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Preliminary Material
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Table of Cases
United Kingdom
European Union
International
International Tribunals
Other Jurisdictions
Australia
Canada
China
India
Ireland
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Singapore
South Korea
Switzerland
United States
Table of Legislation
United Kingdom Statutes
United Kingdom Statutory Instruments
EU Legislation
Treaties
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Acts
Regulations
Proposals
International Instruments
Other Jurisdictions
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Canada
China
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Liechtenstein
Malaysia
Pakistan
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
United States
Notes on Contributors
Main Text
1 Cryptocurrencies: The Underlying Technology
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
1.01
II Decentralization and Distributed Consensus
1.02
1.03
1.04
1.05
1.06
1.07
1.08
1.09
1.10
III The Chapter Contributions to this Book
1.11
1.12
1.13
1.14
1.15
1.16
1.17
1.18
1.19
1.20
1.21
1.22
1.23
1.24
1.25
1.26
1.27
2 It’s Virtually Money
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
2.01
2.02
A What are virtual currencies and why do they present such challenges to existing categories?
2.03
2.04
2.05
2.06
2.07
2.08
2.09
2.10
2.11
2.12
2.13
2.14
B Universal medium of exchange
2.15
2.16
2.17
2.18
C Unit of account
2.19
D Store of value
2.20
2.21
E A peculiarly private law concept of ‘money’
2.22
2.23
2.24
2.25
F Consequences of a failure to recognize virtual currency as money
1 Barter rather than sale
2.26
2.27
2.28
2.29
2.30
2.31
2.32
2.33
2.34
2.35
2.36
2.37
2.38
2.39
2.40
2.41
2.42
2.43
2 Applicability of the bona fide purchaser for value defence
2.44
2.45
2.46
2.47
II Conclusion
2.48
3 Cryptocurrencies in International and Public Law Conceptions of Money
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
3.01
3.02
3.03
3.04
II Theories of Money
3.05
3.06
3.07
3.08
III Nature of Cryptocurrencies
3.09
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
IV International Law
3.16
3.17
3.18
3.19
3.20
3.21
3.22
3.23
V Public Law
3.24
3.25
3.26
VI Criminal Law
3.27
A Theft and fraud
3.28
3.29
3.30
3.31
B Cryptocurrencies and money laundering
3.32
3.33
C Financial markets legislation
3.34
3.35
3.36
3.37
3.38
3.39
3.40
3.41
3.42
3.43
VII The Central Bank
3.44
3.45
A Financial stability
3.46
3.47
3.48
3.49
3.50
3.51
3.52
3.53
3.54
B Monetary policy
3.55
3.56
3.57
VIII Conclusions
3.58
3.59
4 Developing the Right Regulatory Regime for Cryptocurrencies and Other Value Data
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
A Scope
4.01
4.02
4.03
B Thesis
4.04
C Structure
4.05
II Asset and Manifestation: Substance and Form of Monetary Value over the Course of Time
A Banknotes
1 Redeemable banknotes
4.06
4.07
4.08
4.09
4.10
4.11
2 Irredeemable banknotes
4.12
4.13
4.14
4.15
4.16
4.17
4.18
4.19
B Central bank reserve balances
4.20
4.21
1 Initially: claims to payment of legal tender
4.22
4.23
4.24
4.25
4.26
2 Later: legal tender in the form of non-convertible sight deposits (fiat money)
4.27
4.28
4.29
4.30
4.31
4.32
4.33
4.34
C Interim conclusion
4.35
4.36
4.37
4.38
4.39
4.40
4.41
4.42
4.43
4.44
4.45
4.46
III Modes of Creation of Money and Their Effects on the Substance of an Asset
