2 thieves at a Canadian grocery store swiped $4,000 from a Bitcoin (BTC) ATM but forgot to check the second canister, leaving $50,000 behind.

According to a local media written report published on Nov. 20, the robbery took identify around 4 a.one thousand. on Nov. 19 at the "Simply Delicious Food Market" in Vernon, British Columbia.

Police force "confident" they'll catch perpetrators

CCTV footage of Bitcoin ATM robbery at

CCTV footage of Bitcoin ATM robbery at "Only Delicious Food Market" in Vernon. Source: Castanet

With police reportedly on the scene just 15 minutes afterward the store's security systems were triggered, the two men escaped in fourth dimension and remain at big — all the same an interview with the shop possessor indicated that a fair amount of evidence had been captured:

"Our security photographic camera caught at to the lowest degree one of their cars drive away, which was a grayness Nissan Sentra. The police were besides able to grab their license plate as well."

While the local media report gives little context on the small-boondocks grocery shop's decision to install a Bitcoin ATM — Vernon has a population of but over 40,000 — the shaken owner said he now plans to remove the machine.

The adverse touch of the pocket-size-time heist is all the more ironic given the thieves' ain hamfisted success, with local reporters revealing that:

"The thieves made off with $four,000, but left $fifty,000 still in the car in a canister they didn't check."

Bitcoin ATMs installed worldwide at best-high

In fall 2022, Cointelegraph reported on the Indian authorities' controversial arrest of the developers of the country's first Bitcoin ATM.

The story carried particular symbolic clout in light of the two suspects beingness the co-founders of the land's starting time cryptocurrency commutation, Unocoin, historic by the local industry as existence among India's brightest tech pioneers.

The arrests were vehemently opposed among a fog of regulatory uncertainty and the case'due south intersection with the regime's evolving opinion toward the sector at the fourth dimension.

Earlier this week, the number of Bitcoin ATMs installed worldwide reached a new milestone, surpassing six,000.

In a development evidently not directly triggered by the news directly, the Usa Internal Revenue Service has this week revealed it is looking into potential tax issues acquired by cryptocurrency ATMs and kiosks.