bitFlyer was founded in Tokyo in January 2014 by former Goldman Sachs trader Yuzo Kano and grew into Japan's largest exchange, registered with the Financial Services Agency under rules written after the Mt. Gox collapse. It expanded with a Luxembourg-licensed European arm and, in 2017, bitFlyer USA, a San Francisco company that won a New York BitLicense at a time when few exchanges could. Today bitFlyer USA holds money transmitter licenses across 49 states and Washington, D.C., with Hawaii the remaining gap at our last check.
The American product is narrower than the Japanese one. U.S. customers get roughly a dozen coins, a simple Buy/Sell screen priced with a spread, and the Lightning order book with maker and taker fees that start at 0.10%. Funding is ACH or wire, both free to deposit. There are no cards, no Apple Pay, no Cash App, no cash, and support is by ticket. It is a compliance-first exchange for a bank-funded trader who wants Bitcoin and Ethereum and does not need to talk to anyone.
Anytime Capital is built for the customer who does, wherever they are. It is a U.S. money services business with a storefront at 2549 Piedmont Road NE in Atlanta, an office in Miami's One Biscayne Tower, a phone line at (470) 748-2530, and every rail from Apple Pay to cash by mail. The Bitcoin is identical. The number of ways to get it, and the number of people you can call about it, are not.