4.47
A Temporary money: created on a temporary basis
4.48
4.49
4.50
B Outright money: created with no connected reversal event
4.51
4.52
4.53
4.54
4.55
C Helicopter money
4.56
4.57
4.58
4.59
IV Types of Manifestation and Their Effects on Legal Title, Transfer, and Protection of Commercial Dealings
4.60
4.61
4.62
A Manifestation by possession
4.63
B Manifestation by oral or written but uncertificated consent
4.64
C Manifestation by certificated security
4.65
D Manifestation by money
4.66
4.67
4.68
4.69
4.70
E Manifestation by intermediated security
4.71
4.72
4.73
4.74
4.75
F Manifestation by entry in a register kept by a trusted party
4.76
4.77
4.78
4.79
V Conclusion: Manifestation of Value Data by Entry in a Register Kept by a Trusted Technology
A Value data: the rivalrous and excludable
4.80
4.81
4.82
B Book entries secured by elliptic cryptography
4.83
4.84
4.85
4.86
C Legal consequences and recent legislative developments
1 Static dimension: legal title
4.87
4.88
4.89
4.90
4.91
4.92
4.93
2 Dynamic dimension: mode of transfer
4.94
4.95
4.96
4.97
4.98
4.99
D Closing remark
4.100
4.101
5 Cryptocurrencies and the Conflict of Laws
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
A Virtual currencies and cryptocurrencies in outline
5.01
5.02
5.03
B The conflict of laws in outline
5.04
5.05
5.06
C Regulatory challenges for the conflict of laws
5.07
5.08
5.09
5.10
5.11
5.12
5.13
5.14
II The Law Applicable to the Relationships between Participants within a Cryptocurrency System
A Introduction
5.15
5.16
5.17
B Key features of the Bitcoin and Ripple cryptocurrency systems
1 Bitcoin
5.18
5.19
5.20
5.21
5.22
2 Ripple
5.23
5.24
5.25
5.26
C Conflict of laws characterization of the relationships between participants in cryptocurrency systems
5.27
5.28
5.29
5.30
5.31
5.32
5.33
5.34
D The law applicable to relationships between participants in cryptocurrency systems
5.35
1 Choice of the applicable law (Article 3)
a) The Rome I Regulation: choice of national law
5.36
5.37
5.38
b) Possible future alternatives to choice of national law
5.39
5.40
5.41
5.42
5.43
2 Law applicable in the absence of choice (Article 4)
5.44
a) Temporal application of the Rome I Regulation
5.45
5.46
5.47
5.48
b) Particular categories of contract (Article 4(1)) and characteristic performance (Article 4(2))
5.49
5.50
5.51
5.52
5.53
5.54
5.55
5.56
5.57
5.58
5.59
5.60
5.61
c) The closest connection test (Article 4(4))
5.62
5.63
5.64
d) Does a tenuous connection to the country of closest connection suffice?
5.65
5.66
5.67
3 Other issues
5.68
5.69
5.70
5.71
E Reflection
5.72
III Cryptocurrencies as ‘Money’ in the Conflict of Laws
A Cryptocurrencies and the ‘lex monetae’
5.73
5.74
5.75
5.76
5.77
5.78
5.79
5.80
B Illegality of transactions involving cryptocurrencies
5.81
5.82
5.83
5.84
5.85
5.86
5.87
5.88
C Judgments in a cryptocurrency
5.89
5.90
5.91
5.92
IV Cryptocurrencies as ‘Property’ in the Conflict of Laws
A Introduction
5.93
5.94
5.95
B The proprietary character of cryptocurrencies
5.96
5.97
5.98
5.99
5.100
5.101
5.102
C The law applicable to assignments of claims under the Rome I Regulation
5.103
5.104
5.105
D Beyond legal rights: the law applicable outside the Rome I Regulation
5.106
5.107
5.108
5.109
5.110
5.111
5.112
5.113
5.114
5.115
5.116
5.117
5.118
5.119
5.120
V Conclusions
5.121
6 Cryptocurrencies in the Common Law of Property
