Bitcoin Forum

The bitcoin Automated teller machines are used to buy and sell bitcoin, most ATMs can be used to sell bitcoin for cash and also can be used to buy bitcoin by depositing fiat money. To know more about bitcoin ATMs, you can read about it on Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_ATM)

In Africa currently, there are bitcoin ATMs in 9 countries and 17 in total, bitcoin is ganing more interests in Africa, we should expect increase in numbers of ATMs. They are located in South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Djibouti.

Lists of bitcoin ATMs in Africa

SN    Country         Operator                                   Location                                     Manufacturer                             Contacts     

1.    Botswana     ExpressMinds         Airport Junction Mall, PO BOX-                                                           info@expressminds.com
                                           Pty                   1600AAD Poso House, Gaborone                  Lamassu                +26773906083

2.     Djibouti               Eleyeh Issa           Djibouti one & strong (DOS)                        General Bytes            groupdos2016@gmail.com
                                                                    at Appart Hôtel Moulk Cent-                                                            +25377259291
                                                                    erroute de l’aéroport BP3648,
                                                                                       Djibout.                                                                           

3.     Ghana                     Thunder            Thunder Solutions Limited,                        1. General Bytes         thundersolutions@yahoo.com
                                        solutions            no 4 Ave Accra Ghana.                                  2. Lamassu              +233 20 829 8299

4.     Kenya                   BATMKenya        Kenrail Towers, Ring Rd Parkland.               General Bytes          atm@cryptokushminers.com
                                                                                                                                                                                 No phone support       
                                                                                                                                                                                                             

5.      South                 1. Ankerpay          Stellenbosch a Eikestad Mall,                         Ankerpay                info@ankerpay.com
         Africa                                                No 43 Andringa Street                                                                      +27661984607
                                                                    Stellenbosch, 7600 Cape Town                                   
                                                                    South Africa

                                     2. Ankerpay          Victoria Junction 8 Cape Town,                  General Bytes           info@ankerpay.com
                                                                    8001                                                                                                    +27661984607
 
                                     3. Cape Town      1st Floor 38 Wale Stree Cape Town,                                               info@ankerpay.com
                                         Bitcoin              South Africa                                                                                        +27735301188
                                                                                                                                                   
                                               
                                                                                                                   
                                     4. Willow               39 Carl Cronje Dr Tyger Valley Cape                                              info@ankerpay.com
                                         Bridge               Town, 7530 South Africa                                                                  +27661984607
                                                                             
                                     5. Bitcoin ATM      Unit U61a, Sandton City 83 Rivonia           General Byte             info@btcatm.co.za
                                         South Africa     Rd, Sandhurst Sandton, 2196 South                                              +27832979727
                                                                    Africa.
                                                           
                                     6. Lloyd                La Lucia Mall - RetroMod Technologies           Lamassu              info@bitmart.co.za
                                         Lopes               90 William Campbell Dr La Lucia 4051                                           0848517229
 
                                     7. Sasol                  Cnr Grafenheim st & Rachel de Beer                                             jef@sasolninapark.co.za
                                         Ninapark            Rd Ninapark, Pretoria012 0019984                                                012 0019984

                                     8. Savers               Corner West and Brits Pretoria South       General Bytes            dylan.sonemann@gmail.com
                                         Florauna            Africa                                                                                                   0125464131
                                                           
                                     9. Gleec-                1 Wedgewood Link Bryanston 2191         Bitcoin Teller              info@gleecbtc.com
                                          BTC OÜ.                              Johannesburg                                                                  +3728808000
                                   
                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                   
 
                                                                                                                                                             
6.     Nigeria              Blockstale           Dazey Lounge and Bar, No 80 Oke-ira                                              support@blockstale.com
                                                                     Ajah, Lagos 105101 Nigeria                                                           +2349044201930
                                                                           

7.      Uganda            KIPYA Bit2Big         Ugadan Post Office, at Plot 546 Ggaba                                       contact@bit2big.com
                                  as a bitcoin teller     Road Kampala, P.O BOX 24092 Uganda                                     00256414660779
                                  type of service             
                                                       
8.      Zimbabwe      GolixGolix                 Batanai Gardens at no 77 Jason Moyo     Genesis Coin          no support
                                                                      Ave Harare               



WARNING!  Scammers do scam using bitcoin ATMs, some can offer fake employment telling people to pay certain amount of bitcoin so to get employed. There are many other bitcoin scam:
https://coinatmradar.com/faq/#scam

There is still one other one I did not include as I did not see it on https://coinatmradar.com/countries/

