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The Procuratorate of Licang District, Qingdao, Shandong Province handled a Bitcoin theft case. The defendant Zhang assisted an acquaintance in registering a virtual currency wallet to obtain mnemonic words, and transferred 107 bitcoins in multiple installments, equivalent to over 50 million yuan at current market prices. Zhang claimed it was a 'protective takeover', but the prosecutor found out that he transferred the stolen Bitcoin through multiple trading platforms and exchanged it for RMB 660000. The Licang District Court sentenced him to 10 years and 9 months in prison and fined him 100000 yuan for theft in the first instance, and upheld the original verdict in the second instance. The prosecutor believes that Bitcoin has economic value and meets the "property" characteristics in criminal law, making it a target for theft crimes.