Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 12.001
This is the official text of Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 12.001, part of Texas’s Business & Commerce Code — governs commercial transactions and general business practices.
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§ 12.001. DEFINITION.
Official statutory text
In this chapter, "virtual currency":
(1) means a digital representation of value that:
(A) is used as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value; and
(B) is not legal tender, whether or not denominated in legal tender; and
(2) does not include:
(A) a transaction in which a merchant grants, as part of an affinity or rewards program, value that cannot be taken from or exchanged with the merchant for legal tender, bank credit, or virtual currency; or
(B) a digital representation of value issued by or on behalf of a publisher and used solely within an online game, game platform, or family of games sold by the same publisher or offered on the same game platform.
(1) means a digital representation of value that:
(A) is used as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value; and
(B) is not legal tender, whether or not denominated in legal tender; and
(2) does not include:
(A) a transaction in which a merchant grants, as part of an affinity or rewards program, value that cannot be taken from or exchanged with the merchant for legal tender, bank credit, or virtual currency; or
(B) a digital representation of value issued by or on behalf of a publisher and used solely within an online game, game platform, or family of games sold by the same publisher or offered on the same game platform.
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