The potential to get scammed is huge though. What do you do if someone has already stolen all the private keys and put the packets back? It's untraceable and somewhat anonymous after all. I suppose you can in some situations scan the address and check the balance before buying.
People may get confused and think that a physical gold coloured coin is a Bitcoin. Why do they give those away anyway, for novelty value? Perhaps the private key is inside the coin. Again I would worry that someone would give me one of these coins with an empty address in it.
BTC Vending machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2K6nNj_LEE
Topic: Would you use an ATM machine to buy Bitcoins? - page 3. (Read 1953 times)
Absolutely! I think this is the BEST way to entice new bitcoin users to try it out.... if it is readily available, cheap, and easy to use, I think a lot of people will use it simply for the novelty of it
Sure, if it's cheap
Would you walk up to a machine and insert money if it spit out a bitcoin address (private key) with a predetermined amount of BTC on it?
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