The status quo of virtual currency legislation

1. As of March 9, 2018, virtual currency transactions are not protected by law.

2. Virtual property is not protected by law at present! Money in society is just a kind of special commodity to facilitate economic exchanges, which is issued by special state institutions. Moreover, money can not be issued indiscriminately. If the ratio between the currency in circulation and the country's GDP is out of balance, it may lead to one of two consequences: first, inflation. 2、 Economic crisis. Every year, the country carries out macro-control and evaluation on the gross output value of the economy, so as to determine the amount of money issued in the next year. To maintain the economic balance of the country. Now you can think about how money comes from in the virtual society of online games. The answer is very simple. Most of the money in the game is earned by killing monsters or virtual skills. No game has a special currency issuing agency. In other words, money can grow infinitely in the game. So inflation is very common in the game. Similarly, other virtual items in the game can be increased infinitely, regardless of the daily economic law, as long as they are used by appropriate means (such as plug-ins). If we link these two kinds of property completely affected by different economic laws, what will be the consequences?

3. Reason: with the rapid development of information technology, real money is far from meeting people's demand for capital flow. If there are enough people to recognize the value of a virtual currency, it may become a substitute unit of material exchange, and the existence of virtual currency will inevitably cause another upsurge in the financial sector
in view of the possible risks of virtual currency, many international organizations and central banks have responded publicly to the supervision of virtual currency system. These responses can be roughly divided into four categories: warning and risk warning, supervision and registration permission, legislative norms, and explicit prohibition
(1) warning and risk warning
some central banks and regulators have issued risk warnings against the special currency and virtual currency system. The federal financial regulatory authority of Germany, the Bank of France, the central banks of the Netherlands and Belgium have issued public warnings against the possible money laundering and terrorist financing caused by the use of bitcoin. In the report released at the end of 2013, the European Banking authority (EBA) warned consumers of many risks of virtual currency, such as exchange loss, e-wallet theft, unprotected payment, price fluctuation and so on. Although Spain did not have a similar risk warning, it issued a timely information announcement related to virtual currency
(2) supervision and registration license
generally speaking, international organizations believe that the supervision of virtual currency should find a balance between risk prevention and innovation promotion. Since 2012, Sweden has required transactions related to virtual currency to be registered with financial regulators. Other countries pay attention to qualification supervision, so as to make it indirectly meet the requirements of prudential supervision. In other countries, the regulation mainly focuses on the business model of virtual currency transaction. The financial prudential regulatory authority of France regards the provision of bitcoin circulation and trading services and the act of earning funds in the process as a payment service and requires the authorization of the government. In addition, some countries focus on the intermediary institutions related to virtual currency. The German federal financial regulatory agency and Danish regulators believe that the provision of intermediary services for virtual currency needs to be authorized< (3) legislative norms
at present, some countries have proposed legislation to regulate virtual currency transactions. Canada plans to legislate to allow the government to supervise the transaction of bitcoin, and to include the transaction of more than US $10000 into the scope of suspicious supervision. The United States hopes to adjust the relevant legal structure should be compared with the development of the special currency. In order to make the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) applicable in the context of network, the financial crime enforcement network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the explanatory guidance on the behavior and subject definition of private generation, holding, distribution, trading, acceptance and transmission of virtual currency in 2013. The European central bank stressed that it should strengthen international cooperation under the existing legal framework, and regulate virtual currency from the European and global level under the existing legal framework. More countries believe that bitcoin is not a currency in circulation, has no legal status, and does not meet the definition of financial instruments, such as Finland, Sweden, Malaysia and Indonesia
(4) it is forbidden
in some countries, bitcoin related transactions are prohibited. In December 2013, the people's Bank of China banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin, which was subsequently extended to payment service providers. The central banks of Thailand and Indonesia share the same attitude. The circulation of anonymous internet currency (including bitcoin) is prohibited by the Russian judicial inspection department as a substitute for currency. The Central Bank of Russia has earlier included the provision of bitcoin services in the scope of suspicious transaction monitoring. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has banned the issue of unregistered shares in exchange for bitcoin, and unregistered online securities trading activities in virtual currency.

5. 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

6. The crime of financial fraud refers to the act of defrauding public or private property or the credit of financial institutions and destroying the order of financial management by making up facts or concealing the truth for the purpose of illegal possession
it is not illegal fund-raising.

7. If it's true, I think it will have a good impact on the development of the blockchain instry. I've been in the coin circle for several months, and I've seen many projects cutting leeks in the name of "blockchain". In fact, the essence is air money. If the blockchain is legislated, the atmosphere of the coin circle will become more formal, and many projects like SEC's social e-commerce chain will work hard, More people will find out.

8. Under certain conditions, virtual currency has certain value and use value, and has transaction function, which can be transformed into real property. In judicial practice, there are cases that the contract of disposing virtual currency is valid and the penalty is imposed for stealing virtual currency
it should be said that virtual currency is protected by law. I hope the answer will help you.