India, Nov. 7 -- In a small internet cafe in Srinagar, two friends discuss "the next big coin." One of them shows an app on his phone, with graph rising in steep green lines.

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This is a familiar scene in Kashmir these days. The youth, fluent in digital language and eager for opportunity, have found in cryptocurrency an alluring promise of fast wealth.

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