On the first week of June, 2018, the volume of transactions in bitcoin rose to more than 1.5 billion (worth N1.4 billion) from 1.3 billion traded the previous week in Nigeria, according to LocalBitcoins. Majority of those transactions were made by individual investors through local exchanges to comp
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