Bitcoin ATMs allow customers to purchase cryptocurrency
using cash or a debit card, while some also let users to exchange their crypto
holdings for cash.
According to data from the Coin ATM radar website, which
tracks the location of crypto ATMs, Spain has 158 such machines, the highest
number in Europe.
Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra police force said an ATM had
been stolen at around 3 a.m. and declined to provide any more information to
avoid hindering the investigation.
Citing police sources, EFE news agency said thieves took the
bitcoin ATM from a shop on Beethoven street in the Sarria area, home to a
branch of the GBTC cryptocurrency exchange.
GBTC did not return multiple requests for comment and the
police declined to confirm the exact location of the robbery.
An unverified video purporting to show the crime showed an
SUV ramming into the closed shutters of the GBTC storefront before half a dozen
or so people in hoods carried the cash machine into a second car waiting on the
street.
One of the assailants sprayed a fire extinguisher at
onlookers as the two cars sped off into the night.
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