SEMRush a marketing analysis firm shared the data where Bitcoin is the third-most preferred online payment method in Italy. Bitcoin comes in the third position after Paypal and the Italian prepaid card service PostePay. The data also disclosed that Bitcoins is more used for shopping online in Italy than credit cards, such as Visa, Mastercard or American Express. The usage of Bitcoin is more than 215,800 times per month for online purchases in Italy while Visa, Mastercard, and other credit cards are used only 33,950 online transactions per month.