# Professor David Yermack is interviewed for a feature story on bitcoin ATMs

1 Faculty News February 7, 2019 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/2019/02/06/world/why-are-bitcoin-atm-popular-deli-high-fees) -- "There's a demographic of people who tend to — even if they don't own this — they know about it. It's a good conversation piece. It's well understood that shops that accept bitcoin are really trying to segment the market and get a more affluent tech savvy crowd just to come in and shop but they really don't want to spend bitcoin, they just want those people to enter the premises.”

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