"Be Okay" installs the first Bitcoin ATM in Paraguay
Bitcoin is starting to become a household name when speaking of online payments and its expansion is spreading not only through the United States, but throughout the world. Latin America, however, seems to be embracing it while other countries seem to resent the idea of decentralization. News from Paraguay is that the first Bitcoin ATM will be installed in a restaurant named “Be Okay” meaning that the restaurant becomes the first business in Paraguay to accept bitcoin. The Bitcoin ATM was installed by the actual owner of the restaurant, Juanjo Benitez Rickmann, who happens to be a bitcoin....
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