OKCoin Wants to Rule the International Bitcoin Exchange Market
Changpeng Zhao is chief technology officer at OKCoin, a China-based bitcoin and litecoin exchange that is now seeking to extend its services to the international market. OKCoin is one of the largest exchanges in the world by exchange volume, according to data from Bitcoinity, and boasts more than 90 employees. The company raised $10m in Series A funding in March as part of a round led by Ceyuan Ventures, Mandra Capital and VenturesLab. Zhao attended The North American Bitcoin Conference in July, where he introduced his exchange to the international bitcoin audience and announced the launch....
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Today marks a special day: The first day that newcomer international Bitcoin exchange OKCoin.com has had a higher daily Bitcoin volume than all other exchanges. In the last 24 hours, OKCoin.com has transacted nearly 16,000 BTC, compared with Bitstamp's ~14,700 BTC and Bitfinex's ~15,100 BTC. OKCoin.com is the international arm of OKCoin. OKCoin also runs OKCoin.cn, a Chinese Bitcoin exchange that also has high volume CNY/BTC trading but does not charge fees (the Chinese norm). Whether or not OKCoin's lead in 24-hour Bitcoin volume will persist until tomorrow is anybody's guess. However, it....
Beijing-based bitcoin exchange provider OKCoin has announced its latest strategic bid to move beyond Asia's markets and serve the global bitcoin community by announcing the planned launch of its new international exchange website. The move will find the China-based company accepting USD deposits and processing USD withdrawals via OKCoin.com. OKCoin will also host servers for the new offering outside of China and provide English-language customer service. Speaking to CoinDesk, OKCoin CTO Changpeng Zhao said: "The international site will be skewed very heavily to international users in the....
OKCoin International Operations Manager Zane Tackett recently announced that he has resigned from the Bitcoin exchange due to misaligned opinions. "For the past year I've handled the majority of the community outreach for OKCoin and have interacted with this community as the OKCoin representative," he said in an informal post. "Unfortunately, due to a difference of opinions I have decided to resign from OKCoin." Tackett joined OKCoin in April 2014, a time when the Chinese exchange had just received funds around $US10 million and was planning to expand globally. He later became a prominent....
OKCoin.com, the international arm of China's OKCoin, has introduced a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending system it says will increase liquidity on its spot market and provide low-risk interest returns for users willing to loan their coins to traders. It is the first time all OKCoin's users around the world will have the opportunity to access the lending feature. Traders can choose loans at their preferred interest rates, and are offered 2.2x to 3x leverage depending on their 'VIP level'. OKCoin has previously deployed the lending system on its Chinese OKCoin.cn site, and says there has been a....
Changpeng Zhao, Blockchain's former Head of Development, has left the company after a few months to become Chief Technical Officer at China's largest bitcoin exchange, OKCoin. Zhao said that, while many might be surprised at his move, for him it was a simple decision: "OKCoin is already the best bitcoin exchange in China, if not in the world. We plan to make OKCoin truly international. OKCoin has the best technology platform, safest security measures, and above all the best team. We also have highest volume and liquidity, the fastest deposit and withdraw processing, and the best customer....