Bitcoins are business as usual in Bengaluru

One can pay for food, bus tickets, order stuff or shopping vouchers of companies online, get haircut

There is nothing about Indiranagar, Bengaluru’s middle class suburb, to suggest subversion might be brewing here. Least of all at the Suryawanshi restaurant, an open-air dhaba-type establishment, which serves authentic Maharashtrian food: misal-pav, fragrant lavender-coloured sol kadi and batata vada. You can pay using good ol’ cash, credit card, mobile wallet... and also bitcoin. Suyawanshi reported its first bitcoin transaction last month.

“A group of people came. They had a mutton thali, prawn sukka masala, misal-pav and some other items. The bill came to around Rs 1,700. They wanted to pay in bitcoin,” said Prafesh, part owner and server at