{"id":149237,"date":"2023-09-04T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=149237"},"modified":"2023-09-04T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T04:36:11","slug":"china-court-says-virtual-assets-protected-as-properties-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/china-court-says-virtual-assets-protected-as-properties-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"China court says virtual assets protected as properties &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Virtual assets remain legal property protected by law in China, according to a Friday <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rmfyb.chinacourt.org\/paper\/html\/2023-09\/01\/content_231971.htm\">report<\/a> from People\u2019s Court Daily, a daily newspaper managed and issued by the Supreme People\u2019s Court of China.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See related article:<\/em><\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/chinese-crypto-holders-markets-friendtech\/\">If Chinese crypto holders sneeze, will global markets catch a cold?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The report, authored by a People\u2019s Court in the southeastern Fujian province, said that virtual assets have economic attributes and should be classified as property.<\/li>\n<li>The People\u2019s Courts of the People\u2019s Republic of China serve as the state\u2019s judicial bodies that independently exercise judicial power, free from interference by administrative entities, according to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npc.gov.cn\/englishnpc\/constitution2019\/201911\/1f65146fb6104dd3a2793875d19b5b29.shtml\">Chinese constitution<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Virtual assets held by individuals should be considered legal and protected by law, the People\u2019s Court Daily report said.<\/li>\n<li>The report further stated that crimes involving virtual assets, which are challenging for authorities to confiscate or restore, should be addressed using both criminal and civil laws to safeguard individual property rights and the broader public interest.<\/li>\n<li>Despite China\u2019s blanket ban on cryptocurrencies, local courts have issued rulings that recognize virtual assets as legal properties. Last September, a Beijing court declared that no laws, administrative regulations, or departmental rules deny the protection of cryptocurrency as a form of virtual property.<\/li>\n<li>Cryptocurrency usage appears to remain prevalent in China. In August, the Wall Street Journal <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/china-binance-largest-market-crypto-ban\/\">reported<\/a> that Binance users in China traded about US$90 billion in crypto assets in May, which accounted for roughly 20% of the platform\u2019s global volume, excluding trades by some major traders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>See related article:<\/em><\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/headlines\/china-binance-largest-market-crypto-ban\/\">China is Binance\u2019s largest market with US$90 billion despite crypto ban: WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual assets remain legal property protected by law in China, according to a Friday report from People\u2019s Court Daily, a daily newspaper managed and issued by the Supreme People\u2019s Court of China. See related article: If Chinese crypto holders sneeze, will global markets catch a cold? Fast facts The report, authored by a People\u2019s Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-149237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149239,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149237\/revisions\/149239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}