The relationship between virtual currency and crime

1. It is not likely that the public security organ will file a case of virtual currency transaction fraud, because the virtual currency transaction fraud generally involves a large number of people, a wide range, a small amount and strong anonymity
it is difficult for the public security organs to collect and collect evidence, and it is also difficult to carry out arrest operations, because most of the information of the Chuangshi operation team of the virtual currency scam is not public, and there is no way to collect evidence. Maybe the mastermind will become a victim after being arrested
with the popularity of virtual currency, disputes related to it appear frequently. Recently, the people's Court of Futian District in Shenzhen tried a dispute caused by investment in virtual currency. The court reminded that the investment transaction of virtual currency is not protected by law, and investors should keep sober and rational<
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after reviewing criminal cases or civil disputes, judicial organs decide to list them as litigation cases for investigation or trial, which is the beginning stage of litigation activities. Generally, it includes criminal cases, administrative cases and civil cases< According to the criminal procere law of the people's Republic of China, there are two conditions for filing a case:
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2. The fact of the crime should be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law. If there are criminal facts, but the law stipulates that criminal responsibility should not be investigated, the case shall not be filed
under any of the following circumstances, no criminal responsibility shall be investigated and no case shall be filed; If the case has been investigated, the case shall be annulled, or no prosecution shall be instituted, or acquitted< (1) if the circumstances are obviously minor and the harm is not great, it is not considered a crime< (2) the time limit for prosecution has expired< (3) those who are exempted from punishment by special amnesty order< (4) in the case of a crime in which a complaint is made according to the criminal law, the complaint is not made or withdrawn< (5) the defendant has died< (6) other laws and regulations provide for exemption from criminal responsibility
source: Sogou - virtual currency

2. May involve illegal fund-raising and pyramid selling and other related criminal crimes
(1) at present, there is no regulation to regulate the trading platform, but the trading platform should also fulfill the audit obligation. For example, when online trading various network virtual currencies, it should audit whether the currency is a network virtual currency based on blockchain technology
(2) if the trading platform knows that the online trading currency is suspected of MLM, but in order to collect Commission, it also provides trading services for the currency and promotes its development, once the currency is identified as MLM, the trading platform may have to bear certain legal liabilities
(3) at the same time, a large number of customers' funds are stored in the accounts of virtual currency trading institutions. However, all online virtual currency trading institutions are not qualified to absorb public funds, which makes trading institutions face the potential risk of illegal fund-raising
the 2017 version of the guide to the identification of internet pyramid selling (hereinafter referred to as the guide) lists several differences between virtual currency and pyramid selling currency:
(1) from the perspective of issuing mode, virtual currency does not rely on specific monetary institutions, it is a decentralized issuing mode according to specific algorithms; The MLM currency is mainly issued by a certain institution, and the profit is made by pulling the head
(2) from the perspective of transaction mode, virtual currency is a kind of sporadic transaction spontaneously formed by the market. After the scale is formed, the transaction is graally completed by a third party establishing an exchange, while MLM currency is issued by an institution and traded on its own platform
(3) from the perspective of implementation, virtual currency itself is an open source program, while the open source of MLM currency is completely ing other people's open source code, and there is no use of open source code to build programs, which is essentially controlled by the website as Q coin.

3. 1. Although network virtual currency can not be completely equivalent to money and other traditional property, in specific occasions, the perpetrator can achieve the criminal purpose of illegally obtaining other people's property through the possession of virtual currency. Therefore, the fraud of virtual currency may also endanger the property safety of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, which has considerable social harmfulness and should also be punished as a crime
2, if the public security organs suspect the criminal detention, the procuratorate can not approve the arrest, they should apply for l pending trial. Bail pending trial also goes through the court
the seventy-seventh provision of the criminal procere law stipulates that the people's court, the people's Procuratorate and the public security organ shall not exceed twelve months for the suspect and defendant to be l, and the longest residence shall not exceed six months.
ring the period of l pending trial and residential surveillance, the investigation, prosecution and trial of the case shall not be interrupted. If it is found that criminal responsibility should not be investigated or the term of l pending trial or residential surveillance has expired, the l pending trial or residential surveillance shall be lifted in time. In case of cancellation of l pending trial or residential surveillance, the person who has been led pending trial or residential surveillance and the relevant units shall be informed in time.

