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Purpose - The paper summarizes the theoretical and empirical knowledge on the use and transactions of cryptocurrencies in tourism and examines the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment in Croatian tourism. Methodology/Design/Approach – The empirical research examines the attitudes and opinions of tourists in Croatian tourism regarding their willingness to pay with cryptocurrencies while travelling. Findings - The research results show a low level of payment for tourism services with cryptocurrencies in the Republic of Croatia, but a fairly open acceptance of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment for tourism services. The study found no correlation between the profile of respondents and the motivation to pay with cryptocurrencies. However, a correlation was found between the age of the respondents and the intention to pay, but there were no statistically significant differences in the intention to pay according to the age group of the respondents. No correlation was also found between motivation and intention to pay with cryptocurrencies. Originality of the research – The study can serve as a basis for further research on the use of cryptocurrencies in tourism. It helps to expand knowledge about the motivation and intention to use cryptocurrencies on a tourism trip and to understand tourists’ behavior.

Purpose - The paper summarizes the theoretical and empirical knowledge on the use and transactions of cryptocurrencies in tourism and examines the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment in Croatian tourism. Methodology/Design/Approach - The empirical research examines the attitudes and opinions of tourists in Croatian tourism regarding their willingness to pay with cryptocurrencies while travelling. Findings - The research results show a low level of payment for tourism services with cryptocurrencies in the Republic of Croatia, but a fairly open acceptance of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment for tourism services. The study found no correlation between the profile of respondents and the motivation to pay with cryptocurrencies. However, a correlation was found between the age of the respondents and the intention to pay, but there were no statistically significant differences in the intention to pay according to the age group of the respondents. No correlation was also found between motivation and intention to pay with cryptocurrencies. Originality of the research - The study can serve as a basis for further research on the use of cryptocurrencies in tourism. It helps to expand knowledge about the motivation and intention to use cryptocurrencies on a tourism trip and to understand tourists' behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology has changed the face of the world in every sector. Money or currency is no exception to that. These days, cryptocurrency is one more form of technological advancement leading the commercial market. However, it comes up with various types of risks like-Cost, transparency, legal adoption, security, scams, protection etc. which are creating hurdles in the acceptance of the cryptocurrency. The success of cryptocurrency will largely depend on the extent to which society is willing to adopt it. Thus, this study focused on the awareness and attitude of individuals investing in cryptocurrency. The study mainly assessed the awareness level of cryptocurrency based on demographic factors and further checked the perception of people towards cryptocurrency in India. For this, the questionnaire was filled up using likert's 5-scale model. Results show that there is a significant difference in the awareness level and perception of respondents towards cryptocurrency in terms of gender and income level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digital economy is linked to the extent of the development of information and communication technology and the ability of the government to develop plans and strategies that are appropriately employed to achieve its desired goals, as the digital economy is one of the modern economies that require advanced digital infrastructure, e-government, and smart cities. The UAE government has been able to lay the basic building blocks and pillars of public policies in line with its development vision and its ability to adapt to digital transformation with its advantages and capabilities that contribute to attracting foreign direct investment and striving for the UAE to be an incubator for major foreign companies, especially the pioneers in the field of information and communication technology—considering its tendency to adopt digital platforms and applications in all areas and sectors of the state and its official dealings, as well as the government’s announcement to embrace artificial intelligence in the year (2031) in all fields and completely, in the framework of keeping pace with global developments and to have leadership in the areas of innovation, research and development, to achieve transformation The successful digitization of its various economic sectors.

Objective: to identify the main trends in using the digital payment infrastructure for the legalization of criminal revenues. Methods: the methodological basis of the research is a set of methods of scientific cognition, including analysis, synthesis, analogy and comparison.Results: assessing the law enforcement practice in the field of using the digital payment infrastructure for the legalization of criminal revenues and the activities of law enforcement agencies in the field of money laundering at the global level, the author identified and analyzed the following main trends: a) the convergence with the position of the group developing financial measures to combat money laundering in terms of regulation, despite the absence of uniform rules; b) the active inclusion into the sphere of criminal legislation of norms aimed at prohibiting the use of digital assets for money laundering;the problem of jurisdictions and the lack of supranational regulation mechanisms; d) the consolidation of law enforcement efforts and joint operations to curb criminal activity; e) the active use of the confiscation The author comes to the conclusion that the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and other law enforcement agencies to develop a mechanism for the confiscation of digital assets in the absence of positive regulation seems to be a very inaccurate solution, although determined by the objective circumstances and criminogenic situation.Scientific novelty: the study evaluates the law enforcement practice in the field under consideration and the activities of law enforcement agencies in the field of money laundering at the global level; it highlights the key trends in the use of digital payment infrastructure for money laundering.Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the research can be used by legal scholars, legislators, lawyers and law enforcement officers in the development and improvement of mechanisms to counter the use of digital payment infrastructure for the legalization of criminal revenues.

