Tesla recorded a sharp decline in its stock after Musk tweeted on Saturday last week saying Bitcoin and Ether prices \"do seem high\" .This also led to a major fall in world's biggest cryptocurrency Bitcoin's price

Bitcoin's meteroic started with signs that it is gaining acceptance among mainstream investors and companies, from Tesla Inc and Mastercard Inc to BNY Mellon

Sensex and Nifty fell sharply today, led by selling pressure in the auto and banking sectors. The broader mood of the market turned bearish last week, after a few days of the lacklustre movement

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Access to US stocks has become simpler, but one must keep an eye on the cost aspect

Stocks like Nio, Tesla, Peloton Interactive and Etsy have gained 1, 900 per cent, 645 per cent, 515 per cent and 485 per cent, respectively in last nine months

As central banks look at digital currencies, this emerging technology will soon be hard to ignore

Share Market Update: Sensex ended 2,713 points lower at 31,390 and Nifty closed 756 points lower at 9,199.

The SFIO arrested Bhushan Steel promoter Neeraj Singhal for allegedly siphoning off Rs 2,000 crore; Sensex closed above 38,000 for the first time ever on Thursday; and bitcoin and crypto-currency bashing continues unabated. BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey explains this and more on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Many have explicitly stated that Bitcoins have no legal status as currency, but allow its trading and tax gains out of it. They also allow it to be converted into the country's currency through mutual consent between two parties, without giving an official standing to it. In a sense, it is treated like other precious commodities like gold, silver or diamonds.

This is another step towards making good Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's promise of a comprehensive central legislation to deal with the menace of illicit deposit-taking schemes made in his Budget Speech two years ago.

Last month, Goldman Sachs' Investment Strategy Group pointed out that Bitcoin's meteoric rise had dwarfed the rise seen in the dotcom bubble in its annual economic and investment Outlook for 2018.

This crash comes six weeks after Bitcoin hit USD 19,511.

Since the beginning of 2018, crypto-currencies are on adownward slope. According to a report by Bloomberg, the entire digital currencyhas lost 30 per cent in value in January alone.

Will 2018 see Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies become part of normal retail investors' portfolios on a wide scale? Whether it would happen and if it happens, how quickly will it happen?

There is a real and heightened risk of investment bubble of the type seen in Ponzi schemes which can result in sudden and prolonged crash exposing investors, especially retail consumers losing their hard-earned money, the Finance Ministry said.

Demand in India for Bitcoins, a virtual currency maintained by peer networks, is largely from speculators - as it is worldwide.