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They say if stardom had a face, it would resemble Shah Rukh Khan. Amongst all the self-made millionaires the World cherishes, Shah Rukh Khan is one of the most precious ones. From being an unrecognized television actor to ruling the Indian film industry for decades, Shah Rukh Khan has lived life from rags to riches.

If you were to calculate his popularity, you might consider an interview of renowned pop star Zayn Malik, in which he talked about a popular award show and shared how lucky he felt to share the event with Shah Rukh Khan and how much he fanboyed him.

Personal Details:

Early life:

Shah Rukh Khan was born on 2 November 1965 in New Delhi to Meer Taj Mohammed Khan and Lateef Fatima. His father worked in the theatre and was a writer while his mother was a teacher. Shah Rukh Khan spent a major period of his childhood with his maternal grandfather Iftikhar Ahmed, who was a chief engineer of the port in Mangalore. 

His father ventured into several businesses along with the theatre, like a restaurant. The family was financially modest and lived in a rented apartment in the Rajendra Nagar area of New Delhi. Shah Rukh Khan was sent to the St. Columba’s School. He always performed well in academics but it was Acting and performing arts that made him the happiest. Khan was also an excellent sportsman at school but had suffered a shoulder injury that stopped him from participating in sports any further. 

After the injury, Khan joined the theatre and started investing his time in plays. He also pursued a graduate degree in economics from Hansraj College. He later joined Delhi’s Theatre Action Group (TAG), where he was mentored by Barry John who was a theatre director and the man who encouraged Shah Rukh Khan towards acting. 

Shah Rukh Khan pursued a master’s degree in mass communication from Jamia Millia Islamia but couldn’t complete it since he found his passion in Acting. While he was working for television he also joined the National School of Drama and worked there for several years. Shah Rukh was discovered by Hema Malini, through his show “Fauji” which aired on DD national. 

Personal life:

Shah Rukh is an avid fan of football and cricket. His love for cricket is evident from the fact that he bought Kolkata knight riders in IPL and managed to attend all their matches, despite his super-packed schedule. Shah Rukh is also a successful Businessman and owns Red chilies production house. 

Talking about his love life, Shah Rukh proudly shared that he has loved (romantically) only one woman to date and that is his wife Gauri Khan (Chibbar before marriage). 

Shah Rukh and Gauri met through a mutual friend at a party and Shah Rukh fell in love with Gauri. He pursued her for a long time. Soon, Gauri came to Bombay with her parents. A devastated Shah Rukh bought the tickets to Bombay along with his friends, in the hope to find Gauri. He kept roaming around the beaches but Gauri was nowhere to be found. Finally, Shah Rukh lost all hope and wanted to check just one last beach before he left for home. To his luck and surprise, he found Gauri on the beach and proposed to her. 

The two dated for a long time and finally, in 1991, they married each other. After marriage, Gauri and Shah Rukh came to Bombay and Shah Rukh started taking up some small roles in movies and on television. 

Shah Rukh’s name has been linked to several actresses throughout his career but he has always proved that there is no one who could win him over from his wife.

Career:

In 1992, with his lady luck by his side, Shah Rukh made his debut in Hema Malini’s directorial venture “Deewana”. In Deewana, he was cast as the third lead, the first two being Divya Bharti and Rishi Kapoor. Shah Rukh in the initial days of his Bollywood career played antagonist roles in movies like Darr, Bazigar, and Anjaam. 

Finally, on the advice of Yash Chopra, he started taking up romantic roles despite the fact that he never thought romance suited him. He did super hit movies like Dilwale dulhania Le Jayenge, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Kuch Kuch Hota hai, Veer Zara, etc. In his career of more than three decades, Shah Rukh Khan has bagged 4+ Filmfare awards and several rewards for being the sheer talent he is. He has been rewarded with the highest civilian awards like Padma Shri in 2005, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and Légion d’honneur in 2014.

Appearance:

Shah Rukh Khan is 1.73 meters tall and weighs 75 kgs. He has a tall stature and a muscular physique. He has black hair, fair skin, and dark brown eyes. His dimpled cheek has been the heartthrob feature of his personality.

Shah Rukh Khan Net worth:

With a stack of super hit movies in his backpack, as an actor and a producer, Shah Rukh Khan’s net worth is Rs. 5067 crores. Shah Rukh cleared in one of his interviews that does not charge much for acting in movies. Instead, he produces them and it is the profit earned from the movies that he gets as a producer.

EndNote:

Born on 2 November 1965, in New Delhi, India, Shah Rukh Khan is the winner of the highest civilian honors like Padma Shri in 2005, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and Légion d’honneur in 2014. An actor, producer, and popular television personality, he is counted amongst one of the richest actors in the world. Shah Rukh Khan’s net worth is  Rs. 5067 crores. His home Mannat is a major tourist attraction in Mumbai, which speaks quite a lot about his popularity.

