Robocoin Launches Custom Bitcoin Wallet Targeting Underbanked

Robocoin Launches Custom Bitcoin Wallet Targeting Underbanked

Robocoin has announced the launch of a custom bitcoin wallet for consumers called the Robocoin Wallet. The move finds the Las Vegas-based bitcoin services company in the midst of its ongoing evolution away from the bitcoin vending machines that dominate the bitcoin ATM market and toward a global remittance and bitcoin banking platform it calls "Robocoin 2.0", first announced in June. Speaking to CoinDesk, Robocoin CEO Jordan Kelley indicated that the Robocoin Wallet will allow the company to bring more of the essential services for its planned bitcoin banking and remittance network under....


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