It's a bitcoin vending machine. Owner of a bar/cafe/shop can accept bitcoins for payments and load them in this machine to convert them to cash. Those who want to spend bitcoins don't need to find those who want to buy them. Shops have easier way to accept and convert bitcoins into local currency => more places to spend bitcoins => more places where to buy bitcoins => more people using bitcoins => value grows => more…
The machine doesn't do BTC to cash, but rather the other way around.
Built for Bitcoin. Next Run: Early 2014
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When I said "owner can load BTC in machine to convert to cash", I meant that people from street will put in cash for his coins.
Re: Built for Bitcoin. Next Run: Early 2014
#32It's not a "Bitcoin ATM". It's a "Buy Bitcoins for cash" machine. And there is a huge difference. I'll get excited when I see a machine that DISPENSES cash for Bitcoin, anonymously. That will be a breakthrough. For the moment, in spite of many claims, Bitcoin remains the most easily trackable currency and there is no way that I know of to get money out of the Bitcoin system in a way that can't be tracked.
> there is no way that I know of to get money out of the Bitcoin system in a way that can't be tracked. https://localbitcoins.com/ > LocalBitcoins.com is a marketplace for trading bitcoins locally to cash or online payments of your choice.
IANAL, but from my layperson's understanding of FinCEN's statements, selling bitcoins on localbitcoins.com (indeed, even offering to sell them) without a MSB license is a felony.
I deleted my profile on there when someone pointed that out to me.