My guess is that, within Europe, separate charts for specific countries were created to enable a visual drill-down on some of the major countries where ATMs were making a significant rise, and reached a respectable volume (the view wasn’t
always like that).
Negative increases are decreases (there are less ATMs now in some countries than at the beginning of the year).
Currently, KYC will vary from country to country as per their regulations, and it could range from being necessary for any TX, to being necessary for TXs above a certain threshold. The KYC itself, when required, can sometimes be a scan of your Id, but in other instances providing a cell phone will suffice (you’d normally need to have it handy to complete the TX though, since they'd normally send you and SMS with a code that you need to complete the TX).
Oh, forget it. I missed that the 1st column is actually the most recent date. And 2nd column is the oldest date. I missed that detail when I first look at the table/chart and for instance for UK I was seeing 23 ATMs at the beginning of the year and 99 as of now. So, this would be an increase. However, the 3rd column is showing -76 which was weird to me. But I just noticed that the 1st column is is actually the most recent date! Forget it! :p
Why are some European countries separated from Europe even if they are part of Europe? Like Spain and Switzerland? Any special reason? Also, why is an increase in the number of ATMs represented as a negative number? Anyway, 2k machines in the USA is an amazing increase. I would like to see more in my own country, despite the fact that the fees are probably too high.
Does these machines have any kyc??
I think there we see separate countries just to stress where most of European ATM situated. If they post 1000 ATM in Europe, people might think that they would find an ATM in every European country, but in reality it might turn that 500 ATMs are in Spain, 499 in Austria and 1 in "rest Europe". For example it is said that Europe has 1378 ATM units, while there is 0 in my country and coinatmradar.com shows we have dozens of them (answer - little shops that accept Bitcoin (I havent checked that info) mark themselves (or coinatmradar does) as an ATM).
Yeah, maybe, probably. Anyway, an increase is always good. However, there is many people still concerned with KYC and high fees.