Preparing For Law To Take Effect, Athena Begins Installing 1,500 Bitcoin ATMs...

Preparing For Law To Take Effect, Athena Begins Installing 1,500 Bitcoin ATMs...

A Bitcoin ATM company has reportedly started deploying 1,500 of its machines to help El Salvador become a BTC nation.Bitcoin ATM company Athena Bitcoin has reportedly started installing the 1,500 bitcoin ATMs it promised the country's president after a law making BTC a legal tender in the nation was approved.El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele "presented us with a tough challenge of 1,500 ATMs, we will go for that, but in phases. We are a private company and we want to ensure that our development in the country is sustainable," Athena Bitcoin director for Latin America Matias Goldenhörn....


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