Bitcoin ban in Algeria

In its draft budget law 2018, currently under consideration by the National People's Congress, the Algerian government plans to completely ban Bitcoin and so-called virtual currencies (Article 113): "The purchase, sale, use and "these" currencies will be prohibited in order "to introduce stricter control over such digital transactions, which can be used for drug trafficking, tax evasion, and money laundering through guaranteed anonymity". of its users ".