On October 12, 2026, Justice Mark Turner of Britain's High Court ruled that Chinese law governs ownership claims over more than 61,000 bitcoin seized from convicted fraudster Zhimin Qian.

How governments worldwide set rules for digital assets through legislation, agency rulemaking, licensing regimes and court fights.

The first and largest cryptocurrency, spanning its price and adoption, mining, protocol politics, and its contested role as digital money and inflation hedge.

Court decisions that shape digital-asset law, from Ripple and Coinbase rulings on securities status to criminal verdicts against exchange founders.