On Thursday, a Lamassu-made machine was launched in the West Village at Flat 128, an upscale boutique that sells jewelry by British designers. Patrons of the shop can now buy Bitcoin using the store's cash in-only machine, and also pay for purchases using the digital currency, according to a report by MarketWatch.

The report said that the addition of cash-out functionality is planned for a later date — a delay that could be related to the current uproar over unusually stringent Bitcoin regulations proposed by the state's superintendent of financial services, Benjamin Lawsky.

Although it's the first Bitcoin machine on Manhattan Island, the Flat 128 unit is not the first in the New York City metro. A Bitcoin ATM was launched earlier this month in the trendy Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. And both of those locations were beat out by decidedly un-trendy Albany, which launched its first machine early in July.

Dallas also joined the ranks of Bitcoin ATM-hosting cities, with the launch today of a cash in-only machine at a Buzzbrews Kitchen location in the hipster-ish Deep Ellum neighborhood of Old East Dallas, as reported by the Dallas Observer.

Dallas, like New York City, is not the first metro area in the state to welcome a Bitcoin ATM. However, unlike NYC, Dallas was beat out by the most über-trendy of cities — Austin. And even more unlike the state of New York, "Texas has the United States' friendliest Bitcoin regulations," the Observer report said.