P2P has become a way that many exchanges have developed for their own homemade way of operating. Exchanges now using a P2P system for accessing and spending their rupees include WazirX, Intashift, and Coind.
WazirX head Nischal Shetty suggested that the exchange was seeing more that one match per minute through its P2P facility, with trading increasing daily, proving that crypto is very much alive and well on the subcontinent.
Rahul Chitale of Instashift said: “Since the last set of RBI-related developments in the past couple of months, we have continued to see strong 20-25% growth in trading volumes month on month over the last 2 quarters of our operation.”
In the meantime, Dabba growths in strength, profiting from the RBI ban. Working via the messaging app Telegram, with money as cash routed through the various channels in the hawala system. The money then passes either officially or unofficially to the foreign account where Bitcoins are transacted. Payment is then made in cash or check and the deal is done: no exchange, no Indian bank.
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