The End of an Era — but Honeybadger just getting started!

Hi Friends,

A little over 5 years ago the very first bitcoin ATM machine went live — ever — at a Waves coffee shop in downtown Vancouver.

I know, because i was there, and i have a picture from outside the glass looking in on the night before it went live. I would include it, but i can’t find it in my e-mail history right now. But whatever, it looked like this:

Here’s a wide view, ATM on the left, and in the deep bg the original office.

From inside office...

And the room...

(Leon apparently was looking for lost satoshis!)

What most people don’t know, however, is that the original founders of Bitcoiniacs (the operators of the machine at 900 Howe St) had their first, and thus the first, bitcoin office over by Granville Island near Kits...

Funnily, it’s actually in a Lane — like a “nice” alley!

I can remember buying bitcoin here before i really even knew how the wallet scanner worked, and when you had to pair it to a pc wallet, and also, being excited when btc jumped from $100 to $110 in a couple of days... 😳😁🤩

Here’s some btc prices i’ve celebrated since then

What a crazy good time the last 5 years has been being a bitcoin zealot! People are still sceptical, cynical, ignorant and daft — but few are calling it a Ponzi scheme anymore. Although, the general public is still woefully ignorant of blockchain tech.

But whoah, whoah, whoah... i’m getting off track.

The gentleman who bought Bitcoiniacs a couple-three years ago from the original 3 dudes is my partner, and although he is the BIG boss, he an i are pretty close. Anyway, some shit went down, yadda yadda yadda, competition sic’d some unwanted heat on us re: the regulatory nature of having a money services biz operating out of a coffee shop, yadda yadda yadda, we’re moving out tomorrow morning!

The ATM will remain at 900 Howe, but the back office (where some serious tx and convos went down) will be no longer. Thankfully we can laugh at EVERYBODY ELSE in the Vancouver bitcoin scene because A: we have the best rates and B: we are not DBs and nor do we condone any Douchebaggery. Ironically, by giving up the “Flagship” office there is gonna’ be a lot of rent-money saved, and also, and more importantly, we are removing a target that was sure to be hit at some point, were it to remain — there was often A LOT of cash in that room, and no glass or partitions or anything! It’s amazing we never got jacked in the office!

Maybe all this is boring af to you, and if so i apologize and will cut this short. But i just thought a few of yaz out there might like to hear what it was like around here, when bitcoin came of age.

Cheers mofos/ettes! from @thedamus

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Sheeeit...