Semantics of the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem: Challenges for the Criminalistic Terminology

Abstract

The presented work is devoted to the issues of the feasibility of studying the semantics of the cryptocurrency ecosystem in order to determine the ways of further development of forensic techniques used in the investigation of crimes committed using digital assets. The intensive spread of the use of cryptocurrencies and their ecosystems requires a consistent and uniform understanding of terminology, which will ensure a single vector for identifying and suppressing socially dangerous acts. Attention is focused on the need to study both technological and legal aspects, which contributes to the integrity of understanding the specifics of such objects, as well as the implementation of procedural actions to identify, record and seize electronic digital traces. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion about the practical need to study it from the technological and legal aspects in order to develop a uniform and unified understanding of its specific terminology in the framework of developing new, as well as improving existing methods for investigating crimes committed using cryptocurrencies.