The £150 ATM, Benefits of Risky Futures, and Bitcoin's Common Touch
Welcome to the CoinDesk Weekly Review 17th January 2014 - a regular look at the hottest, most controversial and thought-provoking events in the world of digital currency through the eyes of skepticism and wonder. Your host ... John Law. ATM by numbers. Bitcoin ATMs are hotting up: Lamassu and Robocoin are making them, Taiwan's banned them, New York's thinking about licensing them, and now Skyhook's doing a $1,000 model that's open source - anyone who fancies making their own can do so using Skyhook's design. But how much would that cost? Well, there's not very much in a bitcoin ATM. The....
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