Do bitcoin players break the law

1. To be an intentional criminal of bitcoin, we need to make use of bitcoin to do non-material things. The central bank and other five ministries and commissions issue bitcoin risk notice (full text of bitcoin experts in China): the notice clearly defines the nature of bitcoin, recognizes that bitcoin is issued by the monetary Bureau, has monetary attributes such as compensatory and mandatory, and has real significance. From the perspective of monetary nature, the specific virtual goods of bitcoin have the same legal potential as money and should be used for currency market circulation Bitcoin trading is a kind of Internet Chinese commodity trading bank. Ordinary people are free to participate at their own risk. The notice requires payment institutions of financial institutions to buy and sell bitcoin procts or services at a fixed price, or buy and sell bitcoin as a central bank. Bitcoin underwrites insurance business related to bitcoin, or bitcoin is included in the scope of insurance liability. Direct or indirect customers provide bitcoin related services, including: customers Users provide bitcoin registration, trading, clearing, settlement and other services; Accept bitcoin or bitcoin as payment and settlement tool; Bitcoin and foreign currency exchange services; Bitcoin storage, custody, mortgage and other business; Issue financial procts related to bitcoin; Bitcoin as a trust Fund and other investment targets are stipulated in the notice as the main trading platform of bitcoin. Bitcoin Internet China station shall, in accordance with the regulations of the Chinese Communist Party of China on telecommunications and the provisions of the Internet China Information Service Management Office, file with the telecommunications management agency. The notice requires the relevant agencies to fulfill the requirements of the Chinese Communist Party on anti money laundering The "notice" requires financial institutions and Payment institutions to make sure that they use the concept of currency in their work, and pay attention to strengthening the public's monetary knowledge ecation, recognizing and treating the virtual currency of virtual commodities Rational investment, reasonable control of investment risk, maintaining the safety of their own property and other concepts are included in the content of financial knowledge popularization to guide the public to establish a correct monetary investment concept

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It's not against the law to do bitcoin business, but don't use bitcoin to do illegal things

the following is the bitcoin risk notice issued by the central bank and other five ministries and commissions (bitcoin home has the full text):

the notice defines the nature of bitcoin, and holds that bitcoin is not issued by the monetary authority, has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and mandatory, and is not a real currency. In terms of nature, bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity, which does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market. However, bitcoin trading as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate at their own risk

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It's not against the law to do bitcoin business, but don't use bitcoin to do illegal things

in China, the regulations on the administration of RMB prohibit the proction and sale of token tickets. Because there is no clear judicial interpretation of the definition of token ticket, if bitcoin is included in the "token ticket", the legal prospect of bitcoin in China will face uncertainty

the notice of the Ministry of culture and the Ministry of Commerce on strengthening the management of virtual currency of online games (Wen Shi Fa [2009] No. 20) on June 4, 2009 stated that the application scope of virtual currency of online games was defined for the first time, and the distinction between the current virtual currency of online games and the virtual props in the game was made; At the same time, the notice said that the "notice" stipulates that enterprises engaged in related services must be approved before they can operate

in China, some Taobao stores also began to accept the use of bitcoin, and the number of businesses will graally increase

in October 2013, the first bitcoin quarterly, one bit, was released

on October 15, 2013, the network accelerator service of the network announced its support for bitcoin

on October 26, 2013, btcmini reported that GBL was hacked

on October 31, 2013, Lei Teng, a famous Internet lawyer, proposed the event of "filing a case to investigate the closure of GBL bitcoin trading platform as soon as possible", analyzed the "value function" and "use function" of bitcoin, and bitcoin should be governed by relevant laws

on December 5, 2013, notice of the Ministry of instry and information technology of the people's Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission and China Insurance Regulatory Commission on preventing bitcoin risk: bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity

as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate in bitcoin trading at their own risk

on September 4, 2017, announcement of the people's Bank of China Central Network Information Office, Ministry of instry and information technology, State Administration for Instry and commerce, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission and China Insurance Regulatory Commission on preventing the risk of token issuance financing: it is prohibited to engage in token issuance financing activities (ICO)

the trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal tender and token, or virtual currency, or buy or sell token or virtual currency as a central counter party, or provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for token or virtual currency

on November 2, 2018, the people's Bank of China released the 12th topic of China financial stability report 2018, which talked about "encrypted assets"

