Safello has installed the Europe’s first BITCOIN Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Helsinki, Finland. Earlier Safello had announced that it would install the ATM in suburban Stockholm, Sweden but Finland has beaten Sweden to the game and thus becomes the first place in Europe to get a PERMANENT Bitcoin ATM.





There are two Bitcoin ATMs in Sw eden and Slovakia, but they are temporary structures and this appears to be the first permanent ATM in Europe. The ATM has been installed in a record store at the Helsinki Railway Station.





Bittiraha the back-end infrastructure provider for the ATM said that it chose the record store near the Helsinki Railway Station because of the footfalls it gets. T he railway station is one of the busiest spots in the Finland and Europe and gets an estimated 200,000 footfalls through the lobby every day. The record store where the ATM has been installed is called Levykauppa Ax and it hopes to garner positive publicity in wake of this installation. Its commercial director Jyri Lipponen said at the launch that

“Actually, we aren’t sure about anything when it comes to bitcoin, but we most definitely want to participate in anything which could shake up the traditional foundations of society.”