Cryptocurrency in Pakistan today | Jan 22, 2022 | Personal Opinion | The people of Pakistan are desperately looking for better investment opportunities.
The absence of a regulatory regime has made global cryptocurrency exchange a dangerous path to tread. According to reports, Pakistani investors have lost nearly a hundred million dollars in Digital currencies. The cybercrime wing of the Sindh FIA has launched an investigation against multiple mobile apps linked to Binance, which is one of the largest global crypto exchanges in the world.
It appears that the environment is entirely unsafe for such investment, and people are easily falling prey to the temptation of making an easy buck. When such frauds take place, it is easy to blame the victim as the government had done in so many other cases, but the real onus lies with regulators of such transactions. In this case, the security and exchange corporation (SECP) should have sprung into action much earlier, but failed to do so. The state bank of Pakistan should also be regulated not only the corporate sector but also keeping an eye on the finances being traded.
The failure of regulation has done much harm to unsuspecting investors who needed clear guidance and instruction about how to invest in crypto-currency, if at all. Understandably, due to uncertainties within Pakistani market, and with the rapidly depreciating rupee, the people of Pakistan are desperately looking for better investment opportunities.
The number of Pakistani interested in such investment had increased exponentially in the past couple of years. Crypto business promises huge returns on investment that is hard to come by informal channels of putting your money to good use. There is also a rapidly spiralling number of online sites that claim to ‘facilitate’ such investment in virtual currencies.
