As a matter of fact we know online currency is popular in virtual community cause they uses of virtual currency is common for online based work. This digital currency is not so much popular for those people or local people who are not related to online based work. They have no idea how online currency increase economical condition day by day.
But from few years people are more interested about digital currency and online based activities only because of its several benefits.
Now a days we can hire skilled worker from all over the world and also can provide different work at the same process cause they dont worried about money and payment system.
So on above this conversation common people are more interested for online currency.
Even before when crypto doesn't exist, there are really a lot of online based project you can find around from simply survey to doing offshore work from different companies around the world.
But during the last few years, digital or virtual currency became to emerge as one of the choices for payment. Because bitcoin was really invented by Satoshi to be a peer-to-peer, meaning there are no third party involved. However, when it really became so popular, we face the issues of high tx cost and slow confirmations that makes people go to traditional payment such as wire transfer. But I'm sure that when Lightning Network is implemented, we may see it more adoptable for micro payments once again.