Bitcoin ATM in Nelspruit South Africa

Operator: Bitmart
Location: Nelspruit South African.
Address: 39 Sitrus Crescent, Madison Square, Nelspruit Mpumalanga, South Africa
Manufacturer: Lamassu
Contact: info@bitmart.co.za

Glad to see that most of developing countries realized the value of bitcoin and allow to use Bitcoin ATM. On the other hand, feeling sad that my country still arresting crypto users. Bitcoin ATM could keep a major role in Bitcoin adoption. Its because we can buy sell bitcoin more easily. Otherwise, we must look for peer to peer or some exchange to buy sell bitcoin. To be honest I hadn't imagined that so many countries from Africa allowing Bitcoin ATM machine, just now noticed from OP. Good list by the way.

Wow! So, South Africa leads the pack? I was thinking either Kenya or Nigeria. Well, good a thing these things are even beginning to take shape in the Africa continent. Knowing full well how conservative our people are; once this crypto frenzy catches up with Africa, believe me the whole world will feel the impact. Africa likes to go in all out for what they want in respect to business after overcoming any initial skepticism. Good one, OP.

Good compilation but I think the format like this seems to be good, simple, and not crowded to read. Sorry but that's what I have seen.

Coinatmradar.com is a great tool to find bitcoin ATM anywhere across the world. It's easy to browse and find those details of the ATM not only for Africa.

I assume that you've come from the country of Africa, isn't it? I guess it seems to be good if you also post this into your local. Overall, that's a good work OP. Thank you.

I too was surprised, but in term of trading volume, Nigeria has the largest. But, more bitcoin ATMs will be installed in Nigeria. About Kenya, it is clear that South Africa has a higher trading volume. South Africa has the highest number of bitcoin ATMs and the first was installed as far back in 2014.

This is a great compilation. This proves the strength of Bitcoin in the Africa continent is strong enough, as day by day transactions increases so is the need for more ATM.
And in the case of Nigeria having just one ATM despite having the highest trading volume is a call for more ATM in the region.

Nice to find many ATM's in the African continent and in different countries. In Africa most of the northern countries banned bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, at the opposite the southern countries made it legal. And I am not surprised to see South Africa leading with ATM.

Great list by OP; the adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain has a lot of interest in the African community and it is been seen on several centralised exchanges and even on the forum how Africans are embracing the technology.

 
I don't think the numerous ATMs installed in SA are as a result of trading volume and mass adoption, it could be how those who own them were welcomed with open hands by the south African government. Reverse could be the case with the Nigerian government as we witnessed how they tried to ban Bitcoin back in 2018 using the CBN to regulate unnecessary rules and laws. As times goes on and much more adoption is been done many others will be installed here.

https://www.pulse.ng/bi/finance/finance-bitcoin-is-not-a-legal-tender-in-nigeria-cbn/qhg83k5.amp (https://www.pulse.ng/bi/finance/finance-bitcoin-is-not-a-legal-tender-in-nigeria-cbn/qhg83k5.amp)

clearly this is a news about the progress that has been made by countries in the african continent, it is not easy to accept the bitcoin atm may operate easily. in my country, recognition of bitcoin as a legitimate tool to be used as payment, cannot be issued yet.
whereas there are quite a lot of crypto followers but to give recognition as a legitimate medium of exchange is not yet brave, let alone to have to provide an atm machine. but the wonder for trade and exchange matters is there is no prohibition at all.

You are so right about this, but like you said bitcoin is now getting more accepted in Nigeria, also Blockstale BYM that operate the only bitcoin ATM in Nigeria said to installed up to 30 bitcoin ATMs in Nigeria over time.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/nigeria-becomes-eighth-african-nation-to-welcome-bitcoin-atms/amp

I will not dispute this because you are right, but in short short memory, can you remember how the world first go against bitcoin to the extent Wikipedia declared it as scam, there was a time many countries did not accept bitcoin. Bitcoin with time has been showing how itself can be so important to the world, and more countries are accepting it now. Bitcoin ATMs installation is increasing and a time will come when countries all over the world will accept bitcoin.

Theres nothing to be surprise in the result because 95% of all crypto related busines and exchange site in Africa dwell their business in South Africa since SA have better infrastructure but Nigeria seems to be the number one Africa country to welcome every new technology or development which is the reason why they have the highest tradinf volume.

I dont have clear memory about Wikipedia tagging Bitcoin as scam, but sure I heard it before when some crypto involved people in my place introduced their own product of cryptocurrency called "One Coin" (I'm not sure about the name but it sound something like that since that's way back in 2012), and that's when people in my place was introduced first about Bitcoin. I wasn't in crypto by that time.

