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criminal provisions for cryptocurrency

The research deals with a topic in which the science of finance and technology is intertwined with law, as it has an important future social and political dimension, as this research attempts to study the legal aspect of the criminal aspect of virtual currencies that began to appear a decade ago, and their numbers and types are still multiplying, and some countries started issuing digital currencies for them, With the aim of developing a legal vision that provides protection for these currencies, diagnoses the risks that they generate, and how to address them.
So the researcher tackled this topic, clarifying its nature, determining its limits, determining the legal position on it, trying to determine its legal nature, clarifying the legal texts capable of accommodating these currencies with protection, and the texts that need to be modified, within the framework of Iraqi legislation and the countries specified for comparison.
The study was divided into three chapters, as the nature of virtual currencies was dealt with in the first chapter, the study of the substantive provisions in the second chapter, and the most important procedural provisions in the third chapter, and then the conclusion came to show the most important results and suggestions.
This study concluded that it is necessary to study these currencies from all financial, technical and legal aspects to reach the issuance of a national currency, and to set standards for specific categories of them that grant authorization to deal, and in accordance with the Iraqi legislative system with the aim of issuing a special law, or amending existing laws in accordance with the above vision, and with the The path towards managing the risks of virtual currencies is better than avoiding them in a disciplined legal context.