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This is a list of for-profit companies with notable commercial activities related to bitcoin. Common services are wallet providers, bitcoin exchanges, payment service providers[1] and venture capital. Other services include mining pools, cloud mining, peer-to-peer lending, exchange-traded funds, over-the-counter trading, gambling, micropayments, affiliates and prediction markets.

A sign advertising bitcoin payments in a cafe in The Netherlands in April 2013
A Bitcoin ATM in the Czech Republic in September 2014
A FPGA based bitcoin mining board from 2013
A Bitcoin Point of Sale Terminal showing transaction has been paid 2016


Company Founded Headquarters Service Notes
37coins 2013 USA - Sunnyvale, California wallet provider defunct, 2015
Airbitz 2014 USA - San Diego, California wallet provider
ANX 2013 China - Hong Kong bitcoin exchange
BIPS 2011 Denmark - Copenhagen payment service provider defunct, 2014. Acquired by Coinify
BitcoinAverage 2012 UK - London API provider supplying bitcoin price data
Bitcoin Suisse AG 2013 Switzerland - Zug Broker, Asset Management, Trading, Financial Services, Payment Gateway Services, Mining[2][3]
BitGo 2013 USA - San Francisco, California multisignature security platform for bitcoin
BitInstant 2011 USA - New York, New York bitcoin exchange defunct, 2014
BitPay 2011 USA - Atlanta, Georgia payment service provider
BitBay 2014 Poland - Katowice bitcoin exchange
BitPesa 2013 Kenya - Nairobi bitcoin exchange
Bitreserve 2013 USA - Charleston, South Carolina wallet provider
Bitstamp 2011 LU - Luxembourg bitcoin exchange
Bitwage 2014 US - San Francisco, California bitcoin payroll & international payroll[4]
BitX 2013 South Africa - Cape Town bitcoin exchange
Blockchain.info 2011 Luxembourg wallet provider
Blockstream 2014 USA - San Francisco, California software
Blockstream 2014 USA - San Francisco, California software
BSave.io 2015 UK - London Bitcoin financial services platform
BTC-e 2011 Russia bitcoin exchange
BTCS 2013 USA - Arlington, Virginia mining, wallet provider
Btc.sx 2013 UK - London bitcoin exchange
BTCJam 2013 USA - San Francisco, California peer-to-peer lending
Buttercoin 2013 USA - Palo Alto, California bitcoin exchange defunct, 2015
CEX.IO 2013 UK - London bitcoin exchange
ChangeTip 2013 USA - San Francisco, California micropayments[5] acquired by Airbnb [6]
Circle 2013 USA - Boston, Massachusetts wallet provider
CloudHashing 2013 UK - London cloud mining
Coinbase 2012 USA - San Francisco, California wallet provider, bitcoin exchange
Coincheck 2014 Japan - Tokyo Bitcoin/Ether exchange, Wallet provider, Payment service provider, Donation-based bitcoin crowdfunding
coin co 2014 USA - New York, New York payment service provider
CoinDesk 2013 UK - London news
CoinTelegraph 2013 UK - London news
Coinfloor 2013 UK - London bitcoin exchange
Coinify 2014 Denmark - Copenhagen payment service provider, bitcoin exchange[7][8][9]
Coins.ph 2014 Philippines - Metro Manila wallet provider
Coinsecure 2014 India - Delhi bitcoin exchange
Dicewallet.com 2016 Singapore bitcoin wallet
Digital Asset Holdings 2014 USA - New York, New York blockchain financial services
Gatecoin 2013 China - Hong Kong bitcoin exchange
General Bytes 2013 Prague - Czech Republic Bitcoin ATM and Point of Sale (POS) manufacturer.
Genesis Mining 2013 China - Hong Kong cloud mining contracts.[10][11][12][13]
Ghash.io 2013 UK - London mining pool
Huobi 2013 China - Beijing bitcoin exchange
ItBit 2012 USA - New York, New York bitcoin exchange
Kraken 2011 USA - San Francisco, California bitcoin exchange[14][15][16]
LibertyX 2013 USA - Boston, Massachusetts cash-based bitcoin exchange Formerly known as Liberty Teller
LocalBitcoins 2012 Finland - Helsinki over-the-counter trading
Magnr 2015 UK - London trading, savings and investment platform Formerly known as Btc.sx
Mt. Gox 2010 Japan - Tokyo bitcoin exchange defunct, 2014
OKCoin 2013 China - Beijing bitcoin exchange
Pantera Capital 2003 USA - San Francisco, California venture capital switch to Bitcoin in 2014
R3 2014 US - New York, New York blockchain financial systems
Satoshi Citadel Industries 2014 Philippines - Makati holding company
SatoshiDice 2012 undisclosed gambling
SatoshiLabs 2013 Czech Republic - Prague TREZOR hardware wallet,[17] Slush mining pool,[18][19] Coinmap[20]
SearchTrade 2015 Singapore Search Engine [21][22][23]
Tidbit 2013 USA - Boston, Massachusetts mining
Wirex 2015 London - United Kingdom Bitcoin Debit Card, Remittances, Mobile Banking
Xapo 2014 Switzerland - Zürich wallet provider, bitcoin exchange, vault, debit card
Exmo 2014 UK - London bitcoin exchange, trading

