Israel's financial center and one of the world's leading cities for startups has nineteen merchants accepting bitcoin and seven bitcoin ATMs in a population of 451,000. Ljubljana has eleven bitcoin ATMs in the city and surrounding areas, and roughly 200 merchants who say they accept bitcoin. The prominent bitcoin exchange Bitstamp was founded by Slovenians before setting up operations in Luxembourg and London.

Tesla’s announcement that it had acquired 1.5 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of the digital coin as well as the IPO of the U.S.’ biggest crypto exchange fueled mass interest. The world’s most well-known bitcoinczechia cryptocurrency, bitcoinczech.com however, suffered a notable correction in April after speculation on government regulation. Another reason, according to experts, was an electricity blackout in the Xinjiang region in China.