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BITCOIN:   a  new-age Digital Currency What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is new-age digital currency used as medium of exchange which uses cryptography to control its creation and management. It’s decentralised in nature i.e., no central authority or institution controls its network and allows the users to spend the money anonymously. It involves transfer of currency by sending an e-mail or text message to a person using a wallet app and typing the details of recipient. It is called as cryptocurrency as it uses a different encrypted code for every single transaction. Cryptography is an art of writing and solving codes. Thus, each letter or word or any component of the language can be mapped to arbitrary characters, letters, pixels and numbers so that it is not readable without the proper key. One can use real money to buy bitcoins. Let’s understand bitcoin mining now. What is Bitcoin Mining? Bitcoin mining is a complex computing and mathematical process by which the bitcoin miners brin...

On 12 January 2021, the Supreme Court of India took up the petition filed by Dr. Nilakshi Choudhury, Advocate, Supreme Court, on behalf of the aggrieved advocates and public at large for the reopening of all courts in the country including the Supreme Court of India. A three judge bench headed by the CJI S.A. Bobde, observed that the decision to convene Court proceedings via video conferencing is taken after extensive deliberations with medical experts. The Petitioner-in-Person pleaded that advocates and their staff are not able to pay their rent and are unable to maintain their livelihood. Also, hearing through Video conferencing is a violation to Article 145(4) that clearly states, “ No Judgement shall be delivered by the Supreme Court save in open court and no report shall be made under Article 143 save accordance with an opinion also delivered in open court”. The petitioner also quoted the judgement Naresh Shridhar Mirajkar and Ors vs. State of Maharashtra and Anr., 1966, whi...