Prasos runs websites such as Coinmotion.com and Bittiraha.fi, through which retail investors can exchange Bitcoins into euros
The price of Bitcoin had fallen more than 13 percent in the 24 hours to 1030 GMT on Friday
Japan's Financial Services Agency ordered two exchanges to halt operations for a month and penalized four others on Thursday
The measures come amid a boom in the price of bitcoin, the world's best known cryptocurrency.
The average number of trades recorded daily has roughly dropped in half from the December highs
The current mining process is indeed resource-intensive and wasteful, but there is no magic fix in sight
Cryptocurrency has become an increasingly discussed topic among jihadist groups in the Middle East
Today's collapse was fuelled by a flood of speculators looking to make a quick buck
Other cryptocurrencies also suffered double-digit declines in their prices on Monday, according to industry tracker Coinmarketcap.com
The price of Bitcoin on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange has now fallen by more than half from a peak of almost $20,000 hit in December
Digital currencies have quickly grown into a more mainstream asset class
At present, there is no available data on the quantum of Bitcoin transactions by Indian companies, something which the ICAI study will delve into
In the last 3 months of 2017, almost $150 bn was processed in transactions - nearly 10 times more than a year earlier and seven times higher than what Western Union moves among consumers in a quarter
All the world's digital tokens are worth only about $700 billion
The most genuinely worrying thing that might happen in 2018 is armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula
Even at the country's highest regulated electricity tariff, miners can profit from bitcoin as long as it's worth more than $6,925
Speculative fervor makes the cryptocurrency clumsy for commerce
Bitcoin has had global central banks so worried that several are now mulling regulating the currency, legalising it, or evolving their own crypto currencies
Arun Jaitley emphasised that the Centre's consistent position was that such currencies were not legal tender
Digital currency was last up almost 10% at $15,300.00 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange