Founded in June 2011, BTC China , now BTCC , is the oldest and second largest chinese Bitcoin CT r: 7 mining company. BTCC plays a leading role in every segment of the Bitcoin ecosystem, offering digital currency exchange, mining pool, payment processing, consumer wallets, and blockchain engraving. The diverse products and services BTCC offers allow its customers to engage in all aspects of the digital currency spectrum in one integrated platform.
Headquartered in Shanghai, BTCC serves a global customer base and has become an industry leader for security , risk mitigation, credibility, and technological innovation. BTCC’s mission is to provide the world with the most convenient and trustworthy digital currency services.
BTCC founders Bobby Lee and Charlie Lee are, by all effects, between the writers of Bitcoin’s history. As such, they have extensive knowledge in the field of cryptocurrency .
Bobby and Charlie Lee, brothers were born in the Ivory Coast and grew up in the US to parents from Shanghai and were among the first Chinese people to go to Africa in the 1960s. After growing up in Africa, they went to the US for their studies, and after college, they both found jobs working for major IT companies: Charlie worked for Google and Bobby for Yahoo.
Bobby is co-founder and CEO of BTCC, and serves on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation , the most important non-profit organization that works to promote the adoption of bitcoin globally.
We talked with him about BTCC and the future of Bitcoin.
CT: So much water (money) flowed under the bridge since you funded BTC China in 2011. Back then trust in Bitcoin was incomparably lower than now. How much were you confident on the success of Bitcoin when you opened BTC China?
Bobby Lee: When I started BTCC, Bitcoin was practically unknown in […]