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
6.01
6.02
6.03
6.04
6.05
6.06
6.07
A Approach and terminology
6.08
6.09
6.10
II A Crypto-Coin as an Object of Property
6.11
A Data strings recording transactions
6.12
6.13
6.14
6.15
6.16
6.17
6.18
6.19
B Fungibility, specificity, scarcity, and exclusion
1 Fungibility as an aim of cryptocurrency design
6.20
2 Fungibility and specificity in property law
6.21
6.22
6.23
6.24
3 Cryptocurrencies as either fungible or specific in law
6.25
4 Scarcity and exclusivity
6.26
6.27
C Crypto-coins in the law of personal property
1 Choses in possession and choses in action
6.28
6.29
6.30
6.31
2 Intangible personal property other than choses in action
6.32
6.33
6.34
6.35
6.36
6.37
3 The current authorities
6.38
6.39
6.40
6.41
6.42
6.43
6.44
III Rules of Title and Transfer
A General
6.45
6.46
6.47
B Derivative transfers of title
1 General
6.48
2 Legal title and the blockchain record
6.49
3 The blockchain record as presumptive evidence of title
6.50
6.51
6.52
4 Derivative transfers of title and tracing
6.53
6.54
6.55
6.56
5 Purchase for value in good faith
6.57
6.58
6.59
6.60
6.61
6.62
6.63
6.64
6.65
6.66
IV Mixture, Following, and Tracing
A Mixtures of cryptocurrencies
6.67
6.68
1 Mixing in practice
6.69
6.70
6.71
6.72
6.73
B Tracing and cryptocurrencies
6.74
1 Cryptocurrencies are traced not followed
6.75
2 The blockchain and traceability
6.76
6.77
3 Pseudonymity and tracing
6.78
C Attribution in cryptocurrency transactions
1 Attribution by the blockchain record or by an external transaction
6.79
6.80
D Tracing through mixtures
1 Balances and transactional outputs
6.81
6.82
E Cryptographic and legal rules for tracing through mixtures
6.83
1 The poison approach: a punitive causation rule
6.84
6.85
2 The haircut approach: proportionate division
6.86
6.87
3 The first-in-first-out approach: Clayton’s Case
6.88
6.89
6.90
6.91
6.92
4 Variations from Clayton’s Case
6.93
6.94
6.95
6.96
F Notice in cryptocurrency payments
6.97
6.98
6.99
6.100
V Remedies
6.101
A Common law remedies
6.102
6.103
6.104
B Equitable remedies
6.105
6.106
VI Conclusion
6.107
6.108
7 Cryptocurrencies as Property in Civilian and Mixed Legal Systems
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
7.01
7.02
7.03
7.04
II Cryptocurrencies as Res
7.05
A What is a unit of cryptocurrency?
7.06
7.07
7.08
B Fixed lists or numerus clausus
7.09
7.10
7.11
7.12
7.13
7.14
C Possession?
7.15
D Specificity
7.16
7.17
E Publicity
7.18
7.19
7.20
F Analogical addendum
7.21
7.22
III Implications of Recognizing Cryptocurrencies as Res
7.23
A ‘Ownership’?
7.24
7.25
B Vindication and possessory actions
1 Vindication
7.26
7.27
7.28
2 Possessory actions
7.29
7.30
C Acquisitive prescription and original acquisition
7.31
1 Mixtures, specification, and occupation
7.32
7.33
2 Acquisitive prescription
7.34
7.35
IV Conclusion
7.36
8 The Characterization of Cryptocurrencies in East Asia
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
8.01
II Cryptocurrencies: Reinventing Money?
8.02
8.03
8.04
8.05
III The Roman-Germanic Terrain of East Asian Civil Law
8.06
8.07
8.08
8.09
IV The Unbearable Strictness of Owning?
A A fundamental distinction: ownership and its objects
8.10
8.11
B The objects of ownership in East Asia
8.12
8.13
8.14
8.15
C Cryptocurrencies as objects of ownership?
8.16
8.17
8.18
8.19
8.20
8.21
V Real Rights without Tangible Objects: Quasi-Real Rights?
