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When I was in college, my brother and I debated buying some Bitcoin. At the time they were valued somewhere around $20. It seemed way too expensive to purchase. How naive we were! The price of asingle coin now tends to hover around $10,000.
Every Casino Needs a Bitcoin ATM Cratos Premium Hotel and Casino, Northern Cyprus, Kirenya (Girne) Crypto Technologies Ltd is said to develop “a unique technology for the fast and secure selling and buying of cryptocurrency for end users, insured by an American insurance company.” Reading through the extended description it seems that the. Bitcoin ATM (abbreviated as BATM) is a kiosk that allows a person to buy Bitcoin using an automatic teller machine. Some Bitcoin ATMs offer bi-directional functionality enabling both the purchase of Bitcoin as well as the sale of Bitcoin for cash. Bitcoin machines are not exactly the same as traditional ATMs but work in a similar fashion. Golden Gate Casino and the D were the first casinos in the world to accept bitcoin. We partnered with BitPay to process our transactions which has made it very easy to take bitcoin. Our processor converts the bitcoin to US Dollars and deposits in our bank account.
Bitcoin, in its early days, felt like little more than Monopoly money. It was a fascinating concept, but one that felt better suited to a sci-fi novel than any practical use. Turns out, that“Monopoly money” could’ve made a significant return on investment if I had been a little less shy of acquiring a couple of coins.
Fast forward to today, and the cryptocurrency landscape is shifting. Since those early days, the price has grown with a consistency nobody expected. Sure, tracking the rise and fall of Bitcoin’svalue can be unpredictable at times. As with any currency, there are some hiccups and fluctuations, but for the time being, Bitcoin’s popularity is growing
Bitcoin overall is still something of a niche interest, but its global hype and rise in value have placed it firmly in the mainstream chatter. We aren’t quite yet buying delivery pizza withBitcoin regularly, but as a culture, we’re getting closer to that reality.
Naturally, Las Vegas is taking an interest in Bitcoin as well. Bitcoin ATMs are slowly cropping up around the city. While most casinos are still wary of the currency’s volatility, more and moreare shifting to a Bitcoin-friendly stance. Chief among these locations are the Golden Gate and The D. So far, these are the only two spots that accept Bitcoin as payment for services.
Despite the warnings of the Israeli regulator that it won’t tolerate bitcoin to get somehow backdoor listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, public companies keep pivoting into the field. The latest example is a firm that focused on oil refineries until now. All of a sudden it announced plans to sell bitcoin ATMs to casinos in Turkish occupied Northern Cyprus, and possibly Nigeria.
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Chiron Refineries LTD (TASE:CHR), a company which focuses on developing oil refineries in Africa, has announced to investors on Tuesday morning that it is entering the cryptocurrency market and its stock price quickly jumped up close to 60%. After an apparent prodding by the regulator the company issued a second announcement at the end of the trading day with extra information about the move.
Chiron, which only on Sunday reported an agreement to build a new oil refinery in Nigeria, has now decided to diversify its business into the “cryptocurrency accessibility” sector. The company signed an agreement with Crypto Technologies Ltd to set up a subsidiary in Northern Cyprus (the Turkish occupied part of the island), to be the sole distributor of its produces in the territory as well as Turkey itself. It also acquired an option to expand the distribution business to Nigeria within 12 months of the agreement.
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Crypto Technologies Ltd is said to develop “a unique technology for the fast and secure selling and buying of cryptocurrency for end users, insured by an American insurance company.” Reading through the extended description it seems that the main product is an app which turns mobile tablets into bitcoin ATMs. It will supposedly be ready for distribution by the coming April.
Trying to assuage the regulator’s fears, Chiron added that the UI and the trading algorithm via APIs have already been developed, that it is unaware of any legal bans on cryptocurrencies in the intended regions and that it will not hold or mine bitcoin by itself. Additionally, the company explained that the potential clients for the products are not individuals but businesses, like casinos. Asked by Israeli media what connection the oil company has to any of this, Chiron’s lawyer explained that one of the owners has connections in Northern Cyprus and experience in the casino business.
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