Officials are confident of getting the bill enacted into law as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government holds a comfortable majority in parliament
The world's most popular cryptocurrency slipped as low as $58,956.90 early in the Asian session, falling from Saturday's record high of $61,781.83
Bitcoin, the world's biggest and earlier cryptocurrency, has crossed a record high of $60,000.
Bitcoin is up about 1,000% in the past year amid signs of increasing institutional interest as well as speculative demand
Various media reports cited that Metakova is a pseudonym of the investor, which means King of Meta in the Tamil language
The cryptocurrency has been on a tear in recent months
The world's largest digital asset rose as much as 5.2% before trading around $57,000
An NFT is a unique token added to some digital construct and registered on a blockchain with details of ownership
Industry body IAMAI on Wednesday appealed to the Indian government to not ban cryptocurrency and develop a robust mechanism to regulate the related ecosystem in the country.
Evercore technical analysis suggests prices could hit $75,000
The market has flourished despite complicated official attitudes towards cryptocurrencies in China
Tesla Inc's $1.5 billion bitcoin bet saw it join business software firm MicroStrategy Inc and Twitter boss Jack Dorsey's payments company Square Inc in swapping some traditional cash reserves for the
Shares of Good Works rose 15.9% to $11.59 after markets opened for trading on Friday.
The spike came in the wake of Tesla's $1.5 billion bitcoin bet
Many view bitcoin as a good inflation hedge
Inner Mongolia plans to shut all such operations by April
The trading desk reboot comes amid growing interest by institutions in bitcoin, which has soared more than 470% over the past year
Bitcoin is still up more than five times over the past year, a divisive rally pitting believers in a new asset class against naysayers who see a speculative bubble
Bitcoin dropped 6.39% to $43,165.78 on Sunday, losing $2,944.20 from its previous close.
The sell-off echoed that in equity markets