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Learn crypto.Keep your judgment.
Clear, practical guides for understanding crypto without pretending risk disappears. Begin with the foundations, then go deeper into Indian tax, P2P bank risk, wallets, transfers, and safer platform use.
01 / Start here
Beginner learning path
Eight lessons in a deliberate order—from understanding Bitcoin through buying, custody, tax, scam prevention, and a safe exit.
What Bitcoin and crypto are
Understand blockchains, Bitcoin, crypto assets, transactions, supply, price, and what ownership really means.
Exchanges versus wallets
Separate trading platforms from wallet software and understand who controls access in each custody model.
Buying your first crypto safely
Prepare the account, evaluate the platform, control the amount, place an order, and preserve your first records.
Networks and address selection
Match the asset, blockchain network, address, memo, and destination before making an irreversible transfer.
Self-custody and seed phrases
Learn what self-custody changes, how recovery phrases control assets, and how to build a safer backup routine.
Calculate Indian crypto tax
Work through VDA income, 30% tax, cess, TDS credit, losses, Schedule VDA records, and when to seek professional help.
Common crypto scams
Recognize fake support, impersonation, investment traps, wallet drainers, recovery scams, and P2P fraud.
Selling and withdrawing safely
Plan the sale, verify the withdrawal route, protect the bank transfer, and keep the final tax and transaction evidence.
02 / Go deeper
Supporting field guides
Use CryptooChai reporting as a starting point, then apply a repeatable checklist to your own accounts, records, and decisions.
Start with crypto, without skipping the safety steps
A calm first path through crypto, exchanges, wallets, transfers, risk, and the questions to answer before using real money.
Wallets, networks, and safer crypto transfers
Learn custody, seed phrases, address checks, blockchain networks, approvals, test transfers, and recovery limits.
P2P crypto: a checklist before you release funds
A practical guide to payment-name mismatches, edited receipts, off-platform pressure, third-party accounts, and evidence.
How to research an exchange before transferring crypto
A repeatable way to examine access, withdrawals, custody, fees, support, incident history, and personal concentration risk.
Build crypto records you can still understand at tax time
Create a durable evidence trail across exchanges, wallets, deposits, withdrawals, trades, TDS, and fees.
P2P bank freezes, liens, and mule-account risk
Understand why a matching bank credit can still lead to a lien or freeze, how to reduce exposure, and what evidence to prepare.
Is crypto legal in India? What FIU registration means
Separate tax treatment, PMLA reporting, FIU registration, legal tender, banking checks, and government endorsement.
Which crypto transactions are taxable in India?
Classify sales, swaps, spending, gifts, rewards, mining, airdrops, own-wallet movements, and later disposals.
Wallet signatures, token approvals, and drainers
Separate connections, transactions, allowances, permits, message signatures, revocation, and recovery-secret theft.
What to do when an exchange freezes withdrawals
Identify the scope, preserve balances and records, use verified escalation routes, and avoid fake unlock payments.
Stablecoin risks: reserves, depegs, and networks
Map issuer, reserve, redemption, liquidity, smart-contract, network, bridge, and regulatory risk.
Crypto inheritance and emergency access
Connect the asset inventory, legal authority, secure recovery path, instructions, evidence, and maintenance plan.
Hardware wallets: what they protect
Understand key isolation, device verification, recovery backups, supply-chain checks, and remaining signing risks.
How to fill Schedule VDA in ITR-2 and ITR-3
Prepare transaction-wise acquisition, transfer, consideration, cost, income and TDS records for AY 2026–27.
Crypto TDS in India: 1%, Form 141, 26AS and refunds
Separate TDS from final VDA tax and understand thresholds, statements, credits, Form 141 and the 2026 transition.
USDT tax in India: buying, selling, swaps and P2P
Classify USDT purchases, sales, swaps, spending, transfers and P2P trades before calculating VDA income and TDS.
How to report a crypto scam in India
Act quickly, preserve evidence, call 1930, use the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal and secure remaining accounts.
How to check an exchange’s FIU registration claim
Verify the legal entity and official evidence while understanding what FIU reporting-entity registration does—and does not—mean.
Best international crypto exchanges for Indian users
Compare Binance, KuCoin and Bybit through current India-specific compliance, INR, TDS, withdrawal and record-keeping evidence.
Ledger CryptoBilis hack: what buyers should know
Reported device tampering, affected-buyer precautions, fresh recovery phrases and what remains under investigation.