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Over the last decade there has been a revolution in payment technologies. Digitization of bank accounts, new digital payment applications, and an array of new kinds of financial products and services have opened up a wide range of choices for storing, saving, sending, and receiving money. Digital finance has become an important tool in efforts to facilitate formalfinancial inclusion across the globe.And yet, cash has also remained an essential tool for people’s financial practices and lives alongside these new payment forms. Evidence from both developing and developed payment markets shows that while digital payments may have increased exponentially, the demand for physical banknotes and coins has kept up with the pace of digital finance. Physical currency or physical accounting devices are ancient and crosscultural technologies, in continuous use since at least 1600 B.C. Aside from risks and benefits, they are wedded to an incredibly durable set of behaviors and social practices.People use diverse payment methods (from cash, to cards, to payment applications and other alternatives) together. However, the ability to move between diverse payment forms, especially cash, has also featured prominently in criminal activities, including money laundering, tax evasion, and terrorist financing. This has led government authorities, law enforcement, and other entities to target cash in particular as the supposed core method – and problem – in such activities. The European Commission proposes to institute a cash transaction limit across the EU, claiming that it will prevent money laundering, terrorism, and crime. This follows the decision by the European Central Bank to end issuance of the 500 euro note beginning in 2018.

Transactions have always been one of the vital necessities of human beings, and human beings have always dealt with different types of innovations in order to benefit and use innovative methods in transactions, because the basis of transactions is always based on the basic principle of "exchangers". The contract form is between the two sides of the deal, and it's no secret that the tech world is evolving day by day. Every day in cyberspace, we are facing new and fresh ideas, and various speculations have been made about the situation of Bitcoin in Iran so far.However, no scientific research has been done in this regard. Therefore, the issue of bitcoin has been raised in Iran for a short time, and there are many legal loopholes for legalizing bitcoin in the country, as well as providing bitcoin conditions to prevent many problems, including tax evasion and money laundering. In order to explain the status of bitcoin in law and economics, it is necessary to adopt a policy on the subject of bitcoin and pay attention to the legislature and electronic payment system according to the laws and upstream documents and the position and laws of other countries in the field of bitcoin.

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The evolution of forms and types of money has been сonsidered. The features of the economic nature and the issue of modern credit money have been determined. Based on the study of the mechanism of providing liquidity in order to refinance commercial banks in various countries, the features of forming the monetary base and, accordingly, the emission mechanism in the modern economy have been identified. The specificity of the formation of the monetary base of the Bank of Russia at various stages of development of the Russian economy has been defined. Special attention has been paid to the study of the economic nature of emerging in the conditions of development of digital technologies of electronic money and virtual currencies.

Blockchain is a technology that will change the relationships between the different actors in society, individuals, companies and administration, in aspects as important as taxation, by implementing concepts such as Self-sovereign identity (SSI) and Smart Contracts; which support, for example, virtual currencies, that are not controlled by any state, financial institution or centralized company. Hence, the growing interest of researchers, investors, traders, marketers, enterprises, and administrations to know the scope of this new technology and its tax implications. The main objective of this work is to clarify the status of these studies, explore issues, methods, findings, and trends as well as to define their meaning within the current research scenario. To achieve these objectives, bibliometric analysis was carried out, retrieving 349 research papers, and analyzing 343 papers published between 2015-2019 based on the results of the Web of Science (WoS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the main economic and legal approaches to determining the status of the cryptocurrency. It is proved that the establishment of effective regulation of the crypto currency is impossible without an understanding of its economic nature. Cryptocurrency is regarded as a currency (digital or virtual currency, analogue of the currency, money), as a universal financial instrument, commodity (property, asset, property), money surrogate. There are the main conceptual recommendations for the regulation of the cryptocurrency as a new economic and legal phenomenon.

The authors explore the problem of contemporary globalization and management of socioeconomic development. They stress the role of world money i.e. virtual capital. In particular, they deal with the method of separating the financial system from the real economy and the problem of the management in the conditions when corporations have all the power. They promote the need to develop awareness for strategic control of resource utilization and their reproducibility. The authors highlight the difficulties that come with integrations, ranging from protectionism to autocratic behavior, as well as unprecedented debt growth. Bankruptcies are increasing without a tangible solution.

Virtual money is a new phenomenon which has emerged in modern societies as the virtual world is increasingly gaining momentum. It is not a long time since the idea of virtual money came to existence and became operational, yet various types of virtual currency have managed to gain acceptance and usage in today's market. Although governments have been reluctant to give credence to these currencies, the inventors of virtual currencies and market participants have been struggling to overcome the challenges involved and to come up with innovative solutions in order to provide more desirable and effective services in the hopes of making them more widespread. Correct and technical perception of the nature of the money will be the first step in identifying the regulative rules of Sharia as regards virtual money and its use in the Islamic financial market. This article is to specify the regulative rules of Sharia concerning virtual money through digging deep into the ontology of virtual money and analyzing the phenomenon of "money" with an Islamic jurisprudential approach based on the Credit-based Theory of Money. In view of that, it is essential to dissect virtual money in order to precisely understand its components and the key elements affecting it. These include the nature of virtual money and its base, its characteristics of being private and electronic, and the arrival of virtual money in the real world. The writers of this article believe that the most important consideration that must be given to laying the groundwork for virtual money in today's world money order is the coexistence of real and virtual money .

