In the whole world Germany is celebrated for its technological and organisational power. Everything seems to work perfectly and nothing should be impossible. We build the best cars (well, I drive a FIAT; and please don't think about VW's Dieselgate at the moment) and our logistic for life runs perfectly. And didn't our chancellor Angela Merkel say one year ago "Wir schaffen das" (We can make it)?
But WHY we have no Bitcoin ATM's?? The coinatmradar map for Germany is nothing but a white shitsheet of paper. https://coinatmradar.com/
The reason for this is - perhaps - we are too perfect. Our secretary of finance, Mr. Wolfgang Schäuble (well known as "Gollum") has the Bafin (https://www.bafin.de/EN/Homepage/homepage_node.html) unter his control. The Bafin builds the hurdles for every activity in the financial sector, and so for Bitcoin ATM's too. For these devices, the Bafin says, you need a banking license. That means you need about 700,000 EUR of cash!
(I don't have unless you wote me higher)
I believe, Gollum doesn't like bitcoins. Of course he doesn't like libertarians. But he loves tax payers and his role by ruling Germany via money. He loves the ECB, the BIZ, the ESM (of which he is a governor).
But I don't love Gollum. So if I want to buy bitcoins at an ATM, I have to drive (with my bike or with my 12-year old FIAT) to Kufstein, Austria. There is a bitcoin ATM: https://coinatmradar.com/city/418/bitcoin-atm-kufstein/
Thanks for reading and voting
P.S. For reasons of my own security I didn't show pictures of Gollum. But you can google some.