Innovative approaches to the use of monetary units "bitcoin" in the economic activity of enterprise

The study reflects the main features of the use and production of the world''s most widely used bitcoin cryptocurrency, its descriptive characteristics. A comparison with other most rating types of cryptocurrencies is also carried out and a scheme for creating a payment base for housing and communal services enterprises is proposed. It should be noted that the use of "bitcoin" monetary units in economic and financial activity is an innovative direction in the modern economy and has a positive development dynamics. The article discusses the technology of obtaining electronic currency "bitcoin" - mining and foreign experience in the extraction of electronic monetary units on mining farms in Switzerland, Iceland and the United States. The authors analyzed the weaknesses and strengths of the use of bitcoins in the practice of enterprises and the state and noted the main positive trends in terms of high transaction rates, lack of Commission, in addition, identified negative aspects in terms of the instability of the rate, decentralization of the system of currency transactions, "competition" between cryptocurrencies. On the basis of the analysis the ways of innovative development of this direction of economic activity were revealed.