I am sharing some of the best cryptocurrencies exchanges that has shown massive volumes in past years . These high performing exchanges are responsible for the whopping $66 billion market capitalisation of the digital crypto currencies.
Consider the current price of BTC in USD = 1900
Exchanges Name -- Total Traded USD as of July 17 2017
- Poloniex - 256514820
- Kraken - 214301380
- Bitfinex - 168462493
- Bittrex - 75049791
- OKCoin - 56284080
- Bitstamp - 44673066
- BTC-e - 28546550
- hitbtc - 26709269
- CEX.IO - 24633671
- BTC38 - 21856327
- Quoine - 19631047
- YoBit - 5797432
- Vaultoro - 5648567
- Bter - 5607299
- QuadrigaCX - 4764953
- Livecoin - 3606428
Out of 16 exchanges some exchanges are providing more than 900 pair of crypto currencies.
Some of the important information about top 3 exchanges of current time .
Poloniex Exchange
- Founded : 2014
- Location : Wilmington, DE, USA
- Official Email : Marketing@Poloniex.com
- Website www.poloniex.com
- Founder/CEO Tristan D'Agosta https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristandagosta
Kraken Exchange
- Founded : 2011
- Location : San Francisco, California, United States
- Website www.kraken.com
- CEO Jesse Powell https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessepowell
Bitfinex Exchange
- Founded : 2012
- Location : Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
- Website www.bitfinex.com
- Founder Raphael Nicolle https://uk.linkedin.com/in/raphaelnicolle/en
- Contact Email support@bitfinex.com
Important Note : In 2016, Bitfinex was the subject of the Bitfinex hack. In it, $72 million in bitcoin was stolen from the company's customer's accounts.Immediately thereafter, bitcoin's trading price plunged by 20%. After learning of the breach, Bitfinex halted all bitcoin withdrawals and trading. In that hack, the second-biggest breach of a Bitcoin exchange platform, 119,756 units of bitcoin, which was about $72 million at the time, were stolen. Bitfinex first announced the security breach on August 2, 2016. The bitcoin was taken from users' segregated wallets and Bitfinex said it was tracking down the hack.Significant hacker funds transactions were signed off by Bitfinex's security provider, without full security.
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