数字货币，是一种具有财产性价值属性的电磁记录型数据。数字货币在其依存的区块链体系中所彰显的与不特定者之间的支付对价性、与法定货币之间的互换性、使用电子信息处理系统进行转移的在线转移性等特点，得以从数据说的角度，将其作为一种数据性财产权在现行法律框架内对其私法性质进行讨论。有鉴于我国民法总则已将数据纳入保护客体的范畴，数字货币作为数据之一种，理应成为一种新型法律客体，在得到法律理论支撑的基础上获得保护。

Digital currency is an electromagnetic recording data with property value attribute.The characteristics of digital currency in its dependent block-chain system, such as the payment consideration between the unspecified person, the exchangeability with the legal currency, and the online transfer using the electronic information processing system, make it possible to discuss digital currency on its private law nature as a kind of data property right in the current legal framework from the data theory.In view of the fact that data has been included in the scope of protection objects in the General Principles of Civil Law in China, digital currency, as a kind of data, should become a new type of legal object and be protected on the basis of legal theoretical support.

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中央高校基本科研业务费"大数据交易法律问题研究"（NO.106112016 CDJSK 08 JD 09）；中国法学会2016年度部级法学研究重大课题"中国大数据产业发展法律问题研究"（CLS（2016）A01）