Nepal and Cryptocurrency
Nepal Cryptocurrency Laws
Regulation of Digital Currencies: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoins, Blockchain Technology
On August 13, 2017, Nepal Rastra Bank issued a notice that “all transactions related to or regarding bitcoins are illegal.”[611] In early October 2017, a police team from the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the Nepal Police “for the first time arrested seven persons for allegedly running bitcoin exchange business from various parts of the country,” the Kathmandu Post reported.[612]
P.S. Insights on Cryptocurrency Legal Issues
Most jurisdictions and authorities have yet to enact laws governing cryptocurrencies, meaning that, for most countries, the legality of crypto mining remains unclear.
Under the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), crypto miners are considered money transmitters, so they may be subject to the laws that govern that activity. In Israel, for instance, crypto mining is treated as a business and is subject to corporate income tax. In India and elsewhere, regulatory uncertainty persists, although Canada and the United States are relatively friendly to crypto mining.
However, apart from jurisdictions that have specifically banned cryptocurrency-related activities, very few countries prohibit crypto mining.
Our Freeman Law Cryptocurrency Law Resource page provides a summary of the legal status of cryptocurrency for each country across the globe with statutory or regulatory provisions governing cryptocurrency. The globe below provides links to country-by-country summaries:
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[611] Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), Bitcoin Notice, https://nrb.org.np/fxm/notices/BitcoinNotice.pdf (in Bangladeshi), archived athttps://perma.cc/856B-8JQ8; see also Atit Babu Rijal, Op-Ed., The Future of Cryptocurrencies, Kathmandu Post (Dec 27, 2017), http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-12-27/the-future-of-cryptocurrencies.html, archived at https://perma.cc/EQG6-HMT6.
[612] 7 Nabbed for Running Bitcoin Exchange Business, Kathmandu Post (Dec. 27, 2017), http://kathmandu post.ekantipur.com/news/2017-10-06/7-nabbed-for-running-bitcoin-exchange-business.html, archived at https://perma.cc/J4BY-4Q7E.
