+bitcoin ATMs poping up everywhere like shrooms in autumn.
Like shrooms that try to viciously rape you, that is. Have you seen the fees?
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local decentralized service is sustainable this way, so it is good enough for me.
+ any local fiat exchange sets higher fees due to the immediate service they operate.
bitcoin is precious.
its price derived from top 5 bitcoin centralized exchanges is mostly IOUs within their offchain records until you withdraw them. + there is always the risk of being GOXed, marked by Govs, etc..
also imho the price these centralized internet exchanges (conflated with insider trading and robots) set is irrelevant considering the low volume (
https://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=24h ) compared with 13M bitcoins actually in circulation.
if you are a big fish, there is always bitcoin-otc, wot and other 'safe' measures to get some (whilst you can)