I myself haven't seen a Bitcoin ATM yet, but I'm happy to see places and countries installed more ATMs as it will be a great factor for it's adoption and popularity.
In my country we have like a handful of Bitcoin ATMs but its all located a thousand miles away from where I live lol.
Lastly, I am looking forward to what you have said in your last statement  ;D

Of course, the volume thing is correct and that's why the almighty Binance exchange has a Naira trading pair for Nigeria. Nigerians dominate Binance with patronage and that explains it.


It was One Coin, a project that never had anything to do with crypto at the time but wanted the crypto feel to deceive many people. I was nearly caught in that web of deceit. It never got listed on any exchange. We also had Swisscoin and TBC (The Billion Coin) in 2017. Swisscoin managed to get on Coin exchange and dumped there but TBC never got listed on any exchange till this moment even though hodlers of this coin still believe it will.

Thanks OP for creating this detail thread on bitcoin ATM in Africa. Quite sad though we have only one in Nigeria, thought I saw a trend something back about a new one been installed in Abuja but just did some research and found out it was just a rumor.  With Nigeria having the highest trading volume in Africa and completing with most 1st world countries I thought we would have had more than one especially in the big cities like Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, any day we get one installed in my city, I'll be among the very first patronizers and if I wait for a long time without any positive news of one been installed then I might probably take a trip down to Lagos just to patronize the Bitcoin ATM they have over there.

Love it when my country (Nigeria) Isn't been left out of the fun of cryptocurrency, more wins to the county as young and brilliant cryptopreneur are emerging steadily.

I love this list! Thank you =) Just to say though that the site (radar) doesn't seem to be very good at updating. The one in the airport in the capital I was at took months to delist, and the ones near me haven't been available for weeks.

I was actually at one of the listed locations (Kenya) in late 2015. I do NOT recall the BATM there, so that must be new!

I think Bitcoin ATM could be another form of business in Nigeria very soon just as we have so many local exchangers now. Hopefully, there will be no serious regulations concerning crypto and other ecurrencies in Nigeria. Just like Patricia is making crypto spending online seamless by offering crypto debit card, many local exchangers might venture into Bitcoin ATM business by installing in their shops and other outlets

This is surely a sector of the world economy waiting to fly when Africa and largely, Nigeria gets more adoption into the crypto space. This is because Nigerians are huge investors and more installations of bitcoin ATM will surely create more interest..


This is surely a dump coin. I woke up some day to see my block folio filled in dollars lol but all were hype. I was always hopeful but now I can rest because it has finally gone off the only exchange it was listed  ::)

Here's the catch, sure the numbers are very high when it comes to bitcoin trading and cryptocurrency in general in Nigeria but how many of this enthusiast actually use bitcoin for their day to day expenses that need for an ATM should be deem necessary? The fiat debit cards are even finding it very difficult to get the citizens of their patronage that's why the banks are forcing the use of the cards on their customers. This days you get a debit card even before you complete the opening of your bank account which is just irritating as we the customers should be the ones wanting the cards not the banks imposing it on us. And the worst part is the outrageous fees they charge for maintenance etc.

Nigerians in the space are mostly traders and investors so  you asking them to spend their holdings wouldn't be an easy task especially when they could get a better deal making used of their worthless Naira instead of their coins. We're still far behind when it comes to spending bitcoin but we'll get there someday.

Ps: I might even install an ATM powered by my exchange (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5200468.0) when It becomes a household name in the country. It's a dream which seems impossible for now but I'm not giving up anything soon.

Ok, I merited OP's post because it adds value to my life.. I travel a lot for my work in Africa and I have only found 1 Bitcoin ATM in South Africa, when I stayed for one day in Johannesburg (Sandton)

This will give me more options when I go into Africa, but they have almost zero merchants that accepts Crypto currencies... so I will only use it to buy things online and pay in Crypto or when I run out of gambling money. (not much to do when you sit in a Hotel at night)  :P

Thank you OP, enjoy your merit point.  8) 8)

Trading is for making money.
ATMs are for losing a good chuck for it in the name of privacy.
How many people do you think to give a damn about ti after they've done KYC with 200 companies a year for bounties and stuff like that?
I have more ATMs near me than entire Africa, do you think everyone around here issuing them? No, the only ones that use them are the ones trying to keep as much information out of the reach of banks as possible. Financially it makes no sense, driving to it, paying 5-10% in fees, then dealing with cash, it's far more tiresome than simply doing cheap and fast SEPA transfer. And lately, the fees have begun to spike, even shitcoin.club who had reasonable ones and are always loaded with money are asking right now for 8.2 when selling, common!!!!!!