4. If the amount of fraud reaches the standard of the crime of fraud, it is a criminal case
according to the interpretation of the Supreme People's court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues concerning the specific application of law in handling criminal cases of fraud, the standard of "large amount" (i.e. filing standard) is to defraud public and private property worth 3000 yuan to 10000 yuan or more. The specific amount of the starting point of punishment is more clearly stipulated in various localities.

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According to the news on February 10, 2018, on September 4, 2017, seven ministries and commissions of the people's Republic of China issued the notice on preventing the financing risk of token issuance, which regulates the issuance of tokens. In the notice, the nature of all kinds of tokens and "virtual currency" is clearly defined: it is not issued by the monetary authority, and it has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and mandatory, It does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that all kinds of "virtual currency" still have a certain property value and are part of the property of the holder. So, how to identify the nature of the theft of such tokens

In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of "virtual token" holders, the author intends to discuss such issues through a relevant news report and relevant cases

stealing bitcoin

recently, a news report said that Haidian police in Beijing cracked a case of destroying computer information system. The suspect Zhong used his administrator's authority to modify the company's computer applications and steal 100 bitcoins. Before he could sell the stolen money, Zhong was arrested by the police. At present, Zhong was detained for the crime of destroying computer information system

it can be seen from the report that the police detained the perpetrator for stealing bitcoin on suspicion of damaging the computer information system. The crime of destroying the computer information system stipulated in Article 286 of the criminal law of our country refers to the act of deleting, modifying, adding or interfering with the functions of the computer information system in violation of the provisions of the state, resulting in the abnormal operation of the computer information system and serious consequences, or deleting, modifying or interfering with the data and application programs stored, processed or transmitted in the computer information system Modifying or adding operations with serious consequences, or deliberately making or spreading destructive programs such as computer viruses, which affect the normal operation of the computer system with serious consequences

In the author's opinion, this crime is one of the crimes of impairing social management order in Chapter 6 of the criminal law, that is, the legal interest protected by this crime is actually the public order of our society, not the property interests of the digital currency holders, which in fact denies the property value of digital currency, It is only protected as a data or system function in a computer system. The author thinks that there is some irrationality in this way

first of all, in the notice on the prevention of bitcoin risk issued in 2013, it is mentioned that bitcoin is not a real currency because it is not issued by the monetary authority and does not have such monetary attributes as legal compensation and compulsion. Bitcoin has four main characteristics: no centralized issuers, limited amount, no geographical restrictions and anonymity. Because it belongs to a specific virtual commodity in nature The notice also clearly mentioned that bitcoin does not have the same legal status as currency and should not be used as currency in the market. However, as a virtual commodity, the property value behind bitcoin cannot be ignored

Secondly, Article 127 of the general provisions of the civil law, which came into effect on October 1 last year, stipulates that if the law has provisions on the protection of data and network virtual property, such provisions shall prevail. Although only the protection of the network virtual property has made the principle provisions, but it can not be denied that this shows our country's attitude towards the protection of the network virtual property. Although there is no special law for the protection of data and network virtual property in China, from the perspective of the general provisions of civil law, it is predicted that there will be relevant legislation in the future

finally, from the relevant cases, we can also see the recognition of the property attribute of virtual currency such as bitcoin in China's judicial practice. In April and may 2013, Liu premeditated to set up a bitcoin trading platform, so he recruited Jin and Huang (both sentenced) to jointly set up a "bitcoin" trading platform. During this period, Liu, Huang, Jin, Jin and the defendant he, in addition to other acts of directly stealing customers' funds, also frequently cashed RMB by selling customers' bitcoins, and transferred 120 bitcoins from the website. Finally, the court convicted and punished the defendant for fraud, and the bitcoin transferred by the defendant was also included in the property loss of the victim. Therefore, from the judicial cases, we can also get the recognition of the property attributes of virtual currency such as bitcoin

based on the above reasons, the author thinks that it may be unreasonable to regulate the theft of virtual currency only as the crime of damaging computer information system. We should face up to the hidden property value and consider the application of the crime of infringing property in China's criminal law. Only in this way can we effectively protect the legitimate rights and property of digital currency holders in China

6. For example, the game currency used in online games, in fact, is recharged with real currency, or the game reward (game equipment or level) you get for spending a lot of time and energy in the game. In a sense, it condenses your labor and forms the income of labor, so when others violate your virtual currency in the game, That is, it constitutes a crime
in the form of game fraud, game account theft, etc