E-commerce frauds are no more a news to the world, especially when as a country alone, we have had fraudsters like Vijay Mallya, Neerav Modi, and Amit Bharadwaj who took advantage of the loopholes in our economic system and banking sector and imposed the country and its people into a deep pit financial crisis.

 Amit K Bharadwaj is the CEO of GB Miners, better known for being a fraudster. In 2013, he built the first Indian e-commerce website that accepted Bitcoins or cryptocurrency, in exchange for the items sold to its customers. The website was named highkart.com. He has also been known for his ventures like Amaze Mining and Research Limited. 

Personal Details:

Early life:

There isn’t much information known about Amit K Bharadwaj’s early life. He maintained a very low profile lifestyle and his life wasn’t a subject of the public eye before he committed the fraud. According to what his documents say, he was born on January 17, 1983, in Maharashtra. As a child, he was sent to one of the branches of  Kendriya Vidyalaya in Maharashtra. 

After completing his schooling, he attended the Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College of Engineering and Technology to pursue his graduation in engineering. His College was in Nanded, Maharashtra, from where he is believed to have completed his Btech degree in Computer Science and engineering. He attended the Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s College of Engineering and Technology from 2000-2004.

He managed to save his family and friends from the public eye and media and therefore, nothing much is known about them. 

The promulgator of cryptocurrency in India:

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Amit K Bharadwaj is believed to be one of the very first people who introduced and promoted cryptocurrency in India. He understood how it was a very foreign subject for us as a country that still worked on paper currency. To lure the interests of people towards his subject and to fulfill his purpose, he threw yacht parties and showed off his wealth to the world. When everyone couldn’t digest the fact that a regular businessman was making so much money, he would open his cards and promote his ideas and schemes before them.

People say he was such a good businessman that not only did he manage to bring people to his schemes and invest in them but he even pursued many of them in taking heavy loans from the banks and investing in his schemes. He opened companies like AmazeMiners, GBMiners, CoinBank, Blockchain Research Ltd, and GainBitcoin and even launched a crypto token named MCAP. 

He promised people that for all the investments they would make in Bitcoin, they would be provided with an interest of 10% every month for 18 months. Soon after the scheme was promoted and bought by various people across the country, Amit K Bharadwaj went missing, leading to a major stir in most people’s lives.

Career:

In 2013, Amit K Bharadwaj launched a website which sold different items. The USP of this website was the fact that it was the first Indian e-commerce website to accept bitcoins in exchange for the products they sold. Amit Bhardwaj even wrote and published several books on cryptocurrency, promoting it and selling the idea, how it was the future of the world’s economy.

In 2016, he founded companies like Amaze Mining & Blockchain Research Ltd, which was an Alt-coin Mining Technology firm. In the same year, Amit also founded GBMiners, which was an Indian Bitcoin Mining Pool. People who invested in the website in some or another way, found out sometime later that the website was a fraud.

Coins bank was another company in his name that was founded around the same year. It was a Safe Bitcoin Wallet and yet another fraud company that had been opened to loot people. He used to name his companies in such a way that they sounded like other popular companies and people might confuse them with the other, therefore giving them the benefit of confusion. Amit Bharadwaj also invested in companies like Airbitz, Alpha Point, Air Selfie, Rock Miner and 1Hash.

Where is he now?

After his fraud business was busted open before the world, 12 FIRs were filed against him. Four of them in Delhi NCR, one FIR in Chandigarh, two in Pune, and one in Mumbai, Thane, Nanded, Bengaluru, and Kolkata. After following the due course of the legal act, Amit k Bharadwaj was finally arrested on March 30, 2018, in Bangkok.

Even after his arrest, the chargesheets kept being filed against him across various cities of India like Pune, Chandigarh, Mumbai, and Delhi. Bharadwaj along with his lawyers kept filing for bails across several courts in the country but was denied bail each time.

Bharadwaj kept avoiding the dates of court and put forward his ill health as an excuse for running away from the court. He has used the same excuse to get bail but has failed each time. 

Net worth:

Amit Bharadwaj’s net worth is $1.86 Billion and has been a result of the several fraud companies that he had opened in his name. The fraudster rests in jail while there a countless charge sheets filed against him across the country.

EndNote:

Amit K Bharadwaj is the CEO of GB Miners, better known for being a fraudster. In 2013, he built the first Indian e-commerce website that accepted Bitcoins or cryptocurrency, in exchange for the items sold to its customers. The website was named highkart.com. In 2016, he founded companies like Amaze Mining & Blockchain Research Ltd, which was an Alt-coin Mining Technology firm.

