The Cointelegraph - March 2017

La Dolce Vita in Bitcoin: Cryptocurrencies Around the World, Italy

A couple of years ago, “Life in Bitcoin” showed us how to survive by using Bitcoin as the only payment method. The greatest part of documentary was filmed in the US, where in certain cities you can live using only Bitcoin for payments. But how about other parts of the world?

Let’s travel to Italy, to see how far you can go with digital currencies there.

Italy is known for pizza, spaghetti and, unfortunately, for its mafia. All the money received from illegal activities has to be laundered and it seems that the mafia has started to use Bitcoin for this task. At least the Italian Senator from the Democratic Party (Pd), Lucrezia Ricchiuti, suggested it recently.

Blockchain is no stranger to Italian politics. Some time ago, the Five Stars popular movement leader Beppe Grillo has found a new application for the distributed ledger.