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Millennials pick bitcoins over gold

Bitcoin is also a hot topic in Mumbai locals

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Rajesh Bhayani Mumbai
Twenty-year-old Sahil Shah, a business administration student at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, started dabbling in bitcoin investments four years ago, and has been an avid investor ever since. 

After a correction Bitcoin began its rally once again on Friday and touched $18,000. And for many millennials, bitcoin, and not gold, is becoming a symbol of store of value.

Shah, who submitted his university research project on the cryptocurrency, says bitcoin is a hot topic at their canteen and on WhatsApp. He and his friends, however, are not looking at it as a speculative asset or a bubble and are trying to understand the