Gallery: Robocoin, Italian Bitcoin Community Celebrate 'No Cash Day'
The fourth annual No Cash Day, a digital payment awareness initiative started by Italian lobbying group Cashless Way, took place in Rome on 27th June, with this year's event placing a special emphasis on bitcoin and its related technologies. No Cash Day found Cashless Way organising the second of two discussions on bitcoin that took place in Italy's House of Parliament this June, with the most recent including notable community members such as Robocoin CEO Jordan Kelley and Italian parliament member Sergio Boccadutri, who also served as the event's promoter. Boccadutri has been....
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Las Vegas-based Robocoin has announced that CEO Jordan Kelley is enroute to Rome to present to the Italian Parliament and launch the first bitcoin ATM in Italy on the 26th of June. On the matter, Kelley said that "this is an opportunity to help educate and have meaningful conversations with Italy's influential government. Italy is full of cultural tastemakers and has a rich history in banking and finance. These all support Robocoin's goal of helping proliferate Bitcoin." Specifically, Kelley is said to be presenting the Robocoin's AML (anti-money laundering) and KYC (know-your-customer)....
Robocoin CEO Jordan Kelley will speak about bitcoin in a public hearing at the Italian parliament in Rome later this week, before demonstrating one of his company's bitcoin ATMs via live video stream. The 26th June meeting called 'Bitcoin in the Real Economy', will form part of the fourth annual 'No Cash Day' - a trademarked event promoted by Italian Parliament member Sergio Boccadutri and organized by CashlessWay, an e-payment lobby group. The news comes soon after the developers of Italy's first home-grown bitcoin ATM, CoinCapital and Bit-Wallet, met with a dozen lawmakers and....
Some news coming our way this morning from Las Vegas, Nevada-based Robocoin. The company has announced an almost brand-new start on a couple of fronts, as the company aims to better penetrate the bitcoin remittences market. First thing: the Robocoin Classic - the company's first ATM system - is getting a price drop of $5,000. That means operators can now pick one up for $15,000. Some would argue that's still expensive, but hey, it's a price drop. Robocoin Recyclers. The company took the opportunity this morning to introduce a family of Recycler systems, which according to Robocoin is....
Robocoin has developed a new ATM system that enables cash to be sent to another account or ATM without the high-cost that remittances usually carry. Bitcoin is up until now the best way to avoid the high cost of remittances and now Robocoin streamlined this process even further. Romit is Robocoin's new product and the developers have enabled a way to send cash through a Robocoin ATM to another ATM or merchant account at fees far lower than other remittance providers. Robocoin CEO Jordan Kelley, says: "Romit enables unprecedented low-cost global money transfers by leveraging Bitcoin's....
Courtesy: @Robocoin, Twitter. Last week I posted about the fact that the Robocoin ATM would be entering service out in the field for the first time in Vancouver. The day has come, and the first Robocoin ATM is now operating inside of a coffee shop. The ATM allows users to transact up to $2,000 USD per day and convert it to Bitcoin and vice-versa. It's an interesting concept, but the true test here will be just how well the machine fares in the future. Will it get much use? Will it often get mistaken for a cash machine? Robocoin has apparently sold more than one, so it's only a matter of....