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Chicago Fast Becoming Bitcoin ATM Hot Spot with 30 New Machines

Rick Delafont
Rick Delafont
6 years ago
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It is no secret that Chicago’s history is intertwined with finance. It therefore comes as little surprise that the city seems to be embracing the coming Bitcoin and cryptocurrency revolution too.

Already home to proportionately large numbers of Bitcoin ATMs, Chicago is about to get a lot more, courtesy of Lux Vending. The decision was made to target the city based on its higher-than-average cryptocurrency adoption rates.

New Bitcoin ATMs Coming to Crypto-Friendly Chicago

According to a report in Chicago Business, the city is about to receive an additional 30 cryptocurrency ATMs. These will be provided by Lux Vending under the brand, Bitcoin Depot.

The new terminals will allow customers to trade physical dollars for Bitcoin, Ether, and other digital assets. They will join an ever-growing number of such machines in the city. However, Bitcoin Depot are not alone in providing ATMs to Chicago. Other startups have already setup shop in the area.

These include Red Leaf Chicago, who own 60 of the city’s machines. This represents 30% of their 200 machines currently operational across 21 states. Alongside Bitcoin Depot and Red Leaf Chicago is Athena Bitcoin. This startup only owns three ATMs in Chicago since it has set its sights further afield at the international market – particularly in South America, where digital assets are constantly gaining in popularity, largely through necessity.

Despite not choosing to target the city as heavily as others have done, the CEO of Athena Bitcoin, Eric Gravengaard, told Chicago Business that he could see why the location was popular based on “a large degree of adoption.”

The adoption that Gravengaard is referring to is largely driven by Chicago’s vibrant history with the financial industry. This has helped the city embrace cryptocurrency too. Such an embrace is particularly evidenced by the fact that local traditional exchange companies CBOE Global Markets and the CME Group both launched the United States’s first Bitcoin futures contracts late in 2017, at the height of that year’s bull run.

Other signs of Chicago’s warming to cryptocurrency include the large base of operations Coinbase has in the city and the number of crypto-related startups from there, such as ErisX and SeedCX – both of which are developing trading platforms of their own.

Could Bitcoin ATMs Drive Adoption More?

Although the proliferation of Bitcoin ATMs is certainly a net positive for the industry, they may not be as good for adoption as they appear on face value. This is because of the fees they charge. Bitcoin Depot machines reportedly require users to pay between ten and twenty percent of the total amount of dollars they wish to exchange for Bitcoin. Evidently, this is a large problem and will limit the use of such machines.

Bitcoin ATMs are becoming more commonplace globally. Do they really drive adoption though?

Take this, along with the fact that only 30% of Bitcoin Depot machines actually allow users to sell cryptocurrency back to the terminal, and it is very difficult to see a use case for the ATMs being installed in Chicago and elsewhere around the globe. There are many other ways that are just as quick and convenient to get exposure to digital assets. It does not matter what the purpose of that exposure is – shopping online or investing – no one wants between ten and twenty percent of their purchase amount to be immediately taken to cover fees.

 

Related Reading: Major Milestone: New York Licenses Bitcoin ATMs, Now Fully Regulated

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Based in Europe, Rick has written about the cryptocurrency industry since 2016. He was first drawn to Bitcoin as a means of payment but quickly became fascinated by its wider potential implications. His interests lie in the political, economic, and social impact of the unfolding digital asset revolution.

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