During the twentieth century, the entertainment industry recorded a steady revenue growth. The progress of information and communication technology (ICT) influenced the creation of a new segment in the industry at the beginning of the 80s, known as the video game industry. During the first two decades, the dominant model of earning for video games publishers was sale of a full game, which means that users were obliged to pay in order to play the game (pay-to-play concept). In the past ten years, publishers have developed a new approach, which instead of selling entire game content at once tends to decompose the sale into several smaller transactions. The prices of these supplements are often calculated in the virtual currency that is considered to be the currency of video game, and not in one of convertible currencies, which creates additional confusion. The subject of the paper is to explain the essence of microtransactions as type of electronic payments created in the video games industry and to observe their role in the process of industry transformation.

Blockchain is a technology that will change the relationships between the different actors in society, individuals, companies and administration, in aspects as important as taxation, by implementing concepts such as Self-sovereign identity (SSI) and Smart Contracts; which support, for example, virtual currencies, that are not controlled by any state, financial institution or centralized company. Hence, the growing interest of researchers, investors, traders, marketers, enterprises, and administrations to know the scope of this new technology and its tax implications. The main objective of this work is to clarify the status of these studies, explore issues, methods, findings, and trends as well as to define their meaning within the current research scenario. To achieve these objectives, bibliometric analysis was carried out, retrieving 349 research papers, and analyzing 343 papers published between 2015–2019 based on the results of the Web of Science (WoS).

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Today, we can see that the physical record of classical money evolved, with the effect of developing technology. The power of virtual money, which has different characteristics, which excludes all the features of the money called metallic or banknotes in commercial life, maintains its position in the agenda. Most of people are curious and excited about the developments in virtuel modey, even if they do not want to. The ease of access to the internet and computer in banking transactions and the increase in the processing speed have become more attractive thanks to the lower costs. In the long run, the fact that virtual money is in the electronic environment, has become the focus of positive and negative reactions. On the one hand, robotic applications, artificial intelligence and unmanned vehicles make our lives easier in certain areas while on the other hand virtualization of money in trade has provided speed and convenience to transactions. Due to virtualization, country boundaries have been bypassed and many formal procedures have actually been eliminated. States seem to have different attitudes towards virtual currencies. Some ignore the reality of virtual money, while some oppose it and others work on legal grounds. As a result, we are witnessing that virtual money has a strategic character in business life with the appearance of legal procedures outside the digital age where information, documents and transactions are coded. So that virtuel money has been a lifesaver for countries embargoed in trade wars. In this study, we will try to present the advent of virtual money which does not have the features of banknote money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article outlines the significance of the transition to the implementation of new types of money, such as electronic money, and predictors of its uprise. And also there are given the various terms of Russian and foreign scholars on the concept of electronic money. It also discusses the approaches to the definition of electronic money and credit cards as an option for payment of electronic money.

The term “electronic money” first appeared in Czech legislation in 2002 as the result of the transposition of legislation into the Czech Republic’s legal system in anticipation of the country’s accession to the European Union. This term subsequently reappeared in 2009 during the recodification of the legal regulation of payment services, payment systems and electronic money. At this time, the definition was subjected to certain changes which continue to exert a significant influence on current practice with respect to the issuance and subsequent use of electronic money. This paper addresses the term “virtual money” and considers the mutual relationships between “electronic money”, “cashless money” and “virtual money” from the point of view of selected legal and economic approaches. The aim of the paper is to employ the analytical method in order to investigate selected legal and economic aspects of the various interpretations of the categories “electronic money”, “cashless money” and “virtual money”. A comparative analysis approach will be applied so as to ascertain both the legal and economic differences between these categories and general conclusions will be suggested employing the deduction method. The article is further concerned with the influence of these categories on the monetary base and money supply indicators.

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Virtual monies present a limit case in debates about money's moral and political entanglements between sociologists, anthropologists, and economists. Digitized virtual monies seem ephemeral, almost ideal typical examples of money as a pure medium of exchange. This paper begins with the premise that virtual monies are as value-laden and morally entangled as any other form of money. This assertion is demonstrated by exploring how one type of virtual money, the Linden dollar (L$), and some of its associated practices are bound up with research participants' moral categories and judgments in the virtual world of Second Life (SL). Participants' accounts of virtual money practices are linked to moral attributes, sometimes in stark ‘good’ or ‘bad’ dichotomies, but also in more nuanced terms. These framings reproduce classifications of people and practices along a continuum with virtuousness at one end and maliciousness or harm at the other, passing through various states of possible moral dubiousness. For respondents, these two judgments go together; people are what they do with money. As a result, respondents decide what ‘people like that’ deserve. Evaluating someone's money practices means assessing the person. Participants' accounts of Linden dollar practices overlap with explanations of what SL is and how residents should live there. In SL, money is a form of material culture through which appropriate ways of being in the world are debated and reproduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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