One thing, I don't know how accurate coin radar is but google needs to clean its act for Streetview when it comes to Africa!!!!
I was curious about the Uganda Atm as it's listed at a post office, so it looked a bit more, how to say legal and official, but when I searched for the address, oh god, it sent me here (https://goo.gl/maps/cUVtQmtFNkNRzHBP9) which seems like a correction facility on the amount of barbed wire.

It's a wonderful that in African we have a quantum's of bitcoin ATM machines, most especially in south Africa were we had numbers of machines.
That is to show that btc transactions is going to be over propagate fully in Africa and their  will no longer be existence of scam of btc in Africa due to the machines.
From my perspective bitcoin ATM will bring reduction of stress in cryptoccurrency transactions.
I really acknowledge the topic sentence of this text and the writer.
Because with these directives i have noticed the locations of bitcoin ATM's in south Africa, Ghana,Nigeria and other africa coutries for easy transaction of btc and others that don't know, at least have noticed basic knowledge of bitcoin ATM by its description.

I applaud you for a tangible research.

Yeah, everyone's taking advantage of fees. Even some sites I know doubling their w/d fees and then you see they just batch it up anyway AND pocket all the fees they charge customers and STILL not even on a good fee in the end.

And yea, Google streetview is unfortunately never going to be good in parts of the world where there ARE no Google cars going around. I spend a lot of my time in South Sudan correcting the roads and locations -- but you also have to blame users as in these locations it's 100% reliant on users verifying and correcting.

P.S. the pic you showed me looks perfectly normal for a government building in East Africa. They have protected compounds like that, normally with a high ground barrier so you can't rush in, and someone at the guardhouse before the gates to enquire before opening. You haven't been to Uganda have you?;)

Well, not to Uganda, but as much as that would explain part of my assumption, I could have just changed the position and zoomed in a bit.
This is so f**** embarrassing  ;D

https://i.imgur.com/4Qd8SYx.png

This is like the Hot Shots (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102059/) parody, I've mistaken a facility for developing skills for a prison..., triple-quadruple facepalms  ;D

But just to make sure I've checked some others locations and most seem like being quite safe, I don't imagine you want to go to an ATM in a bad neighborhood where everybody knows people are going there to picks lots of cash.
The only one that looks a bit suspicious is the one in Ghana, but again pics from 2010, even here in Europe we have a mall and a spa center where 5 years ago it was an orchard.


Yeah right, scams are no longer possible in other countries because of ATMS, lol.
You do know that there are some scams happening right (https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/12/09/us-marshals-bitcoin-atm-con-scammers-imposters-authorities/) now exactly because of ATMs? (alongside with the lack of knowledge and the gullibility of the victim of course)

Wow, I never knew bitcoin Automated Teller Machines have extended widely in these part of the world. I am glad that Africa has not been left behind in this technology and they are picking things up gradually. I would be happy to see a blockchain solution stem from any of the countries though.

Hoping to see more Bitcoin ATMs not only in African regions. There are still more countries who are a developing countries but still they do not engage in the use of cryptocurrency in their places. Nepal is an underdeveloped country that's why they ban the use of cryptocurrency, which is a shame for their government for being a closed-minded authorities. We should not let other people in other countries to struggle in withdrawing their bitcoin, they should spread those bitcoin ATMs in many places so that people will not have a hard time to travel in far and distant places just to access bitcoin atms.

Wow, this is interesting.
I'm more excited to see my country. I believe this is just for a test run. Very soon we should have the machine in more locations as this will even help move Bitcoin faster. But I keep wondering how Bitcoin will retain being a digital currency with this machine. So, please will it still be coming out as cash.wont we also need people to be in charge of those machines. I hope our government will cooperate with us..

That's a good progress with the increasing usage of bitcoin. Africa getting 17 ATM in 9 different countries is just a beginning to the usage of bitcoin. Bitcoin ATMs were found much in America, may be this will grow slowly in Africa. In a recent article read about the unlicensed ATM that's been set in different states. As Op mentioned at the last, be careful on using ATMs and don't fall for scams.

I'm having a trouble finding a bitcoin Atm here in our country and I'm not sure if there's one existing here.

