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Bitcoin is continuing to find its way into many sectors including tourism, online shopping, hotels and restaurants, supply chain, online casinos, and charity. There is also a growing dire need for Bitcoin in banks.

Digital wallets have been here for decades but its adoption and use has grown by about 70% during the Coronavirus plague era and expected to double this figure by 2025.

Cryptocurrency scammers use numerous leverages to trick people into handing over their money. The basic desire for love and money are the most widespread of them. At least, that is what the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) thinks. These desires have already cost the citizens about $2 million in losses.

Online casinos accept a variety of payment methods, but one such method has become controversial in recent years. Credit cards have affected the gambling community so negatively that the UK resorted to banning them.

Blockchain technology has been identified by several web designers, software engineers and ICT specialists as a major tool that can change the mode of operations of online platforms.

During the Covid-19 pandemic where congregating is a very big risk to our health, cryptocurrency has become a godsend to gamblers because it provides the unmatched social distancing required in the fight against coronavirus.

For a couple of decades, people have misused the anonymity features of most cyber platforms to attack, abuse or harm others and this has been a big problem to society. But now, blockchain-based digital IDs could be a solution to combat online abuse and trolling while observing maximum anonymity.

A trademark crypto-war is afoot in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Safex, a blockchain engine for ecommerce, won the first battle by successfully obtaining emergency relief which requires the defendants Safeth LTD., and its principals Joey “Crypto” Lathus and Cynthia Lathus to immediately stop using the Safex name and logo in connection with their competing cryptocurrency.

Numerous countries and health organizations around the world have been researching all possible ways of preventing the spread of COVID-19. Among other means is switching all possible activity including payment to the online mode.