The Great Robocoin Rip-off

FhnuZoag writes: Last year, Andrew Wilkinson, founder of MetaLab, bought a Robocoin Bitcoin ATM, figuring it would be a fun little side project and a good way to help move Bitcoin forward. It did not quite turn out that way. He has now written a timeline of the 10-month, $25,000(CAD) struggle. In short: there was a massive shipping delay, a $2,000 charge to clear customs, no knowledge base, unhelpful support, and the ATM itself flat out didn't work.

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was it made...

[Anonymous Coward]

by butterfly labs??? that would explain it

A bitcoin product was a scam?

[Anonymous Coward]

Good heavens never saw that one coming!

3646'41.7"N 11925'04.6"W

[TsuruchiBrian]

I tried to find the nearest robocoin kiosk to see if it was possible to witness one of these things in person. The nearest one is in "Los Angeles" California. More specifically it is at this Latitude and Longitude 3646'41.7"N 11925'04.6"W which is along a desolate road with no name that runs along side the King River 20 miles outside of Fresno.

I was hoping for a bar or some other urban public space.

I really don't want to run into Jordan Kelley or anyone from his company in the middle of the desert with no witnesses.

Re:Always a chuckle

[ADRA]

No no no sir, clearly when we all live in a libertarian paradise, everyone will behave themselves and lift the world out of the socialist cesspool that we live in!

Re:Always a chuckle

[cusco]

Because of the thundering herds of lawyers that follow them around, since their answer to every obvious fault in their religion is "That would never happen because they would be sued!"