I've read it about 3 days ago in Cointelegraph as Africa's  largest country is setting up a bitcoin Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in one of the place there and is planning to add more than 20 of ATMs across the the whole Nigeria. Nigerian government has been very uncertain on this move since they know how volatile the bitcoin is, but the fact that Nigerians are very knowledgeable about it, I can tell yes because there are lots of projects that have been developing in that country for a long time, so it might be less problematic for them to solve issues containing bitcoin. And maybe this time we should know belittle African countries, we already know the high poverty rate but it does not mean that they cannot do things like this.

Yes, that's cool. I remember creating a topic about it and posting the video on how it works here: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5226816. I knew it was at Lagos but... I didnt know the exact place. Neither did I know who brought it into play. Thanks for giving out those information. 🙂

Exactly! Something made me confused for a moment, I knew I read somewhere about the 1st ATM in Nigeria months (apparently only weeks) ago. But is it the same one I knew from the thread you've linked us to? Because otherwise it would be pretty unfair for that guy from March to be the 1st but not take credits from anyone for it.

The ATM from the March thread looks very similar to the design on the Blockstale official website (https://blockstale.com/) though.

Congrats, Nigeria!

Good news...
but I'm still curious about what will happen in Nigeria if BTC ATMs are circulating a lot there, are they increasingly helped or vice versa because of what I know they are still behind in education and technology compared to countries in Asia and Europe.

Many have been criticizing African countries as small and poor but here is the initiative and bomb that'll wake those who criticize them. As we all know, most countries in Africa have been struggling to keep up with deveoped and developing countries due to their weak government and system. But thinking of how Nigeria and other African countries put up and Automated Telling Machine for Bitcoin is already a big step. It shows how smart they are because this is certainly a way for them to cope up with their system. It'll affect other countries for sure and adopt the same system also. Who knows, that this small step can create a large impact for Bitcoin users and investors.

There is a saying that Dont judge a book by its cover the fact that they launch an bitcoin blockchain ATM means they improving, and if you will compare them to a lot country Im sure they are way more advancing. Technology is evolving and countrys are growing and fast track development and innovation.

I think their government are doing their utmost effort to caught up with the world. African regions showing their interest on blockchain and this is a good news already. One at a time can be good step.

This is one good step from a South african countries specially Nigeria that we have known to be one of the biggest Bitcoin user in that region.

African countries is promising in terms of cryptocurrencies and they are getting larger as years goes by.

actually i have seen this days ago in Cointelegraph but did not even bother to read(maybe i have something important reading that time)
thanks for the share OP.

Also, planning to install about 30 btc ATMs is a lot for one country. I hope they will really use it and not just a display machine. But in any case, if people will see that they have bitcoin ATMs, I think they will try to learn about crypto and how to transact using bitcoin. If it is already infront of them, they will at least be curious about it.

Great news, and proof that the interest in Bitcoin ATMs keeps growing. I was dead sure there would have been one already in Lagos before so it is a bit of a surprise that this is only the first one... just a bit of an unfortunate name don't you think though? Blockstale. Or is that meant to be Blocks Tale?

This kind of progress is very important to crypto community because the crypto users the same with investors will surely grow if they have the easiest way to cash out, cash in and convert their crypto money into fiat and vice versa. I also heard that our country is planning to launch a bitcoin ATM and I am hoping that it will come into reality someday so many users will become curious about crypto currencies.

Congrats to Nigeria that they are very open to crypto currencies and I am sure users in Nigeria will be very happy to this announce as they can easily cash out their crypto earning.