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Questions tagged [legal]

Legal issues relating to the use of Bitcoins or similar crypto-currencies. This includes issues of legal compliance with legal areas such as taxation, money laundering, international currency controls, and so on. Please do not ask for legal advice.

Legal issues relating to the use of Bitcoins or similar crypto-currencies. This includes issues of legal compliance with legal areas such as taxation, money laundering, international currency controls, and so on.

Not for legal advice

This tag is border-line off-topic, as Bitcoin Stack Exchange is about crypto-currencies and not about legal advice. However, it is useful for questions about general legal trends that concern a broad range of the community, and where it might not be as important that the answers are actually water-tight. Examples for such questions include:

This tag should not be used to ask specific legal counsel concerning your personal situation. Don't ask here, if you need definitive legal advice, hire a lawyer instead. You might find the following two questions helpful concerning that.

The discussion about this tag can be found at How do we handle legal advice / questions on legality?

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What is the current legal status of Bitcoin around the world?

Has there been any concrete information about the legality of Bitcoin in any country? Since any information can be injected into the blockchain, then if child porn / copyrighted material is injected into the blockchain, does this make Bitcoin…
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Is the NotHaus conviction (Liberty Dollar) relevant as legal precedent?

Bernard von NotHaus (the creator of the Liberty Dollar) was convicted of violating a U.S. federal law that forbids the minting of a currency by anyone in the U.S. besides the federal government. Might it be claimed that bitcoins are also a currency…
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Is there a list of countries that are not likely to persecute bitcoin businesses?

It seems that at some point countries will start cracking down on Bitcoins. And Bitcoin is designed to handle that. However, are there some countries that are openly friendly to bitcoin businesses and/or have a history of permitting additional…
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Is Bitcoin a corporation?

Does Bitcoin have legal status as a corporation? If so, what kind, and in what jurisdiction(s) is it registered?
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Would it be possible to patent Bitcoin?

Bitcoin utilizes a proof-of-work mechanism to assure against double-spending, as well as providing an example opensource implementation. However, some countries allow software patents, which could mean that one person/company has the ability to…
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Bitcoin Intellectual Property Threats

Are any known threats related to Bitcoin intellectual property? (While unlikely, I guess one long shot threat is that one or more governments would ban the use of the technology.)
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Can bitcoins be exchanged for nonlicensed "Professional" services?

Can Bitcoins be exchanged for professionally licensed services by persons who are NOT licensed? For those folks, receiving cash would normally be a Blackmarket Racket since only licensees, the governments approved vendors, may partake in those…
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What's the minimum age to join or use Bitcoin?

What is the minimum age a person must be to use the Bitcoin service?
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Are there any countries which currently block or plan to block Bitcoin?

Are there any countries which currently block or plan to block Bitcoin? If anyone has enough reputation to edit this, maybe add "censorship" or maybe "freedom" as a tag because i can't.
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Where to find a list of Bitcoin attorneys?

Does anyone know where to find a list of attorneys well-versed in Bitcoin? A standard Google search has yielded decent results, but just wondering if this already exists somewhere. More specifically, does anyone know of attorneys in the Chicago…
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Using Bitcoin ATM in NYC

I'm new to Bitcoin, so I'm grateful for anyone's patience with my perhaps uninformed questions. I live in NYC and I'd like to buy some Bitcoin. I understand that due to a recent law, exchanges aren't operating here, but there are several ATMs. …
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what countries accept and refuse BTC as money?

I am thinking where to find list what countries refuse or accept bitcoin as money? I read Denmark doesn't make tax for BTC because it is not accepted by the state as money. it has and legal consequences, if exchanger disappear with bitcoins, he will…
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Can I raise a lawsuit against a bitcoin wallet provider?

I think I'm not only one on this boat. I have bitfix bitcoin wallet, it's installed on my phone as it's phone's app anyway, it's got option to create login and password so obviously it connects to the online server managed by bitfix where user's…
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Is it legal to buy Litecoin and sell those within a few minutes?

In US, is it legal to buy and sell cyber currency within a few minutes?
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Buying/Operating Bitcoin ATM

I am looking for some assistance in gathering the correct information about starting to buy/run/operate a bitcoin ATM in Los Angeles, CA. I would like to start with one and expand to multiple areas. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a…
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