The virtual currency, also has its first ATM. He opened Tuesday in a coffee shop in Vancouver now Robocoin, Nevada. Even the Google Glass already have their first app to pay in Bitcoin
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Bitcoin Rome, November 1, 2013
Bitcoins, the currency “virtual” as trendy as controversial – for which the U.S. authorities are trying to define the rules – has now also his first ‘ATM’. He opened last Tuesday at a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada, the company Robocoin, Nevada.
A real “Atm” with which to exchange their own money to buy or sell Bitcoin. The ATM in the case of Bitcoin allows to exchange the virtual currency with Canadian dollars and vice versa.
It works by scanning the user’s hand to ensure you do not exceed a daily limit of exchange of 3 thousand Canadian dollars, equivalent to that provided by the anti-money laundering law in Canada. Only on the first day, explains Robocoin, 81 transactions were made for an exchange of over 10 thousand dollars.
About a third of the users was his “first time” with Bitcoin. In fact, the ATM can be used even by those who do not yet have an account and decides to create an account to exchange money with the virtual currency. Created in 2009, Bitcoin currency is “encrypted” that can be purchased with traditional currency on the internet.
Use the peer-to-peer – that the exchange of files online – and it works with any central authority, nor with banks. The transaction management and the emission of Bitcoin is performed collectively by the network. A system that the U.S. authorities are trying to regulate for fear that you are hiding behind shady affairs and, in particular, turns of money laundering.
Problem returned to prominence about a month ago when the raid that closed Silk Road, the eBay of illegal drugs, has led to the arrest of its founder and manager William Ross Ulbricht and confiscation of well- $ 3.6 million of Bitcoin. Although not yet universally accepted, the currency of the web is still converts thanks to the increasing number of companies are beginning to accept it.
The last in order of time was Baidu, the “Google of China”. Its investors include Bitcoin also includes the Winklevoss twins, the “enemies” of Mark Zuckerberg who tried to claim authorship of Facebook. The focus of this coin – considered a “safe haven” post crisis – has grown especially this year, in the spring, when its price has doubled and then collapse in a few weeks prompting fears the outbreak of a bubble. Now the value is around $ 200.
SecondMarket In late September, the financial center jumped to the chronicles to allow investors to buy shares in private companies like Twitter, launched the first mutual fund in the portfolio with only Bitcoin. Even the Google Glass, not yet on the market, already have their first app to pay in Bitcoin. Recently, this coin has even made “millionaire” Norwegian student who in 2009 had bought the equivalent of $ 25 Bitcoin and then forget about it. The investment, returned to the memory thanks to a new wave of popularity of the coin, earned him 850 thousand dollars.
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