Ireland's First Bitcoin ATM Will Launch in a Dublin Cafe This Week

Ireland's First Bitcoin ATM Will Launch in a Dublin Cafe This Week

The venue for the ATM has now been moved to GSM Solutions, is fully installed and will launch at 10am on 13/03/2014. A Lamassu bitcoin ATM machine, from Irish provider BitVendo, is to be launched at Hippety's Cafe in the Temple Bar area of Dublin in the next few days. With the new ATM just a stone's throw from the Central Bank of Ireland, "there's no way the Irish banks can ignore bitcoin now", BitVendo, told CoinDesk. Coming hot on the heels of the installation of the UK's first bitcoin ATM in London, BitVendo say that it intends to roll out ATMs across Ireland and the UK, with three more....


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