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Is Bitcoin Legal in Spanish?

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.

Bitcoin was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto, and started in 2009 when its source code was released as open-source software.

Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services. As of February 2015, over 100,000 merchants and vendors accepted bitcoin as payment. Bitcoin can also be held as an investment.

According to research produced by Cambridge University in 2017, there are between 2.9 million and 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.

NOTE: WARNING: Bitcoin is not currently legally recognized as a form of payment in Spain. As such, any transactions involving Bitcoin are not protected by Spanish consumer protection laws. Please proceed with caution when dealing with Bitcoin or any other virtual currency in Spain.

Due to the decentralized nature of the Bitcoin network, there is no standard set of rules or regulations governing its use. This means that whether or not Bitcoin is legal in your country depends on how your government perceives it.

In some countries it is legal, while in others it is not. There is also a gray area in between where the legality of Bitcoin is unclear.

In Spain, Bitcoin is considered to be legal. The country’s Central Bank recently released a report that discusses the legal status of cryptocurrencies in Spain and concludes that they are not currently subject to any specific regulation.

However, the report does caution that this could change in the future if cryptocurrencies become more widely used and accepted. For now, though, Bitcoin appears to be legal in Spain.

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