If it were up to these 2 N.J. pizza shops, you’d be buying your next slice with Bitcoin

Pizza is one of New Jersey’s most popular and down-to-earth delicacies.

So it may seem as incongruous as spreading the tomato sauce on top of the cheese that some Garden State pizzerias have begun accepting bitcoin, the most common of the still uncommon variety of electronic payment known as cryptocurrency.

“Serving traditional Italian food with modern ways to order and, of course, pay for your food,” texted Tony Fevola, owner of Fevola’s Pizzeria in Lacey Township, which accepts bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, and Litecoin, a later variation.

Cryptocurrencies are essentially digital cash, transferred electronically from the owner’s digital “wallet,” or in retail purchases, by scanning a q-code on a smartphone.

Fevola’s, located in the Lanoka Harbor section of the Ocean County township, is one of at least three New Jersey pizza places listed on bitcoinrestaurants.net, along with two in downtown Jersey City, Helen’s Pizza on Newark Avenue and Alex’s Italian…