Australia overtakes El Salvador to become 4th largest crypto ATM hub

El Salvador, the primary nation to legalize Bitcoin (BTC), has been pushed down yet one more spot in whole crypto ATM installations as Australia information 216 ATMs entering into the 12 months 2023.

As a part of El Salvador’s drive to ascertain Bitcoin as a authorized tender, President Nayib Bukele had determined to put in over 200 crypto ATMs throughout the nation. Whereas this transfer made El Salvador the third largest crypto ATM hub at the time after the US and Canada in September 2021, Spain and Australia overtook the Central American nation’s ATM rely in 2022.

On October 2022, Cointelegraph reported that Spain turned the third-largest crypto ATM hub after putting in 215 crypto ATMs. Nonetheless, Spain continued its set up drive and is dwelling to 226 crypto ATMs on the time of writing. El Salvador’s place because the fourth-largest crypto ATM hub was short-lived as Australia stepped up its recreation over the next months.

Within the final three months of 2022, Australia deployed 99 crypto ATMs, confirms data from CoinATMRadar. As of Jan. 1, 2023, Australia recorded 219 energetic crypto ATMs, overshadowing El Salvador by 7 ATMs on the time of writing.

Australia represents 0.6% of world crypto ATM installations and, at this charge, is well-positioned to take over Asia’s crypto ATM numbers, which stand at 312 ATMs. The whole variety of crypto ATMs worldwide is 38,602, out of which 6,071 ATMs have been put in in 2022 alone.

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Nigeria’s drive to impose the adoption of an in-house central financial institution digital forex (CBDC) — eNaira — compelled the federal government to restrict ATM money withdrawals to $225 (100,000 nairas) every week.

“Clients ought to be inspired to make use of various channels (Web banking, cell banking apps, USSD, playing cards/POS, eNaira, and so forth.) to conduct their banking transactions,” famous Haruna Mustafa, the director of banking supervision, whereas saying the drive.