Secure crypto currency point-of-sale (POS) management

A method, comprising:

• obtaining, by a processor of a Point-Of-Sale (POS) terminal, a plurality of recycled digital wallets on startup of the POS terminal from a server;
• receiving, by the processor, a payment option including a specific selected crypto currency payment as an indication that a customer is concluding a transaction at the POS terminal by paying with the crypto currency payment;
• mapping, by the processor, a transaction identifier for the transaction to a specific identifier associated with a single digital wallet selected as one of the plurality of recycled digital wallets;
• the processor uniquely associating and linking the single digital wallet to a transaction identifier for the transaction and maintaining a link between the specific identifier for the digital wallet to the transaction identifier associated with the transaction;
• determining, by the processor, an exchange rate for a crypto currency associated with the specific selected crypto currency payment to a government issued currency;
• determining, by the processor, an amount of the crypto currency based on the exchange rate and a transaction price in the government issued currency for the transaction;
• establishing, by the processor, a wireless paring with a mobile device operated by customer;
• wirelessly communicating, by the processor, the amount of crypto currency to a crypto currency application of the mobile device;
• displaying, by the processor, an address for the single wallet and the amount of the crypto currency needed for the transaction on a display of the POS terminal;
• scanning, by the mobile device, the address;
• receiving, by the POS terminal, the amount of the crypto currency in the single wallet after the scanning;
• and
• transferring, by the processor, the amount of the crypto currency from the single wallet to a digital wallet associated with a retailer
• recycling, by the server the address of the single wallet and credentials associated with accessing the single wallet back to a pool of available digital wallets that comprises the plurality of recycled digital wallets;
• determining, by the processor, that the POS has reached a threshold number of wallets;
• requesting, by the processor, additional recycled digital wallets from the server;
• and
• receiving, by the processor and from the server, an address of a wallet from among the pool of available digital wallets that comprises the plurality of recycled digital wallets.