Coinbase
The San Francisco-based exchange facilitates various bitcoin transactions and is home to 990,000 consumer wallets and 24,000 merchants. The organisation’s objective is to simplify the complex business of cryptocurrency.
Kraken
The virtual currency exchange, which went live in September 2013, partnered with Fidor Bank late last year, which has since allowed conventional banking activities to be conducted via bitcoin.
Bitstamp
“Bitcoin is working and still has a bright future,” according to the UK-based bitcoin exchange, which has long stood as the European alternative to MtGox and is now one of the largest exchanges worldwide.
BTC China
BTC China boasts the highest trading volumes in China and claims to offer the most liquidity of any bitcoin exchange. The platform was rocked last year due to tighter restrictions, although it’s back to business-as-usual as of this year.
Blockchain.info
The most popular bitcoin wallet and block explorer worldwide, Blockchain.info regularly racks up 200m page views per month. The site’s security policy is to hold as little data as possible to protect against any breaches.
