i guess you've just added a new data point of why cash is being systematically eliminated and how the state is pushing total surveillance into every aspect of our lives :) 

aljaz

AskSN

Largest recent cash transaction?

south_korea_ln

This looks super cool.

It would be cool to set this up here in Korea, some way or another. Plenty of tourists end up with wads of KRW cash and coins that gather dust in their drawers back home. Korea is often a single trip destination, kinda like a "check-of-my-bucket-list-country". 

As i wrote this, I checked... the only BTC ATMs that are still in service require heavy KYC and are only to sell, but not to buy BTC. Probably a no-go as a DIY project at scale. Maybe just a service to friends~~