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Crypto Trading Booms in Small Cities as Job Growth, Incomes Disappoint
Mint Mumbai
|February 26, 2025
Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies by attending classes every weekday for the past two months in his home city of Nagpur in western India.
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Nagose bought and sold stock options earlier but is now venturing into cryptocurrencies as regulators have made it harder to trade equity derivatives in India. The 28-year-old believes the red-hot crypto asset class can help shield his family-owned flower shop during downturns.
"I want to run my family shop, and hope that trading can provide a steady income when business slows down, like in the month after (the Hindu festival of) Diwali," he said, seated at the storefront surrounded by bunches of red roses and orange marigolds.
This story is from the February 26, 2025 edition of Mint Mumbai.
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