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.
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…