Brooklyn Cafe, in very very very East Williamsburg. via Daily Record Earlier this week we learned a Brooklyn native is planning to install New York’s first bitcoin ATM machine in an East Village bubble tea shop. So far Bitcoin is accepted at Lean Crust and Greene Avenue Market, both in Fort Greene, and today Scotland’s STV reports Glasgow’s Brooklyn Cafe is now the first shop in Scotland to use Bitcoin. Is Brooklyn leading the Bitcoin revolution? Probably not, but we’re still gonna go with it. We imagine the interest in Bitcoin by Brooklynites/Scottish cafes that use the Brooklyn brand comes down to Brooklyn hipsters really wanting to bite their thumbs at Manhattan bankers. For the many of us who don’t see the difference between these and Super Mario Bros. coins, Bitcoin is basically money without banks. It’s a decentralized digital currency and since it doesn’t require a bank for transactions, transfers are free, faster than using a… Read More
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