Hoping that someone or some businesses will place a license bitcoin ATMS in some malls here so that people who want to use it will not have a hard time to withdraw. Just like the bitcoin adoption in Africa, most of its region have a bitcoin ATM, which is really I envy the most. We are also a developing country but this kind of adoption is not yet in our country.

Bitcoin ATMs are pretty limited and some of the old bitcoin ATMs before closed after the bitcoin ATH. You can try using this map to find your nearest bitcoin ATM [https://coinatmradar.com]

This is what I hope that happen to in our city, It's very rare for me to see and experience using it, I actually used it for one time and I literally travel far from my home just to experience it.

Yes, there are many of the likes of this scam. Even bounty hunters get scam by letting them.pay a certain amount of money for them to process the rewards and give it back to the bounty hunters. If one is really desperate in need of money then pretty sure that one will get scam. Others are doing some old tricks but still very effective in scamming.

Bitcoin was been tag of the scammers activity and hopefully they will get or put to a stop so that bitcoin could be a better place for the users.

Lols, no worries. I had a bit of a culture shock myself when I first came to Europe. You point at a skills development centre that you thought was a prison, well I've seen a prison in Europe that looks like a library. So fair, we all have new things to see in the world haha.

Hot Shots, oh man. But yeah, I'm going to scout out the BATMs near me again some time next month, curious to see what new KYC requirements will be on there;)

Wow, this is a great compilation and hardwork you did to liberate the heart of Africans towards the latest ways of blockchain and cryptocurrency as a whole. Many especial me had had a doubt that ATM machine is of absence in African countries but his post shows alot of forwardness in some African DNA of adopting new blockchain technology.  I'm really expecting many African countries especially the ones not listed to take on a battle to include it in their monetary system as it makes transactions  easier and faster.

Indeed. It's becoming similar to fiat exchange houses mafias, which never sell or buy dollars for the official price we see on the daily news.
But I believe these atms aren't so popular. People nowadays aren't fool to waste so much money in fees just to use a gorgeous modern physical bitcoin money machine. All crypto exchanges have to do now is a good propaganda and explain people the benefits of exchaging through their platforms instead of atms.

Thank you for sharing list Bitcoin ATMs in Africa, that's good list and I'm quite surprised that there are also many Bitcoin ATMs in Africa.
With Bitcoin ATMs spread across various African countries, this will help Bitcoin grow more rapidly in Africa. Unfortunately in my country
there is not a single Bitcoin ATM yet, even though my country has legalized Bitcoin.

so africa is one hotspot for bitcoin with the bitcoin atm around pretty sure that africa has lots if bitcoin user. I miht just thinking what could be the status in our place when it comes to using bitcon. It seems like an atm is nit really needed here due to digital devices that could be done just using like smartphones. Fiat conversion is way comfort too using banks and remittances connected to our digital wallets which had been approved from the governmet to operate.

No, that is not acceptable, it can be more convenient to use bitcoin ATM, the transaction fee is high but you can need cash immediately. Also, bitcoin ATM really helping bitcoin adoption, and it is a good thing. It is good that people like bitcoin ATM. Later, it will even help about bitcoin adoption the more.

Really? Where is it? I am a bit surprised about this, why in a country that Bitcoin is legal already, we cannot find a single Bitcoin ATM there.
Well, even Bitcoin ATM isn't something fundamental thing, but it can indicate a good adoption of Bitcoin in a country. So, once the Bitcoin ATMs already exist there, we can expect that the Bictoin has become something considered good and needed by many people in the country. If it is legal there, it is likely the people use Bitcoin in daily life, whether for payment tools or digital assets only.

Well other government has legally accepted bitcoin but not applied to all of the community for consumption instead it is just for those who really love the technology and will not be able to continue it without the government's approval. In this case the government will just handle exchanges by providing them license to operate and regulate crypto based on their understanding but only limited to the establish crypto. Canada has been doing it after some news that there are quite few exchanges given licence to operate as cryptocurrency exchange.

Even though Bitcoin ATMs have large transaction fees, they are still in high demand by the cryptocurrency community.
I am very happy to know that Africa has become widely available Bitcoin ATMs, hopefully with a continued increase
Bitcoin ATMs in Africa making many countries in Africa legalize Bitcoin to be used as payment tools. If that can happen
on a massive scale will certainly make the price of Bitcoin also higher, and that is good for Bitcoin holders.

Looks good have any country in Africa want to adopt bitcoin and ready with bitcoin ATM, will get many respond from people in Africa to know with bitcoin and try how to invest their money in bitcoin.  Without promoting some one low interested with bitcoin and look not care how to get profit more in cryptocurrency world.