Quote from: 20kevin20 on February 18, 2020, 10:12:38 PM

Quote from: Chris Barth on February 18, 2020, 09:00:41 PM

Lol, your perspective tho. However, it is clearly adoption because if it is not being adopted by the people in the country, why then would someone bring a Bitcoin ATM?
Well, I believe that an analysis was done and observing that people are moving into cryptocurrency, hence the step was taken.

I've probably used the wrong words and made it look like I see this new ATM installment as a negative thing. My bad.

What I meant is that I wish there were more merchants working on implementing Bitcoin rather than installing ATMs. As I've posted earlier today in another thread, ATMs usually take significant % as fees, especially for withdrawals, which is a huge drawback especially for a not-so-good economy like Nigeria's. I've looked up the ATM but I can't seem to find the % it takes for Buy & Sell at the moment, if you could find this information it would be awesome. Just wanted to compare the % to those I find in my country and around Europe.

The high % for withdrawals makes it very inconvenient for the poorer investors to sell their BTC, because they'll look (and I think everyone will, not just them) to maximize the total sum they'll end up with in their pockets. Hence, I'm thinking the economically disadvantaged countries such as Nigeria and Venezuela need a way to handle BTC with a % as close to 0 as possible. One way to do this is going for online exchanges. On the other side though, it just came into my mind that ATMs can be used to sell BTC when you're in an emergency.. so it's got both advantages and disadvantages.

My apologies for the words used. It seems that I fuck up my statements due to the words I use way more often than I should.

That's not an issue, I've been there before. I guess your pount happens to be more explanatory than earlier. Thanks!