Coinme and Coinstar Plan Expansion of Bitcoin ATMs Across 19 U.S. States

Coinme has announced that its partnership with Coinstar is paying out major dividends, allowing them to continue expanding their goals to make bitcoin kiosks a commonplace sight in the United States.

The partnership between the two companies began in early 2019, combining Coinme’s bitcoin ATM experience with Coinstar’s nationwide fleet of 20,000 coin-to-cash kiosks.

In a press update on April 24, 2019, Coinme stated that it has experienced “strong national momentum and growth of its mainstream digital currency business, led by a massive increase in the number of kiosks where it offers the ability to buy bitcoin.” Due to the Coinstar partnership, Coinme’s number of bitcoin ATMs has shot up from 70 to more than 2,100 bitcoin-compatible kiosks.

The initial tests of these improved kiosks were carried out in Coinstar terminals set outside small grocery stores across three U.S. states: Washington, California and Texas. Now the plan is to incorporate Coinstar machines at other grocery store chains in a total of 19 states. These new locations include not only metropolitan areas with no previously established Coinme presence, but also a number of urban centers where Coinme has ATMs already operating.

Coinstar CEO Jim Gaherity said that his company is “incredibly pleased with this collaboration with Coinme and [is] eager to continue expanding to new markets in the coming months.”

The success of its expanded ATM operations has resulted in the first quarter of 2019 being “one of the most successful in Coinme’s five-year history, with 38 percent growth in user acquisition, 92 percent gains in transactions volume and 109 percent growth in transactions processed compared to Q1 2018,” according to the company statement.