Recently while I was in Uttarakhand, I had an interesting conversation with an old friend that got me thinking about how we approach cryptocurrencies.  My friend is a mountaineer by profession, born and brought up in a small village in the Uttarkashi district. On learning about her ambitious goals, I asked her if she invested, and where. To this, she said that she has a few fixed deposits. But the conversation quickly moved from FDs to mutual funds to equities to crypto (just like any investment conversation these days). And when it came to crypto, I saw her enthusiasm peak. Her viewpoint on this was, “It’s the fastest way to become a crorepati”.   This got me thinking. How many of us ...