Bitcoin ATMs reprise a painful history in finance

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gandalfian · 4h ago

https://archive.ph/e0bZK In low income neighborhoods they make it easy to turn money into bitcoin but with high transaction costs and hard to turn the bitcoin back into cash. It is not a perspective that had occurred to me before.

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Bitcoin ATMs reprise a painful history in finance

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