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 I imagine it sitting on counter tops of shops that accept Bitcoin. But open to ideas?! Can be wall mounted too. Working on a metal case version. 
 Aaah I see! It's for buying sats, not selling, got it 👌🏼 I can imagine more use cases for a sats to cash version of the machine due to all retailers already accepting cash (is that something we might get in 5he future?), but I guess if a retailer is interested in hosting a machine like this they will probably just accept sats anyway making that kind of machine redundant... but this cash to sats version is surely better for driving adoption 👍🏻 I love to see this kind of innovation 👍🏻 
 A machine that could do both would be pretty cool! This would need a cash recycler (accepts and dispenses). Although depending on demand might be more of a security concern as more cash sitting in it. 
 It would definitely be a higher risk target, but I guess if it's secured within a business and left emptied and visibly open every night the risks could be minimized as with conventional ATM's. I would love to see these appearing in my local convenience stores! 😅 have you looked into the legality of hosting these devices? 
 Whoever is running it could set up alerts to just go empty it whenever amount taken reaches a certain value.

In terms of legality, I think *technically* you need a money transmitter license in the UK - although at the same time they say #Bitcoin isn’t money - so not sure. I think however, for small amounts to friends and family that’s ok.

Technically you could run these in stealth mode as no KYC to run a node that dishes out the Sats with the operator unknown?! ;-) 
 Stealth (or even not) ATMs cropping up on BTC Maps would be pretty cool :-)