Perspektif Islam dan Pandangan Masyarakat Kota Bengkulu Terhadap Fenomena Cryptocurrency

Abstract

Cryptocurrency is one of the many digitalization phenomena that now exist and being hot issue among people around the world. The existence of cryptocurrency raises a question in the society, especially among the muslims related to how its law of Islam is. Therefore, this qualitative research aimed at finding out the how far the understanding that people in Bengkulu’s City have about cryptocurrency, how the cryptocurrency system is and its law of Islam. To answer that question, the researcher interviewed several samples, which is from Industry and Trade Office of Bengkulu Province, and 20 samples from the people of Selebar District, Bengkulu City. As a result, it was found that from 20 community samples, only 9/20 or 45% stated that they knew about cryptocurrency, while the 11/20 or 55% remaining stated that they didn’t know. Also 2/20 or 10% of the samples said that they had invested on cryptocurrency, while 18/20 or 90% remaining said that they had not. In addition, the research also found out that cryptocurrency transactions contains at least 2 things that are prohibited in Islam, so it’s illegal.