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From Detroit to Delhi, Santiago to Split, crypto ATMs are on the rise, sparking a fight over the new market.

Walk into a Prague subway station and chances are you’ll see an ATM. But you don’t need a debit card or even a bank account to use this machine. This is a cryptocurrency ATM. It’s the physical manifestation of a set of virtual currencies that have leapt out of the shadows of the underground to the mainstream of global finance. And it’s over these ATMs that the latest race in the cryptosphere is unfolding.

From Detroit to Delhi, and Santiago to Split, cryptocurrency ATMs are popping up around the world, catering to an interest that has been tempered by a crash in Bitcoin valuations this year. The first such ATM opened in 2013 at Waves coffee shop in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now, just five years later, more than 3,000 cryptocurrency ATMs populate train stations, factories, delis, hookah bars, tattoo shops, pubs and even pet clinics. These ATMs allow users to withdraw cash or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum. And crypto kingpins are now duking it out for control of that exploding market.

The president so far has not mimicked his predecessors for a PR-friendly jaunt.

As another sticky August — the most reliable swamp drainer of all — hits the capital, expect President Trump to decamp for an extended vacation to his golf course resort in New Jersey. But that’s not his only travel plans for the month. Trump is stepping up his stumping for midterm candidates, including trips this week to Florida and Ohio. Aside from political jaunts, Air Force One itineraries have included multilateral global summits and one-on-one chats with the likes of Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin.

And yet, more than 18 months into his presidency, Trump has yet to visit American troops serving in harm’s way.

Latina Samara Mejía Hernández represents a venture capital success story that’s anything but typical.

It’s December 2016, and venture capital investor Samara Mejía Hernández tries her hand at op-ed writing with a blog post on LinkedIn. Titled “Why Your Boss Is Still a White Guy,” she takes the tech industry, and particularly the VC world, to task for its stunning lack of diversity — only 2 percent of venture capital-backed startups have women-only boards, while just 1 percent of VC funding goes to people of color, according to First Round Capital’s 2016 State of Startups report. Combining data-based reasoning with cutting asides like “apparently being born without a Y chromosome makes you a better notetaker. Still waiting on the peer-reviewed study,” the post goes viral within 24 hours.