Virtual currencies from the perspective of international and criminal law

Abstract

The research deals with a topic about which there has been much discussion in recent times, which is virtual currencies, as this topic is considered one of the developments in the field of money, economics and law, and it has taken a great deal of space at the level of individuals and countries.

    This research came in order to treat the subject from a scientific and methodological point of view due to its seriousness and importance at the present time, and the need to know it with real knowledge and to clarify the ambiguities around it.

  We have tried hard to research virtual currencies and explain what they are by defining them and highlighting their legal nature and most prominent characteristics and studying the most famous currencies and their trading areas, their price and market value, and then we shed light on the legal regulation of them internationally and criminally by researching and extrapolating in the laws and legislations of different countries How it was organized, supported or banned from dealing with virtual currencies, and we concluded a number of results, and followed them with recommendations that we considered necessary to lift the cover of the mystery that surrounded and still surrounds virtual currencies internally and internationally .