Canberra latest addition to bitcoin boom with high-tech ATM

By Matthew Raggatt
Updated July 27 2014 - 10:08am, first published July 23 2014 - 4:15pm
ABA Technology director Robert Masters uses the ATM. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
ABA Technology director Robert Masters uses the ATM. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
Mr Masters keys in information using the ATM. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
Mr Masters keys in information using the ATM. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
Australian Bitcoin ATMs director Robert Masters uses Canberra's first Two-Way Bitcoin ATM at Canberra Centre. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
Australian Bitcoin ATMs director Robert Masters uses Canberra's first Two-Way Bitcoin ATM at Canberra Centre. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
Australian Bitcoin ATMs director Robert Masters uses Canberra's first Two-Way Bitcoin ATM at Canberra Centre. Photo by: Jamila Toderas
Australian Bitcoin ATMs director Robert Masters uses Canberra's first Two-Way Bitcoin ATM at Canberra Centre. Photo by: Jamila Toderas

At first glance it looks like any other ATM but Canberra is now home to a fingerprint-reading, face-scanning teller, after a bitcoin machine began operation at the Canberra Centre on Saturday.