BTCC, one of the longest-running Bitcoin exchanges in China, celebrates its fifth anniversary. CoinTelegraph spoke with the company’s CEO Bobby Lee about their current projects and his vision of the company’s future. Leader in China Bitcoin Ecosystem
BTCC was originally founded in China in 2011. In a period of five years it has succeeded in occupying a leading role in every segment of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Let’s take a quick look at how the steel was tempered.
In 2013, two years after being established, the company raised $5 million in Series A funding from Lightspeed China Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners , which made BTCC the first among Bitcoin Exchanges to acquire venture capital investment. In April 2014 BTCC introduced the first Bitcoin ATMs in China and a few months later it launched its own Bitcoin mining pool. In April 2016 BTCC announced that the mining pool was to be made available internationally.
Such a rapid expansion has allowed BTCC to become a Bitcoin company with the widest range of services to offer. The diversity of services and products provided by BTCC allows its customers from more than 100 countries to engage in all aspects of the digital currency spectrum in one integrated platform.
Bobby Lee said to CoinTelegraph: “We are proud to have come such a long way. But looking at it today, it seems such a short distance in the larger scale of things. We are also proud to have extended the property from offering exchange services to payment processing, wallet services, mining pool, and Blockchain engraving. We are the first Bitcoin exchange in China and will continue to expand globally, improving our services.” Launch of Physical Bitcoins To celebrate its fifth anniversary BTCC introduced a set of physical Bitcoins struck in pure titanium. The reverse side of each Five […]
