The spread of the coronavirus pandemic does not directly stimulate the development of cryptocurrency and increased demand for it. The recovery of the cryptocurrency market after a sudden drop in cryptocurrency prices in mid-March is a consequence of other factors not related to coronavirus. First of all, this is due to a decrease in the remuneration of miners by half for each new bitcoin block mined in May, as well as the expectation of a global economic crisis, which, according to the forecasts of the International Monetary Fund, may be the toughest after the end of the Second World War.