 He promised people that for all the investments they would make in Bitcoin, they would be provided with an interest of 10% every month for 18 months. Soon after the scheme was promoted and bought by various people across the country, Amit K Bharadwaj went missing and the truth was busted open that Bharadwaj was a fraudster.

Currency has been one of the most ancient inventions of our civilization. The caveman used a barter system to acquire the goods and services they required. As part of it, they exchanged goods with each other depending upon their needs. For instance, if an individual required oranges and had apples. They would trade their apples with the person who had oranges and wanted apples. 

The barter system had countless loopholes and was quite complex to carry out. Some of the basic criteria based on which it lagged were, to use the barter system, you had to find a person having the commodity you want and you should have had the commodity that might interest the other person. 

There has to be a common ground to compare two different commodities, which the barter system clearly lacked. You cannot always split a commodity into pieces, depending upon your needs. What if an animal is supposed to be traded but not as a whole. You cannot trade an alive animal into pieces. All these commodities can’t be carried with you everywhere and therefore it won’t help you every time. 

A minted form of currency was brought into play in 110 BC and it was followed by the era of gold-plated florins in 1250 AD. After 1600 AD, paper currency occupied all businesses. The introduction of currency brought a drastic improvement in trade and made it a smoother process. 

As time passed, several developments were made in the department of currency and gradually, economists came up with the concept of digital currency. It allowed people to transfer their money to another person in their bank accounts and with just one click. As quick and efficient as this system was, it imposed a great threat of digital theft. And hence, the concept of cryptocurrency was proposed before the world to safeguard the transaction of money and its transfer from the sender to the receiver. 

What is cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency presents online or digital currency that can be exchanged on online portals in exchange for the commodities provided by them. Several companies have come up with their own cryptocurrency. So if you want to buy their commodity, you need to first get your regular money into their currency and then proceed with the payment. It functions quite similar to how people buy tokens and chips at casinos. 

Cryptocurrencies function on the concept of blockchains which is a decentralized technology. Blockchain keeps a record of all the transactions made using cryptocurrency and ensures the safety of all the transactions. It maintains a record of all the transactions between the buyer and the seller or the lender and the receiver. 

Best cryptocurrency options available:

Based on the surveys conducted by several websites studying cryptocurrency and its activities, there are several companies that have aced the market and how. Bitcoin ranks first in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $735.3 billion. Ethereum ranks second in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $324.2 billion. 

Tether ranks third in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $61 billion. Binance Coin ranks fourth in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $57.5 billion. Cardano ranks fifth in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $54.6 billion. XRP ranks sixth in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $46.5 billion.

Dogecoin ranks seventh in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $44 billion. Polkadot ranks eighth in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $22.1 billion. USD Coin ranks ninth in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $21.9 billion. Internet Computer ranks tenth in the list of these companies and has a market capitalization of $16.7 billion.

The reason behind their popularity:

Anyone who understands the economy and finances and has analyzed patterns will understand that in the coming years, cryptocurrency shall be soaring to new heights and will become more popular than ever. People are doing their best to go ahead and invest in cryptocurrency before its cost goes up.

Whenever central banks are involved in the process of money transfer and transaction, the process becomes more complicated. At times the server of the banks becomes a hurdle and stops you from a smooth transaction. These banks also reduce the value of your money whenever inflation hits. Cryptocurrencies are in no way involved with these banks and therefore lesser complications are faced.

The cryptocurrencies are managed by a technology known as the blockchain. The blockchain not only ensures the safety of transactions but also keeps a record of all the transactions. Therefore, cryptocurrencies are one of the safest ways of money transactions that can be carried out, keeping your money safe.

Various economists across the world have expressed their interest in cryptocurrency since it does not depend on our regular currency and isn’t related to its decreasing or increasing values. Also, the patterns do hint towards a brighter future for cryptocurrencies.

Conclusion:

Currency has been one of the most ancient inventions of our civilization. Ancient people in 110 BC used the barter system to acquire the goods and services they required. The barter system was quite flawed due to its instability. In 1250 AD, gold-plated florins popularised, and in 1600 AD, paper currency occupied all the businesses. 

Cryptocurrency is evolving as the new form of currency. It presents online or digital currency that can be exchanged on online portals in exchange for the commodities provided by them. Some famous cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Binance Coin, Cardano, XRP, Dogecoin, Polkadot, USD Coin, and Internet Computer.

Some primary reasons behind the popularity of cryptocurrency are that people believe cryptocurrency shall be soaring to new heights in the future and are therefore investing heavily in it. The central banks are not involved in the process therefore fewer complications are involved. Blockchain technology ensures safety and economists across the globe consider it safer to invest in.