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Gold, Silver & Alternative Investments · Unit 4
Digital Assets
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What this unit covers
Get a neutral overview of what digital assets are, how extremely volatile they are, and why their regulatory status in India is unsettled. It explains, it does not advise.
By the end you will be able to
- Explain what a digital asset is and why decentralization sets it apart from the rupee.
- Interpret a sharp price swing as a sign of uncertainty rather than opportunity.
- Describe India's current regulatory stance on digital assets as unsettled.
How it starts: A Confident Claim at Tea
- A message in your family group calls a digital asset the future of money.
- Another reply calls the same digital asset a total scam.
- You have never studied a digital asset, so which claim, if any, is true?
Words you will meet
- Digital asset
- A form of value that exists only digitally and is not issued or backed by a bank or government.
- Cryptocurrency
- A common name for a digital asset recorded and moved through a decentralized computer network.
- Decentralization
- No single company, bank, or government controls the asset.
- Volatility
- How sharply and quickly a price moves up or down.
In this module: Gold, Silver & Alternative Investments
- Why Gold Matters
- Silver & Industrial Metals
- REITs & InvITs
- Digital Assets (this unit)
- Real Estate as an Asset Class
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