New Delhi December 12 2021: mised,” the prime minister’s office has said.
A swiftly deleted tweet from his main @narendramodi handle declared India had adopted Bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens.
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It said the Indian government had officially bought 500 Bitcoins and was “distributing them to all residents of the country”, along with a scam link.
The matter was escalated to Twitter and the prime minister’s personal Twitter handle was immediately secured, Modi’s office wrote in a tweet late on Saturday.
Any tweet shared during the brief period when the account was compromised must be ignored, it said.
