{"id":921360,"date":"2025-04-11T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921360"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:11:11","slug":"are-keralas-youths-getting-lured-by-crypto-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/11\/are-keralas-youths-getting-lured-by-crypto-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Kerala&#8217;s youths getting lured by crypto craze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sujit Alexander (name changed), 24, works at a global tech giant\u2019s Bengaluru office and earns around Rs 3 lakh per month \u2014 among the highest in his age group in the country. He channels a large chunk of his income into mutual fund SIPs, gold ETFs, and equities, mostly through IPOs. But what stands out in his portfolio is a modest allocation to cryptocurrencies. <\/p>\n<p>In Kochi, final-year engineering students are actively discussing crypto investments. \u201cThe best part about crypto is that you can start with as little as Rs 100,\u201d says one, adding that credibility often hinges on who backs the digital asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sujit Alexander (name changed), 24, works at a global tech giant\u2019s Bengaluru office and earns around Rs 3 lakh per month \u2014 among the highest in his age group in the country. He channels a large chunk of his income into mutual fund SIPs, gold ETFs, and equities, mostly through IPOs. But what stands out in his portfolio is a modest allocation to cryptocurrencies. In Kochi, final-year engineering students are actively discussing crypto investments. \u201cThe best part about crypto is that you can start with as little as Rs 100,\u201d says one, adding that credibility often hinges on who backs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}