Liberty Teller launches their Second Bitcoin ATM in Boston
Talk to the average person about bitcoin and the response is usually the same. How on earth do I get Bitcoin? Well, co-founders Chris Yim and Kyle Powers are seeking to help connect the common man to access Bitcoins through their Liberty Teller organization. Having set up America's first Bitcoin ATM in South Station in Boston, MA earlier this year, Yim and Powers set up a second one Monday in Harvard Square. How does it work? The newly setup BTC kiosk in Harvard Square. Photo by the Liberty Teller Twitter Page. These kiosks are surprisingly simple to use. The Liberty Teller site explains....
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is now home to a new Liberty Teller bitcoin ATM, located at the MIT Coop store in Kendall Square, Cambridge, in an installation that marks MIT's first on-campus bitcoin ATM. The ATM launch represents another step in the development of what observers have labelled the development of the world's first "bitcoin economy" at MIT. Other aspects of the initiative include the distribution of $100 in bitcoin to undergraduates this coming fall, as well as the MIT Bitcoin Expo conference held in May. The MIT Coop is a member profit-sharing cooperative....