How do bitcoin ATMs work? How easy is it to spend bitcoin? Some will allow you to transfer both ones, but ATMs in most countries are often one-way "vending machines." Circulating bitcoin helps grow the economy. I get paid in bitcoin and I pay others in bitcoin. There are many things you can buy with bitcoin, including flights, hotels, and products on Amazon. Bitcoin is first and foremost the currency of the internet.
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0:00 I was actually surprised when last summer I went to Málaga, Spain, and in a shopping centre, there was an ATM machine. It said, "Get your Bitcoin here" or "Get your money here for Bitcoin". So what do they actually give you?
1:23 Where can you spend it? How can you get dirty old paper money with your bitcoin? There's a lot of banks that won't give you the old money for it.
2:13 A lot of people think of bitcoin as something you buy and then sell, or invest in, and that's the wrong way to think about it
This talk took place at the Internet Days ("Internetdagarna") conference during November 20-21st 2017 at the Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm, Sweden: https://antonopoulos.com/event/the-in...
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