On October 29, 2013, the world's first Bitcoin ATM came online at Waves Coffee House in Vancouver. Walk-up. Insert cash. Receive Bitcoin. Simple in concept, world-changing in practice.
BBC, Bloomberg, Wired, the Wall Street Journal — they all came to see it. Bitcoin spiked to $1,300 in the weeks that followed. For the first time, crypto wasn't just an idea on a screen. It was money you could touch.
That ATM is now a museum piece. This one isn't.