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A NATUREZA JURÍDICA DO BITCOIN NO SISTEMA LEGAL BRASILEIRO (The Legal Categorization of the Bitcoin in the Brazilian Legal System)

2019; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

Edilton Meireles, Everton Caldas Silveira, Ruy Mello Filho,

Brazilian Legal Issues

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo e fruto da pesquisa quanto ao cenario economico brasileiro no que tange as criptomoedas, atraves da analise do Bitcoin, com o fim ultimo de tentar classificar em termos juridicos essa tecnologia. Para tanto, analisou-se a evolucao da moeda, instituto a que o Bitcoin e comparado e classificado, bem como o paradigma que propiciou o seu surgimento e manutencao, inclusive aqueles de carater ilicito. Em seguida, fez-se uma comparacao do Bitcoin e dos institutos de maior expressao no âmbito economico, como a moeda, o valor mobiliario, a commodity e o ativo financeiro, concluindo esse trabalho pelo maior grau de similitude entre o Bitcoin e o instituto da moeda, embora, para tanto, necessite perpassar pelo crivo estatal atraves de regulamentacao, e nao vedacao. Na pesquisa foi utilizado o metodo dedutivo, com revisao da literatura, interpretacao de texto normativo e analise de decisoes judiciais. English Abstract: The present work is the product of a research on the Brazilian economic scenario in regards to cryptocurrencies, through an analysis of the Bitcoin, while pursuing at last the legal categorization of this technology. To this end, the evolution of the coin/currency was analyzed, which is an institute to which Bitcoin is compared to and categorized as, as well as the paradigm which allowed its creation and maintainability,including those which are illicit. Afterwards, it was made a comparison between Bitcoin and institutes which are notorious in the economic field, such as the coin/currency,securities, commodity and financial assets, concluding the present work for the greatest resemblance between Bitcoin and the institute of the coin/currency, even though, for that to be, it will be necessary for the State to regulate it, and not prohibit it. In this research, the deductive approach was applied, through literature revision, interpretation of normative texts and analysis of judicial decisions.