I want to install a bitcoin machine at my family pawn and gold shop. They know little about computers and bitcoins, but a lot about cash and security. Is there a self service, wifi bitcoin scanner+printer machine for around $1000 that I can buy for them?
I can help them put another $1000 in a bitcoin wallet and link them up to fund it, then if customers sell bitcoin it could print a cash receipt for them to pay out in cash from their existing till. If customers buy, then the shop owner can take the cash and enter a password for the customer or something.
Two features I want are easy for customers and easy for shopkeepers. Low limit transactions under $300 is fine. I want it to work with no third party company. It should communicate to public bitcoin only. Even no fee is fine, but im sure the software can build in an adjustable fee or selectable conv rates. In this way they can trade merchandise or gold without cash and ID customers on their own without a 3rd party company. Altcoin is also ok.
I could teach them how to use blockchain.info, bitaddress.org, a handheld scanner and printer to do the same thing. I may have to. There is some magic in customers interacting with a machine directly though. Bitcoin is all about letting the (software) machine do the work, instead of people like governments and bankers. A machine for the initial customer interaction may be worth $1,000 here compared to a human teller only. Full machines are $5-10K. I don't think I'm ready for that investment yet.