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Private Law Classification of Virtual Currencies

13 Juni 2017
Private Law Classification of Virtual Currencies

Oliver Völkel in the current issue of the magazine Austrian Bank Archive (Österreichisches Bankarchiv—ÖBA) on the topic "Private Law Classification of Virtual Currencies". With the spread of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, the legal science must ask how this phenomenon is to be treated in private law. In this paper, Oliver Völkel deals with basic civil law questions such as the legally sound transfer of the individual units of a virtual currency or the possibility of pledges. You can read the results of his legal analysis here.

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