A study and analysis of virtual currency crimes from the point of view of criminal jurisprudence

At the end of ۲۰۰۸, with the growth of technologies and the expansion of virtual space, a phenomenon called "Bitcoin" cryptocurrency was introduced to the world and became popular. Although the mining of virtual currencies has spread in Islamic countries and Iran, there are still Shariah uncertainties in the field of legality and legitimacy of the income derived from it. 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.

کلیدواژه ها:

cryptocurrency ، mining ، legislative regulation ، cryptocrime ، transnational crime.