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September 14, 2018· SSRN Electronic Journal
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Digitale Zahlungsmittel in einer analog geprägten Rechtsordnung - A bit(coin) out of control – Rechtsnatur und schuldrechtliche Behandlung von Kryptowährungen (Digital Means of Payment in An Analogue Legal System - A Bit(Coin) out of Control - Legal Nature and the Treatment under Contract Law of Cryptocurrencies)

Authors:Leonid ShmatenkoStefan Möllenkamp

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German Abstract: Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.“ Dies proklamierte einst der amerikanische Poet und Freigeist John Perry Barlow, der als Mitbegrunder der NGO Electronic Frontier Foundation fur Rechte im digitalen Zeitalter und eine moglichst weitgehende Deregulierung des Internets eintrat. Digitale Phanomene wie Kryptowahrungen sind nur schwer den bestehenden Konzepten einer ursprunglich durch korperliche Gegenstande gepragten Rechtsordnung zu unterwerfen. Dieser Aufsatz versucht am Beispiel von Bitcoins diese Erscheinungen in bestehende zivilrechtliche Strukturen einzuordnen und zu klaren, ob der Gesetzgeber regulierend einschreiten sollte. Hierzu werden nach einer Einleitung zu Kryptowahrungen (I.) ihre Rechtsnatur (II.) und Behandlung i.R.d. Schuldrechts (III.) erortert. English Abstract: Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. This was once proclaimed by the American poet and freethinker John Perry Barlow, who as co-founder of the NGO Electronic Frontier Foundation advocated rights in the digital age and the deregulation of the internet as far as possible. Digital phenomena such as cryptocurrencies are difficult to subordinate to existing concepts of a legal system originally shaped by physical objects. Using Bitcoins as an example, this article attempts to integrate these phenomena into existing civil law structures and to clarify whether the legislator should intervene to regulate them. After an introduction to cryptocurrencies (I.) their legal nature (II.) and treatment in the law of obligations (III.) are discussed.

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