Believe me, 1% is nothing when buying and selling BTC. Its tough at the beginning to get used to high fees, but there's not many options if you want to stay anonymous. Even when you want to buy/sell from someone directly, people tend to ask for 1-2% fee. For me personally, everything up to 4-5% is ok. Realistically, even that is high but it is what it is.


It gives you the money depending on the official currency of the country where ATM is (like any other ATM machine), so in your case you will get dollars. I am from Croatia and I am getting our own currency ( Croatian kuna ) and next year we are getting euro so BTC ATM will adjust accordingly.