“The government does not recognise cryptocurrency as legal tender or coin and will take all measures to eliminate the use of these cryptoassets in financing illegitimate activities or as part of the payments system,” Jaitley said.

He also said te govt will proactively look into the blockchain technology.( the same blockchian good but bitcoin bad story that politicians around the world say! ignorant people)

Nowhere he said that cryptocurrencies are illegal.. he only said that it is not legal tender, which he has said some time before too.

stupid presstitutes, corrupt media twisting words to create sensationalism so that people click and read the article.

let us have a good discussion on what FM said..