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< P > users can buy bitcoin, and at the same time, they can use computers to "mine" bitcoin according to algorithms. When users "mine" bitcoin, they need to search for 64 bit numbers by computer

and then, by repeatedly solving mysteries, compete with other gold miners to provide the required numbers for the bitcoin network. If the user's computer successfully creates a set of numbers, it will get 25 bitcoins

e to the decentralized programming of bitcoin system, only 25 bitcoins can be obtained every 10 minutes, and by 2140, the upper limit of bitcoins in circulation will reach 21 million. In other words, bitcoin system is able to achieve self-sufficiency, resist inflation through coding, and prevent others from destroying these codes

source of reference: network bitcoin

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It's not against the law

The laws and administrative regulations in China do not prohibit the proction, holding and legal circulation of bitcoin, nor do they prohibit the sale of bitcoin mining machines

2. The investment and transaction of "virtual currency" represented by bitcoin are on the rise. For this kind of virtual goods generated in the Internet environment after the development of Internet technology, there are policy and commercial risks in related transactions. However, under the premise of not violating the mandatory provisions of laws and administrative regulations, the contract signed by the parties is a valid contract

3. Bitcoin is generated by "miner" and "mining", and "miner" can be assumed by anyone in any place in the world. "Mining" is a process in which "miner" provides certain computer computing power according to the open source software provided by the designer, and obtains the special solution of the equation through complex mathematical operations, The miner who gets the special solution gets a certain amount of bitcoin reward

Because bitcoin is based on workload proof, it is related to computing power. To have computing power, we need to consume power, so its power consumption is very large. It is precisely because of such a large power consumption that the safe and stable operation of bitcoin system can be guaranteed

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according to the data of btc.com website, up to now, the computing power of the whole bitcoin network is about 51.65 eh / s, which is equivalent to 1.84 million bitcoin S15 (28T computing power, 1596w power) mining machines in operation, and the daily power consumption is about 69.92 million kwh. Divided by the current proction of 1800 bitcoins per day, excluding other costs, each bitcoin will consume 38800 kwh of electricity. "

from this point of view, although the current price of bitcoin is expensive, the cryptocurrency market website coinmarketcap.com shows that the current unit price is about $7900, but the cost of mining a bitcoin is not low at all

5. Whether bitcoin is legal or not depends on the attitude of monetary authorities
the further development of bitcoin may threaten the interests of traditional currencies, and currency issuers will not cede their rights to an open-source P2P algorithm. So governments are likely to outlaw bitcoin
once governments declare it illegal, it may cause huge fluctuations in its price in the short term. It could be a crash, it could be a surge. Because people at the bottom of the world are obviously resistant to their governments< At the same time, the ban by the government will lead to the closure of bitcoin trading platform. After the closing of the trading platform, bitcoin can only be cashed in private, which will have a great impact on its cashing ability< However, e to the characteristics of bitcoin itself, it provides an excellent channel for officials of various countries to accept bribes, launder money and transfer assets overseas. Especially in the trend that officials of various countries disclose their property, bitcoin provides a good way for them to hold huge property anonymously
from this perspective, some officials may actively promote the legalization of bitcoin< On May 7, 2013, officials from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that they were considering whether the online virtual currency "bitcoin" could be applied to the agency's regulations. CFTC is the highest regulator of the derivatives instry in the United States. Bitcoin is known as a currency independent of traditional authority, and if it is regulated more, it may bring challenges to its supporters
CFTC mainly supervises derivatives contracts. Its responsibilities have been greatly expanded after the financial crisis in 2007-2009, and it also has full power to supervise retail foreign exchange dealers
Bart Chilton, one of the five members of the CFTC, said on Monday that he had asked the committee to consider regulating bitcoin to determine whether consumers need additional protection when using bitcoin[ 15]
the Hong Kong government has approved GBL electronic currency trading center to operate virtual currency exchange business, which will be an important milestone in the development of bitcoin. GBL virtual electronic currency trading center has completed the equity change and has the business scope of virtual electronic currency exchange business.

6. There must be fraud in digital currency investment. It's better to find formal institutions to invest, and don't trust high returns.

7. As long as he didn't use other people's funds, or I didn't misappropriate public funds. Buying financial procts is not illegal, but bitcoin trading is banned in China.

8. Bitcoin is defined as a special Internet commodity by the central bank in China, which denies its monetary attribute. People can buy and sell bitcoin freely at their own risk. It is legal for ordinary people to buy and sell bitcoin

because bitcoin may be used for money laundering, drug trading and other illegal activities, most of the major countries in the world take a cautious attitude towards bitcoin. Some countries define bitcoin as a kind of property, others define bitcoin as a kind of private currency, and some countries adopt the attitude of banning bitcoin

bitcoin is a consensus network, contributing to a new payment system and a fully digital currency. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network, which is controlled by its users without a central management organization or middleman. From the user's point of view, bitcoin is much like Internet cash. Bitcoin can also be regarded as the most outstanding three style bookkeeping system.