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The device was strategically placed in the door 16, a transit area for latinos.The company reported that it will install 500 atms all over the world.Bitstop, the software company for ATM (Automated Teller Machine) of bitcoin, enabled from Tuesday October 15-a new device for the users of the Miami International Airport have the possibility of exchanging cash for bitcoin. The cashier is located strategically in the gate 16 (terminal G), required area of transit for travelers latinos.Through a press release, the company claims to have chosen the Miami Airport to install the atm of bitcoin because it is the third busiest in the united states. UU., in terms of international flights.In fact, the airport terminal Miami provides connectivity service to 62 cities of the USA. UU. and 115 international destinations, among which Brazil, Uk, Argentina, Spain and Mexico within the 10 international routes most traveled.In addition, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), the official agency for Tourism of Miami, reported at the beginning of 2019 that Miami registered a record in terms of visits of tourists, with a total of 16.5 million, which meant an increase in 2018 from 3.5%, compared with the previous year. According to the agency, Latin America continues to be the main market for international tourism of Miami, being the first three destinations: Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina.
₿? in action……. ? pic.twitter.com/qPeYL0UnoN— Bitstop (@bitstopofficial) October 15, 2019
Doug Carrillo, co-founder and Director of Strategy of Bitstop, commented:
Miami International Airport is also the gateway largest between the united States and Latin America and is one of the largest operations centers of the airlines in the united States.Doug Carrillo, co-founder and Strategy Director at Bitstop.
Carrillo added that more and more people prefer to travel with bitcoin in a wallet in place of cash for convenience and safety. ATMS allow you to perform operations of purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies using coins fiduciary.Atm for bitcoin, installed in the Airport of Miami, is the number 40 of these devices in the past two months, and it brings the total number of atms to 130 in all the territory of the united States, according to what reported by Bitstop.According to the statement, the company installed its first atm for bitcoin in 2015, precisely in Miami, plans to install a further 500 around the world, to the end of 2020. Meanwhile, according to the data provider of atms of cryptocurrencies Coin ATM Radar, until the day of today have been installed 5.754 devices in a total of 75 countries. The united states has more than half with 3.909 units in the world.In addition, the number of atms of cryptocurrencies all over the world has grown more than 400% from 2017. A process of expansion that contrasts with the declining trend of atms in banking, which began in from 2018.Before the boom experienced by the cryptocurrencies in the entire world emerged, these atms of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and although Latin america is one of the regions where the interest in the criptoactivos grows ever more, currently the region is only concentrated to 1.8% of the total number of atms installed globally. The countries with the highest growth in number of atms stationed in 2018 are Colombia and Argentina.