The first time I saw this chart was in 2018 when it was A LOT smaller, but I saw a unique opportunity here, an opportunity that no one else in my telecom company had seen either. Since then I've been working tirelessly to grow my clientele in this space, and so far its been very successful, and for some reason i'm still the only person in my company capitalizing on it, so please don't tell anyone about it, okay?
I'll never forget my first encounter with a prominent Bitcoin ATM Operator out of Miami, FL. I won't mention any names so lets just call him "Chuck". I cold called Chuck one day out of the blue and scheduled a meeting to come down to his office in Miami and pitch him on our LTE products and services. So I took the trip down, it was about an hour South on I-95 from my office in West Palm Beach and I went with my assistant, Andre. We finally pulled up and to our delight his office was overlooking Bay Biscayne in a fancy and "hip" new office building.
When we got to what seemed to be the correct number suite we knocked on a very empty looking door that showed no inclination that any company occupied the space. Chuck answered and we introduce ourselves (thankfully in the right place) & Chuck sprang right into this whole impressive tour right off the bat, we were amazed by all these things he was initially telling us. Things that he was doing currently and planned to do with the company. All over the floor surrounding the entire office space during his tour there were Bitcoin and ETH GPU Miners he mentioned he was using to offset the cost of his rent, he said " Since the energy at the building is completely free we're saving a $#!* ton on rent". It was pretty cool, Andre and I couldn't believe it! It was honestly probably the coolest thing i'd seen in a long time. Then he took us into the room where he held all the BTMs that were ready for deployment and I was honestly kind of drooling at that point, it was all just so cool to see, so new, so different.
Chuck concluded the tour to take us into the conference room where we would be for the next 2 hours. The first thing Chuck did was hook us up with some authentic cuban espresso shots and LaCroixs, (which I was very happy about) and he had explained that he was sorry he couldn't make it for a lunch meeting instead. Once he got us drinks and sat down with us, he asked us "Do you know why I took this meeting?" we looked at him with curiosity and asked why, he explained " I've been working with my vendor for years and years, but they've never come to my office to visit me". We immediately thanked him for the opportunity to sit down with him to talk, but we didn't start to talk about what we went there to talk about. We ought to just have had that lunch meeting because for the next 2 hours Chuck told us about BTCBITCOINBTC with zest and conviction about how it was the soundest money there is, how there will never be another 1st cryptocurrency in the future, and that Bitcoin was going to change the world. And he just went on and on and on about it, and I was on the edge of my seat, for 2 whole hours!
At the last 5 minutes we quickly went through what we were actually there to talk about and pitched him and he said he would let us know. We said our goodbyes and thanked Chuck for the time, and we were on our way. A week later I reached back out to check in and he sent me the signed contract. That sealed the deal as my first Bitcoin ATM client in early 2018. We would be providing internet connectivity via a SIM Card and a Router through my company,something completely essential and mandatory for kiosks to work. HUGE WIN! Since then the industry has grown like crazy, and so has my clientele! Its kind of mind boggling thinking back on it all, but also very cool. Being able to realize crypto gains indirectly at work has been a complete shift in business that I didn't expect either. When work involves something you're really passionate about, it becomes fun. Also kind of funny, all the names for these operators either include "Coin" "Bitcoin" or "crypto" so its really easy to mix them up upon referencing them from time to time lol.
Before speaking with Chuck I had owned a small amount of bitcoin and had made my first initial purchase, and I was already sold on Bitcoin as a legitimate currency/asset. But Chuck double sold me on it, and so I doubled downed at that point. After that I had been buying and buying, telling everyone to do the same. Chuck became a center of influence for me, introducing me to a very prominent figure in the space in person, Saifedean Ammous- what an awesome time meeting him and seeing him speak. I am so happy that I made that call to Chuck in the first place, its honestly changed a lot for me, and I have thanked him many times for it.
It is interesting to me because not only am I betting a very high stake on crypto in and of itself , but I've also managed to transfer this exponential growth and "Bitcoin betting" to my professional life and now is is a big part of my livelihood here. I really shouldn't even call it a bet because I (just as you) are very bullish on bitcoin! Bitcoin ATMs are still in the wild wild west phase, but this glimpse of exponential growth is about to get much, much larger! What you're going to do about it is your decision, as for me, i'm doubling down!!!