In Russia, the court accepted the claim about compensation of moral harm in the cryptocurrency.
Petty-bourgeois court of Moscow has accepted the claim of Russian citizen Oleg Voronin, which requires television channel two Bitcoin, ten thousand ECU (a digital currency that was created by the Voronin) and five hundred rubles as compensation of moral harm. This information gave the plaintiff "the New newspaper". "To be honest, I did not expect that the court will take action. After all, the cryptocurrency, many are not very clear. I was already mentally prepared to rewrite the statement of claim, indicating the amount of damage in rubles, but it turned out that the last claim accepted", – said Voronin. He also said that the meeting was scheduled for the fourteenth of February. According to experts, the plaintiff cannot receive compensation in Bitcoin, as the court fails to conduct a transaction through the Blockchain. But Oleg Voronin considers that it will be able to succeed. "In one of the regions there was a case when the court decided to repair often debt prayers. Then why can't we do it in bitcoin? We are not allowed, nor forbidden. Therefore, the court may order the TV station to pay the money: if not Bitcoin, then the amount transferred into rubles at the current rate," said the plaintiff.
Petty-bourgeois court of Moscow has accepted the claim of Russian citizen Oleg Voronin, which requires television channel two Bitcoin, ten thousand ECU (a digital currency that was created by the Voronin) and five hundred rubles as compensation of moral harm. This information gave the plaintiff "the New newspaper". "To be honest, I did not expect that the court will take action. After all, the cryptocurrency, many are not very clear. I was already mentally prepared to rewrite the statement of claim, indicating the amount of damage in rubles, but it turned out that the last claim accepted", – said Voronin. He also said that the meeting was scheduled for the fourteenth of February. According to experts, the plaintiff cannot receive compensation in Bitcoin, as the court fails to conduct a transaction through the Blockchain. But Oleg Voronin considers that it will be able to succeed. "In one of the regions there was a case when the court decided to repair often debt prayers. Then why can't we do it in bitcoin? We are not allowed, nor forbidden. Therefore, the court may order the TV station to pay the money: if not Bitcoin, then the amount transferred into rubles at the current rate," said the plaintiff.
Well, it's pretty good that courts started to discover what the Bitcoin is, even before russian law about cryptocurrencies is applyed