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8 years ago the world’s first Bitcoin ATM launched in a downtown Vancouver coffee shop. Here’s the inside story of how it happened.

8 years ago the world’s first Bitcoin ATM launched in a downtown Vancouver coffee shop. Here’s the inside story of how it happened.

We chatted with Mitchell Demeter, now president of Netcoins, about how he brought the ATM to Vancouver.

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8 years ago the world’s first Bitcoin ATM launched in a downtown Vancouver coffee shop. Here’s the inside story of how it happened.
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Opening day for the world’s first Bitcoin ATM eight years ago today.

The story of the world’s first Bitcoin ATM—the machine that opened in a Waves coffee shop smack dab in the middle of downtown Vancouver eight years ago today—starts in Reno, Nevada. (I wish I had some Bitcoin to gift anyone who was able to guess that.) Reno is as off the board a city as…

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