References

  1. ^ also known as bitcoin payment processors]
  2. ^ Harry Büsser, (Jan 01, 2016) "Wie Blockchains die Finanzwelt umkrempeln" BILANZ
  3. ^ Jamey Keaten, (May 11, 2016) "Seen as global first, Swiss town to accept bitcoin payments" Phys.org
  4. ^ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanchester/2015/12/03/starting-bitwage-an-international-payroll-company-that-uses-bitcoin/
  5. ^ "Top 10 Ways People Spend Bitcoins Today". CoinTelegraph. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
  6. ^ "Airbnb Acqui-Hires ChangeTip Staff, But Code Still for Sale - CoinDesk". CoinDesk. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  7. ^ "Coinify Raises Millions to Build Europe's Complete Bitcoin Solution". CoinDesk.
  8. ^ "Coinify Acquires Coinzone in a Deal That Accelerates the Consolidation of European Bitcoin Services". Bitcoin Magazine.
  9. ^ "Coinify Expands to 34 European Countries". Bitcoin Magazine.
  10. ^ "Genesis Mining Leaves New York Following BitLicense Deadline". CoinDesk. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  11. ^ Rob Price. "Look inside the surreal world of an Icelandic bitcoin mine, where they literally make digital money". Business Insider Australia. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  12. ^ "Genesis Mining - Examining the largest Scrypt Mining Provider". CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  13. ^ "The magic of mining". The Economist. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  14. ^ "Kraken Opens Bitcoin Exchange in Canada". CoinDesk.
  15. ^ "Bitcoin Exchange Kraken Launches New Dark Pool". CoinDesk.
  16. ^ "Kraken Joins Exchanges Refusing to Apply for a BitLicense, Suspends Service in New York". Bitcoin Magazine.
  17. ^ "Bitcoin 'Vault' Trezor Lives Up to its Name". CoinDesk.
  18. ^ "Supporters of a Proposal to Upgrade Bitcoin's Capacity Say Their Computers Are Being Attacked". MIT Technology Review.
  19. ^ "The Top Bitcoin Mining Pools That Really Control the Cryptocurrency". CoinSpeaker.
  20. ^ "Coinmap's Heat Map Shows Places That Accepts Bitcoin". NEWSBTC.
  21. ^ Elliot Maras (29 September 2015). "SearchTrade Uses Bitcoin to Reward People using the Search Platform". Cryptocoinnews.
  22. ^ Deepak Bharadwaz (15 September 2015). "Bitcoin 2.0 Start-Up With Plans To Disrupt Google's Search Business Raises Over $40K In A Week". Benzinga.
  23. ^ Raunaq Vaisoha (1 September 2015). "Search Your Way to Millions? Using Bitcoin to Reinvent the Search Engine". Cointelegraph.