Who Founded Bitstamp?

Nejc Kodrič co-founded Bitstamp with Damijan Merlak in Slovenia in August 2011 and served as CEO until October 2020. He moved the company to the UK in 2013 and to Luxembourg in 2016, where it won the EU's first payment institution license for a crypto exchange. He refused a ransom during a 2014 DDoS attack, led the recovery from the 2015 hack and negotiated the 2018 sale of an 80% stake to NXMH, keeping a minority stake. He then joined Bitstamp's board as a non-executive director. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Damijan Merlak co-founded Bitstamp with Nejc Kodrič in Slovenia in 2011, when the pair set out to build a European bitcoin exchange funded by SEPA bank transfers. He kept a much lower public profile than Kodrič and retained a minority stake after NXMH bought control in 2018. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).