Check out this Bitcoin Vending Machine. Very cool. Anyone see these around yet?

David Donner · Dec 24, 2021

Anyone see these around yet?

OptionsOptionsOptions · Dec 24, 2021

Old news - they have been around for about 5 years.
There is one at the Waves Coffee shop on Howe Street in Vancouver, Canada.

David Donner · Dec 24, 2021

OptionsOptionsOptions said:
Old news - they have been around for about 5 years.

There is one at the Waves Coffee shop on Howe Street in Vancouver, Canada.

5 years?! holy cow. this is the first one I have seen in public. thanks for posting. I thought they were very rare.

Nobert · Dec 25, 2021

It's bit ironic that on machine it's written ,,Buy'' instead of ,,Pay with''.

Pekelo · Dec 25, 2021

I think originally you could also sell BTC at these machines, then that feature stopped.

Clubber Lang · Dec 25, 2021

I don’t understand why anyone would use that?
How is that easier than tapping a few buttons on your phone?
Plus the extra fees for the machine.
Makes no sense

SunTrader · Dec 26, 2021

Clubber Lang said:
I don’t understand why anyone would use that?
How is that easier than tapping a few buttons on your phone?
Plus the extra fees for the machine.
Makes no sense

But don't cha know there is one over at "Waves Coffee shop on Howe Street in Vancouver, Canada". Right by the Court House - bail someone out while you are there, just a hop, skip and jump .......... 1000's of friggen miles away from most of us. And then there is the Covid border thingie nowadays.

Overnight · Dec 26, 2021

Clubber Lang said:
I don’t understand why anyone would use that?
How is that easier than tapping a few buttons on your phone?
Plus the extra fees for the machine.
Makes no sense

It's called "impulse shopping placement". A sneaky tactic in retail merchandising circles that actually works.

mlawson71 · Dec 31, 2021

I have never seen one in real life, only on pictures and videos.

Slope Trader · Dec 31, 2021

David Donner said:
Anyone see these around yet?

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Was surprised to see that my HEB grocery store here in small town Texas has a machine in the front part of the store that allows one to buy Bitcoin.

HEB stores are ubiquitous throughout the state of Texas. Wondering if any others are seeing these machines in their grocery stores too... thinking that they are much more common than I realized :wtf: