中国法院对加密虚拟货币的认定及相关判例研究

Different from the digital currency issued by the central bank, cryptographic virtual currencies is a kind of private digital currency which is issued and controlled by developers, not supervised by the government, and circulated among members of a virtual community, and encrypted by cryptography technology. In recent years, cryptographic virtual currencies has aroused heated discussion all over the world. There are more and more individuals or organizations investing, buying, selling and issuing cryptographic virtual currencies, but the legal recognition, supervision and protection of cryptographic virtual currencies are different in each country. Based on this reality, it is of great significance to study the views and attitudes of Chinese courts towards cryptographic virtual currencies.It is not difficult to find out from the research of 507 judgment documents related to cryptographic virtual currencies in Chinese courts that there is a lack of consistency in the qualitative and legal protection and there is a reverse judgment in the same case. The reason for this is closely related to the《Notice on Preventing Financing Risk of Token Issuance 》and the 《Notice on Preventing Bitcoin Risks》 by the People's Bank of China.In the laws and regulations for the encryption of the concept of virtual currency, protection do not make specific provision, the People's Bank of scrip issue of finance and currency exchange prohibitive provisions directly influenced the court attitude to encrypted virtual currency trading point of view, leading to the encrypted virtual currency in the judicial practice in China is difficult to get legal protection of negative consequences.