7. First, virtual currency, such as bitcoin, or some game and network currencies, such as QB and some game gold coins, are all personal legal property. As long as an indivial legally obtains them, they will be protected
Second, transactions prohibited by the state, especially speculation and trading of the virtual currency are prohibited in China. However, banning trading does not mean that the virtual coin itself is illegal or worthless
for example, bitcoin, which China refuses to recognize as any regional chain block currency, also forbids trading and services, does not mean that bitcoin itself has no value. In the international trading system, bitcoin is recognized in some regions, And there is a corresponding value scale
when someone steals bitcoin or swindles bitcoin, the state will still treat it as theft or fraud, and the amount needs to be approved< At present, the transaction and pricing of virtual currency are prohibited in China, but the value and holding of virtual currency itself are not prohibited. As long as the currency is not defined as illegal, it is legal.
similarly, game currency is also recognized as legal property, but its transaction is prohibited by the state, which does not affect the corresponding legal liability caused by the infringement of virtual currency

8. Is virtual property personal property? Are they also protected by law? A few days ago, a rare case of robbing virtual property told us the result: robbing virtual property was also convicted of robbery. Four teenagers used force to "snatch" an online player's online game equipment from an Internet cafe because of their infatuation with online games, Legal Daily reported. Then, the court found that the four defendants' robbery of virtual property constituted robbery, and sentenced them to three years' imprisonment and probation respectively, with a penalty of 5000 yuan. The judgment of this case marks that the protection of virtual property has gone from virtual property to reality< With the popularity of the Internet, online games have become an important part of young people's leisure and entertainment life, and the virtual goods formed by the direct exchange of real currency have a huge amount of property value. Subsequently, the cases of virtual property infringement are increasing
among them, the most serious case is the theft of virtual property. According to xinhuanet.com, Xiao Zhang, who is a junior this year, is an old player of the online game "dream journey to the west", but his online game equipment worth more than 30000 yuan was stolen overnight“ After the "theft case" happened, Xiao Zhang immediately took action, but the embarrassment was that he wanted to protect his rights, but it was difficult to do so. On the one hand, Xiao Zhang reported the case to the public security organ at the first time, but the public security organ refused to file the case because there was no clear provision in the law; On the other hand, Xiao Zhang contacted the game supplier, but Netease's reply was that this was a theft and should be reported to the public security organ first
coincidentally. In the virtual network world, QQ number theft is often encountered by users, and after the encounter, we often have nothing to do, more unexpectedly, it may also involve huge economic losses. According to the news morning post earlier, netizen Chen Xuejun found that a large number of netizens on his QQ number "98888" began to drop off the line. Within a few minutes, "98888" also dropped off the line and could not log in any more. Among his own QQ numbers, 46 were "hacked" one after another. Later, Chen Xuejun went to the police station of Shenzhen Public Security Bureau's high tech park to report the case. It is estimated that the 46 QQ numbers he lost were worth 600000 yuan
there are also some cases that show that if consumers can prove that the loss of virtual property causes damage to the real property rights, then the property rights are still protected by law. However, in such cases, e to the changeability of electronic evidence, its evidence effect is often greatly weakened, and e to technical reasons, many victims are difficult to collect enough evidence, which makes the relevant rights and interests protection more difficult
these events reflect that the protection of network virtual property is not perfect. Besides the loss of money, the biggest pain for users is anger and regret, and the greater embarrassment comes from the fact that it is difficult to protect their rights<
virtual property is also the legal property of citizens, which can not be infringed.
Ye Zhinian, associate professor of China University of political science and law, once wrote an article, pointed out that online virtual property can be purchased directly from game developers, or obtained from the virtual currency market, so virtual property has the attribute of general commodity, and its real value is self-evident
in this case, the virtual property that costs users a lot of time, effort and money should also be protected citizen property. But in contrast, players are "Heroes" in the virtual world and consumers in the real world, but they are often "weak" in the real world. The collision between virtual wealth and the real world is truly reflected here.

9. It's illegal to steal mines. If there is a large number of mines, someone will take charge of you and sincerely help you,

10. Both coin security and fire coin are virtual currency platforms and head platforms. At the same time to provide users with trading, information, mining and other proct services. However, many coin security projects do not have fire coin, they are two platforms.