Abstract
The emergence of digital technologies contributed to the emergence and rapid development of digital commerce, and at the same time, the number of electronic payments, the use of digital and virtual currencies increased. The article presents an analysis of the legal nature of such a financial instrument as cryptocurrency, characterizes the distinctive features, highlights the advantages and disadvantages. The purpose of the work is to consider the regulatory legal position of cryptocurrency in the modern world, to highlight the legal practice in cases of the circulation of cryptocurrency, to study the role of cryptocurrency in transnational offenses, to explore possible options for combating cybercrime, which is carried out using the use of cryptocurrency. The methodology of the work is represented by a set of methods and techniques, operations that are used to study the topic and achieve the set goal, namely: hermeneutic, historical, extrapolation, comparative-legal, comparison and generalization, analysis, synthesis, deduction. Results of the work: in today's reality there is no unified international legal regulation of cryptocurrency, which complicates the prevention and fight against transnational offenses, the means or subject of which are cryptocurrencies and mining.
Highlights
Today there is a clear need to study the conceptual content and legal regulation of cryptocurrency, bitcoin, mining, to study in detail the legal field of cryptocurrency in various states, to analyze the objective increase in the number of offenses carried out with the help of digital money and to develop methods to prevent the implementation of illegal acts using cryptocurrency.In the world community, there is the use of cryptocurrency in such illegal acts as legalization obtained by criminal means, sale, and purchase of drugs, psychotropic substances, firearms, distribution of child pornography, smuggling transactions, extortion, fraud, theft, and corruption
One of the main needs for the development of legal regulation of cryptocurrency is the rapid increase in the number of crimes that are carried out concerning digital currency and with its use as a tool
It should be recognized that regardless of the civil law status of the cryptocurrency and regardless of the regulation of the civil legal circulation of the cryptocurrency, this type of digital money is already capable of acting as a subject or means of committing a crime
Summary
Today there is a clear need to study the conceptual content and legal regulation of cryptocurrency, bitcoin, mining, to study in detail the legal field of cryptocurrency in various states, to analyze the objective increase in the number of offenses carried out with the help of digital money and to develop methods to prevent the implementation of illegal acts using cryptocurrency. There is the use of cryptocurrency in such illegal acts as legalization (money laundering) obtained by criminal means, sale, and purchase of drugs, psychotropic substances, firearms, distribution of child pornography, smuggling transactions, extortion, fraud, theft, and corruption. In Canada, the implementation of any transactions with cryptocurrency is necessarily taxed as a barter transaction. The legal status of cryptocurrency has not been регулювання криптовалюти, що ускладнює попередження та боротьбу з транснаціональними правопорушеннями, засіб чи предмет яких – криптовалюти та майнінг
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