They might still not know that BTC is a digital money, mostly those thieves due to lack of knowledge they only resort their living to do bad activity as they were not given opportunity to have their own job or worst too lazy to find their own job for living. In my country for sure they will not mind if its a bitcoin or cash as long as it looks like a ATM machine thieves will attack it or even if it is jus any vending machines.

I wouldn't be surprised if they actually believed the first one. However, I'm not exactly sure if the robbery of the ATM being a Bitcoin type one was intended, or just grabbed the opportunity to steal any random ATM. Clueless on how popular they are elsewhere, but they are a pretty rare sighting where I live.

could try 2 of 3 multisig plus passphrase in a couple different bank deposit boxes (in different towns/states) plus one hidden at home maybe. or variants of this. while a government or TLA etc could confiscate all of the deposit boxes the odds of a straight criminal robbery getting 2 of the 3 before you can xfer the coins to elsewhere is pretty low.

Well perhaps there is a big amount of cash who was bought bitcoin at that time and the thieves know this because if the thieves stole bitcoin ATM for the bitcoin itself, I don't know how they will get the bitcoin since it is protected by the private key and seed phrase on the machine not unless if there is a key inside the machine which is we never know how was that will going on. So believe there is big cash there that make the thieves attack and stole the bitcoin ATM. Possibly it will happen again in the future, store bitcoin machine owner should secure their ATM machines inside the store and not on the outside and it should have a security guard.

They don't know it and might these thieves think there is money inside. Once they arrive at their meeting place, there to find how stupid they are and being ignorant to Bitcoin ATM. Maybe they got lucky if someone put their private keys...lol
I think all the stores must have to secure their ATMs in order to avoid them from happening again. In this pandemic situation, a lot of people are getting obsessed to get money and we have to anticipate this thing before it happens.

Definitely, they are not dumb to do this crime without planning and thinking of what was at stake. We won't know their ulterior motives, unless, they will disclose it to the public or the police will catch them. I haven't used a bitcoin ATM yet, so I don't know what kind of vulnerability that a user will encounter in case the ATM he used is compromised. But more than likely these thieves already did their homework before pulling this act.

I am sure that the offender will be arrested. There are security cameras that will help solve the case. From what I can observe is that the criminal preferred the bitcoin ATM under the assumption that there would be a lot of cash. I do not see it as a propaganda against bitcoin hopefully I am not wrong. The criminal act may have been repeated on other occasions in any part of the world but this time it was made public.

Looking at the way Scott emphasized on the Bitcoin ATM, I think what he wanted for us to understand is that the thieves were selective for some reason; they saw the Bitcoin ATM of greater importance than the cash ATM. People steal valuable things right? and cash ATM being left behind shows it's losing its value.

Perhaps they know that there are camera's that's why the try to hide their faces, and the plate number is somewhat blurred but we can see the first 3 letters. It's because the Fiat ATM manufacture has made a lot of improvement throughout the years that robbers are not targeting them anymore. But then again, this are criminals, maybe they think that they can find BTC inside, sweep the private key, but they are totally wrong.

I can not imagine their impression after they are in the safe house and trying to search for the money

But they do not think much about the ATM itself and maybe they see much news about bitcoin and think that bitcoin is like cash which has a psychical form. Hopefully, it will not happen in the future and in other places.

But it is a crime that needs police to investigate who was behind that robbery.