Boston research company SEMRush has informed that Bitcoin is the third popular means to pay online purchases in Italy – BitcoinDoubler2x has got to know.
According to research`s results, BTC has become the 3d popular payment means when ordering online, losing only to American payment system PayPal and Italian prepaid card service PostePay. Wherein, Italians use Bitcoin for online payments more often than Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
In 2018, the market of online purchases in Italy exceeded volume of 40 billion euros. In Italy every day are made 215 800 online-purchases with payment in bitcoins, and buyers use American Express cards to pay just 189 000 purchases per month. Visa and MasterCard are not popular at all – 33 950 purchases per month. With PayPal system users pay 1,3 million purchases per month, and PostePay is used for 1,2 million.