@mark81 We are not building our own ATM machines, we are rebranding existing multi-coin machines from third-party providers.
It's not about me, it's about the rest who have no idea what cryptocurrencies are.
Actually it is about you, after all, you are the first person to post such a vehemently anti-Cyprus statement on this subject.
I will take each point in turn:
Even before Neo and Bee opened in Cyprus, every single politician in Cyprus was laughing on bitcoins.
That politicians may laugh at the notion of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is irrelevant. The same can be said for almost every jurisdiction in the world when first learning of the technology. It is not a metric by which one can judge anything other than the hubris of some in positions of political power.
72% of Cypriots use the internet and of those only 35% uses the internet for electronic payments, commerce etc
This gives Cyprus the last position in the whole EU.
Last position for what, exactly? How does this relate to anything concerning a business aimed at those in a market who are already interested in technology and cryptocurrencies? Our aim is not to bring new users to the internet, it is to serve local internet users who are already aware of the existence of bitcoin.
People are still waiting in queues to pay utility bills where they could pay within 30 seconds from home.
So are you claiming nobody in Cyprus pays their bills online? Because that is just a monumentally bizarre assertion to employ to support your position. That, 'people' still pay at the utility office does not in any way translate into, 'nobody pays online'. How do you explain, then, the fact that the vast majority of road tax renewals are paid online? Surely if your condemnation of the state of the use of online services in Cyprus bore any truth then the only a handful of renewals would be?
They don't even trust simple bank online transactions, how do you expect they understand and accept cryptocurrencies?
Again with a bold assertion that serves to provide for nothing other than the vague claim that 'they' don't 'trust' online bank transfers. How does that correlate with the fact that almost everybody and every business I know uses online banking services here? Your 'fact' might have been more accurate had you posted it ten years ago.
Going beyond your anti-Cyprus rhetoric you appear to be monumentally ignorant of one particular key market sector, wealthy ex-pat communities from Russia and numerous other countries. Cyprus had, for many years, a booming offshore-financial-services sector and, while EU membership put paid to many aspects of that, it still retains many benefits to investors and high-net-worth individuals. These are the primary market we intend to serve initially.
Nothing in our business plan is related to bringing cryptocurrency to the 'masses' locally, merely that we wish to provide an introduction to multi-faceted cryptocurrency services and an easy on/off-ramp for fiat<>crypto to our target market here.
You misunderstood what I said.
I have never said everybody in Cyprus doesn't use online payments. I have said 72% of the population uses the internet and of those, 35% make online transactions (paying bills, NOT waiting in bank queues etc).
That shows they don't trust online payments.
I am not using anti-Cyprus rhetoric, I am not ignorant as I am Cypriot living in Cyprus and this is what I see in everyday's life.
I hope you can read Greek and be able to read a recent article here
http://www.typos.com.cy/cat/1/article/11822I quote something from there:
Ωστόσo, μπoρεί oι Kύπριoι να είναι ενθoυσιώδεις χρήστες τoυ διαδικτύoυ για τις παραπάνω δραστηριότητες, δείχνoυν όμως μεγάλη απρoθυμία να πραγματoπoιήσoυν oπoιαδήπoτε ηλεκτρoνική συναλλαγή, πιθανώς λόγω έλλειψης εμπιστoσύνης.
Translation:
However, Cypriots may be enthusiastic internet users for these activities, but they are unwilling to make any online transaction, probably due to lack of confidence.
As you can see, "anti-Cyprus" researches (performed by EU) showed that too.
Again, I wish your plans will be succesful and I will be one of the first people who might use the ATM.