8.22
8.23
8.24
8.25
8.26
8.27
A Rei vindicatio
8.28
8.29
8.30
B Damages under tort law
8.31
8.32
C Electing between remedies
8.33
VI Conclusion
8.34
VII Postscript
8.35
9 Cryptocurrencies and Banking Law: Are There Lessons to Learn?
Preliminary Material
I Introduction
9.01
9.02
9.03
II The Cryptocurrency as a Store of Value
9.04
9.05
9.06
9.07
9.08
9.09
9.10
9.11
9.12
A The duty to act within mandate
9.13
9.14
9.15
B The duty of secrecy
9.16
9.17
C The duty to act with reasonable skill and care
9.18
9.19
D Fiduciary duties
9.20
III The Cryptocurrency as Payment
9.21
9.22
9.23
9.24
9.25
IV The Cryptocurrency as a Basis for Lending
9.26
V Conclusion
9.27
10 Taxation of Cryptocurrencies
Preliminary Material
I Background
10.01
10.02
10.03
10.04
10.05
10.06
10.07
10.08
10.09
10.10
10.11
10.12
A Direct taxes
10.13
10.14
10.15
B Value-added taxes
10.16
10.17
II International Approaches
A Cryptocurrencies as property
1 United States
10.18
10.19
10.20
10.21
10.22
10.23
10.24
10.25
10.26
10.27
10.28
10.29
10.30
10.31
10.32
10.33
10.34
10.35
10.36
10.37
2 Australia: income tax and capital gains tax
10.38
10.39
10.40
10.41
10.42
10.43
10.44
10.45
10.46
10.47
10.48
3 Other countries
10.49
10.50
a) Singapore
10.51
10.52
10.53
b) France
10.54
10.55
10.56
c) Israel
10.57
10.58
d) The UK
10.59
10.60
10.61
B Cryptocurrencies as currency
10.62
1 Australia: goods and services tax—supplies of cryptocurrencies
10.63
10.64
10.65
10.66
10.67
2 European VAT
10.68
10.69
10.70
10.71
10.72
10.73
3 UK VAT
10.74
10.75
10.76
10.77
10.78
10.79
10.80
10.81
4 UK corporation tax
10.82
10.83
10.84
5 UK business tax
10.85
6 Switzerland
10.86
10.87
10.88
10.89
C Other approaches
10.90
10.91
10.92
10.93
10.94
10.95
10.96
10.97
III Consideration of the Tax Treatment of Cryptocurrencies
10.98
10.99
A Equality
10.100
10.101
10.102
10.103
10.104
10.105
10.106
10.107
10.108
10.109
10.110
10.111
B Efficiency, convenience, and certainty
10.112
10.113
10.114
10.115
10.116
10.117
10.118
10.119
10.120
IV Conclusions
10.121
10.122
10.123
11 Non-state community Virtual Currencies
Preliminary Material
I Introduction: What Is Digital Community Currency?
11.01
11.02
11.03
11.04
11.05
11.06
11.07
II Legal Tender and Money
11.08
11.09
11.10
11.11
11.12
11.13
11.14
11.15
11.16
III Exchange, Community, and Money: Chicken and Egg?
11.17
11.18
11.19
11.20
11.21
11.22
11.23
11.24
11.25
IV How Far Ought Acceptance Be Free? Lessons from History
11.26
11.27
11.28
11.29
11.30
11.31
11.32
V Does Digitization Change the Meaning of a ‘Monetary’ Community?
11.33
11.34
11.35
11.36
11.37
11.38
11.39
11.40
VI Privately Issued Money: Does Law Converge with Economic Sociology?
11.41
11.42
11.43
11.44
11.45
VII Is the Banknote Unique? The Reach of Its Legal History
11.46
11.47
11.48
11.49
11.50
11.51
11.52
11.53
VIII Do Cryptocurrencies Constitute ‘Money’?
11.54
11.55
11.56
11.57
11.58
11.59
11.60
IX Does Community Money Bring Net Benefits? A Brief Overview
11.61
11.62
11.63
11.64
11.65
X Conclusion and Final Observations
11.66
11.67
11.68
11.69
Further Material
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Daniel Carr, Andrew Dickinson, Anne Fairpo, Benjamin Geva, Dorit Geva, Christopher Hare, Kelvin FK Low, Charles Proctor, Wu Ying-Chieh, Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht
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Cryptocurrencies in Public and Private Law
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