The company is headed by CEO Nejc Kodrič, a widely known member of the bitcoin community, who co-founded the company in August 2011 with Damijan Merlak in his native Slovenia, but later moved its registration to the UK in April 2013, then to Luxembourg in 2016. Bitstamp outsourced certain operations to the UK due to the lack of adequate financial and legal services in Slovenia. In December 2016 Bitstamp started a public funding campaign on the BnkToTheFuture investment website. In July 2017, Swissquote partnered with Bitstamp to launch bitcoin trading.
