The paper analyses the legal status of such a new phenomenon as cryptocurrency. The
research prerequisite is the hypothesis of assigning cryptocurrency to the objects of civil
rights. Examples of legal regulation of cryptocurrency in some foreign countries are
given. The authors come to a conclusion about the need for a legislative solution of this
problem and, accordingly, attribution of cryptocurrency to the objects of civil rights.
Key words: civil law, object of civil rights, cryptocurrencies, legal regulation, mining,
blockchain.
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