I see them now and again. Used one in Vienna last year

It's great maybe in the future is implemented to all ATM

Are Bitcoin atms dead now all over the world or just in the US?

It was also a step for me earlier in my journey...quickly realized that the ATM exchange rate was universally awful. 

Recently saw that the supermarkets in Texas pulled all their Bitcoin ATMs. Just too easy to buy online these days?

Scoresby

I gave my thoughts on this book last month (https://stacker.news/items/1413116/r/denlillaapan)

 jfc)... and Fischer sure kept me entertained, throughout the 190-ish pages. I said:

I'll keep reading for as long as Fischer stays interesting: If on more than two or three pages when he doesn't make me chuckle, I'm out. And shockingly, Mr. Fischer mostly keps his end of the bargain. He gets close a few times, explaining why my notes and commentary are scattered between now and six months ago. Across boring flights (mostly) or train rides when I can't be bothered to pick up an actual book, I'm laughing along to this strange author's imagination/lived experience.

r(!) about the writing process, what Bitcoin books are like, the experience of crypto.

Much of Fischer's inspiration here comes, not directly from being involved for long in "crypto" but mostly 2022-23 -- and you can certainly tell the maximalist-type characters, the jaded OGs etc in the book.

Fischer's beginnings came from watching Max Keiser back in the day, and then actually getting some corn from a Bitcoin ATM in London. Neat tidbit.

What emerges from this convo is that Fischer 

 to write an ordinary, boring, run-of-the-mills nonfiction Bitcoin book, explaining and exploring and educating what this thing 

... but, as he puts it in the show, he realized he's a fiction writer so might as well use that.

Some peeps in here will be annoyed at Rizzo's extravagant

 satiric... but not so sure about the "great" and 

The novel is set, you know... because I'm basically a Londoner, part of the novel is set in London.

That's the sort of the earlier part of the book that's set in you know the 80s and 90s, and then the other half is set in Dubai -- where as certainly European crypto people/influencers/investors have moved because 

it's sunny and very favorable tax conditions

He seems altogether a bit hesitant that this "crypto thing" will all work out, and admits that very little is based on his own experience -- mostly watching YouTube and observing people from afar. 

Characters are "amalgam from a mixture of various people"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lJdbOv-8Y

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I gave my thoughts on this book last month (https://stacker.news/items/1413116/r/denlillaapan)
(_I misspelled the author's name?!_ jfc)... and Fischer sure kept me entertained, throughout the 190-ish pages. I said:  
> I'll keep reading for as long as Fischer stays interesting: If on more than two or three pages when he doesn't make me chuckle, I'm out. And shockingly, Mr. Fischer mostly keps his end of the bargain. He gets close a few times, explaining why my notes and commentary are scattered between now and six months ago. Across boring flights (mostly) or train rides when I can't be bothered to pick up an actual book, I'm laughing along to this strange author's imagination/lived experience.

Here's Mr. Rizzo talking to Tib**o**r(!) about the writing process, what Bitcoin books are like, the experience of crypto. 

Much of Fischer's inspiration here comes, not directly from being involved for long in "crypto" but mostly 2022-23 -- and you can certainly tell the maximalist-type characters, the jaded OGs etc in the book. 

Fischer's beginnings came from watching Max Keiser back in the day, and then actually getting some corn from a Bitcoin ATM in London. Neat tidbit. 

What emerges from this convo is that Fischer _wanted_ to write an ordinary, boring, run-of-the-mills nonfiction Bitcoin book, explaining and exploring and educating what this thing _is_... but, as he puts it in the show, he realized he's a fiction writer so might as well use that. 

Some peeps in here will be annoyed at Rizzo's extravagant
> "...described by some as **the first great Bitcoin novel**, a 'darkly comedic satire'."

It _is_ satiric... but not so sure about the "great" and _def_ not the first. 

>  The novel is set, you know... because I'm basically a Londoner, part of the novel is set in London.
That's the sort of the earlier part of the book that's set in you know the 80s and 90s, and then the other half is set in Dubai -- where as certainly European crypto people/influencers/investors have moved because **it's sunny and very favorable tax conditions**.

He seems altogether a bit hesitant that this "crypto thing" will all work out, and admits that very little is based on his own experience -- mostly watching YouTube and observing people from afar. _Characters are "amalgam from a mixture of various people"_ etc. 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lJdbOv-8Y

"I hope they get entertained""I hope they get entertained"