Robocoin Bitcoin ATM Does $100,000 in Transactions in First 8 Days of Operation

Robocoin Bitcoin ATM Does $100,000 in Transactions in First 8 Days of Operation

Courtesy: blog.robocoinkiosk.com. We've been talking quite a bit about the Robocoin bitcoin ATM in a downtown Vancouver cafe. In one day, the ATM saw about $10,000 in transactions - that is, people buying and selling bitcoin. Fast-forward a bit over a week later and you get an equally as impressive number. In the first 8 days of operation, the Robocoin ATM has done about $100,000 in buys and sells, according to a Washington Post report. Eighty percent of the transactions on the Robocoin machine were buys, twenty percent were sells (obviously). Waves Coffee, the cafe in which the first....


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