Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 6 > Chapter 21 - Virtual Currency Businesses

• Acting in concert: means persons who knowingly act together with a common goal of jointly acquiring control of a licensee whether or not pursuant to an express agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Affiliate: means any person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Applicant: means a person who applies for a license pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Blockchain: means any ledger of exchange, sale, or transfer of virtual currency which is accessible by computers or operators that are part of any virtual currency network. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of financial institutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Control: when used in the context described, means the following:

              (a) When used in reference to a transaction or relationship involving virtual currency, power to execute unilaterally or prevent indefinitely a virtual currency transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Exchange: when used as a verb, means to assume control of virtual currency from, or on behalf of, a resident, at least momentarily, to sell, trade, or convert either of the following:

              (a) Virtual currency for legal tender, bank credit, or one or more forms of virtual currency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• Insolvent: means any of the following:

              (a) Having generally ceased to pay debts in the ordinary course of business other than as a result of a bona fide dispute. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• Legal tender: means a medium of exchange or unit of value, including the coin or paper money of the United States, issued by the United States or by another government if the issuance by another government is not virtual currency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Licensee: means a person licensed pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Mining: means the use of any machine or device to solve any series of complex mathematical equations, problems, or puzzles in binary or nonbinary sequences to add a block to any virtual currency network blockchain which is used to do any of the following:

              (a) Validate sales, exchanges, transfers, or ownership of virtual currency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• Minting: means the use of any machine or device to authenticate data, add any block, or record any information or data on any blockchain by either of the following:

              (a) Through any protocol. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• NMLS: means the multistate system developed by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators and owned and operated by the State Regulatory Registry LLC, or any successor or affiliated entity, for the licensing and registration of persons in financial services industries or any other similar online multistate database. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Office: means the office of financial institutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Person: means an individual, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, association, joint stock corporation, or other legal entity, or any individual or group of individuals, however organized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Regulated financial institution: means a federally insured depository institution and its wholly owned subsidiaries chartered pursuant to the laws of this state, another state, or the United States, a Louisiana state-chartered trust company, a trust company chartered by another state, or a federally chartered trust company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Resident: means any of the following:

              (i) A person who is domiciled in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• Responsible individual: means any individual who is ultimately responsible for establishing or directing policies and procedures of the licensee, including but not limited to an executive officer, manager, director, or trustee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• store of value: means to maintain control of virtual currency on behalf of a resident by a person other than the resident. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Tangible net worth: means all business assets minus liabilities and intangible assets, including goodwill and other intangible assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Transfer: means to assume control of virtual currency from, or on behalf of, a resident and do any of the following:

              (a) Credit the virtual currency to the account of another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• United States dollar equivalent of virtual currency: means the equivalent value of a particular virtual currency in United States dollars shown on a virtual currency exchange based in the United States for a particular date or period specified in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Unsafe or unsound act or practice: means and includes but is not limited to a practice or conduct by a person licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity in the state which creates the likelihood of material loss, insolvency, dissipation of the licensee's assets that materially prejudices the interests of residents, and any other set of facts and circumstances, as determined by the commissioner in accordance with this Chapter and applicable law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Virtual currency: means a digital representation of value that is used as a medium of exchange, unit of account, or store of value, and that is not legal tender, whether or not denominated in legal tender. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Virtual currency administration: means issuing virtual currency with the authority to redeem the currency for legal tender, bank credit, or other virtual currency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Virtual currency business activity: means any of the following:

              (a) Exchanging, transferring, or storing virtual currency or engaging in virtual currency administration, whether directly or through an agreement with a virtual currency control services vendor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382

• Virtual currency control services vendor: means a person that has control of virtual currency solely under an agreement with a person that, on behalf of another person, assumes control of virtual currency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382
• Virtual currency network: means any computer or operator having access to a ledger of exchange, sale, or transfer of one or more virtual currencies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1382