Cryptocurrencies in contracts is a phenomenon of relatively
recent emergence and growing use that, at this point, cannot be
ignored by national laws. The so-called cryptocurrencies or virtual
currencies (bitcoins being the best known) are denominations of the
same reality: the creation of goods, in a digital and decentralized
manner, which "intend" to become units of value or
measure for the exchange of goods and services.
To explain what cryptocurrencies are from the point of view of
the information and communications technology goes beyond the
boundaries of these brief thoughts, and for that purpose there
exists specialized technical literature. We will only try to make a
very basic framing of this global and transborder current
phenomenon, with the very limited tools that Argentine law
contemplates and which, of course, were not intended to capture
their specific characteristics. With these limitations we can
state:
