Bitcoin Atms Reprise a Painful History in Finance
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The article discusses how Bitcoin ATMs are exploiting low-income neighborhoods with high transaction costs and limited liquidity.
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gandalfianAuthor
4 months ago
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In low income neighborhoods they make it easy to turn money into bitcoin but with high transaction costs and hard to turn the bitcoin back into cash. It is not a perspective that had occurred to me before.
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