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TEKNOLOGI CRYPTOCURRENCY BITCOIN DALAM TRANSAKSI BISNIS MENURUT SYARIAT ISLAM
Authors: Asep Zaenal Ausop, Elsa Silvia Nur Aulia
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Cryptocurrency is virtual money or digital money or electronic money in illusion world which has no any concrete
thing. This cryptocurrency has many varieties such as Litecoin, Monero, Ether, Ripple, Ethereun, Qtum, Dash,
Zcash, and Bitcoin. The safety of Bitcoin is protected by Blockchain technology but it has weaknesses such as
no underlying asset, no authority, and responsibility. Moreover, the ownership of this bitcoin is anonymous, and
the fluctuation of this Bitcoin values was very extreme and dominated by public opinion about marketing system.
Therefore, the usage of this Bitcoin in the term of investation and bussiness transaction causes pro-contra from
economical experts and ulama. This research is purposed to get a representation around Bitcoin technology its
self and the validation for using Bitcoin in business transaction according to Islamic sharia. The used theory
is the taxonomy bussiness of haram lidzatihi and haram lighayrihi from Jumhur Ulama and constructed by
Adiwarman Abdul Karim. The method of this research is literature research; its resources are taken from Al
Quran, Hadith Rasulullah, classical and contemporary books also online media. This research resulted the
great revolusionarytechnology, but the usage of this Bitcoin as the investation of instrument contained maysir
(gambling) and the instruments of bussiness transaction contained gharar. The law position is haram lighayrihi.