From getting caught in scams to a sparking hope in an income-less home, cryptocurrency is changing the lives of small-town India one holding at a time.
About 100 km away from the bustling streets of Indore is a small town called Kukshi where government officials slumber away in the afternoons. At the outset, it is a simple town where not much happens besides bursts of gully cricket in the streets and families carrying on with their business.
That’s no longer the case. This small town of barely 30,000 inhabitants has a new obsession: cryptocurrency. Everyone from teens to senior citizens are hooked on it, tells me 34-year-old Mustafa, who has been living here for a few years now.
He’s the local soothsayer for all things crypto …
Akanksha is a former writer at The Morning Context, who covered the cryptocurrency industry and other new technology. Her main area of interest is exploring the vast intersection between businesses and culture in the internet age. Previously, she was an associate sub-editor at Moneycontrol, the online financial news publication owned by Network18.
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