Bitget launched in 2018, started as a derivatives venue, and found its identity in copy trading: followers allocate money to a lead trader's positions and pay a share of the profit, typically up to 10% or 15%. It now claims well over 100 million registered users across 150-plus countries, lists 700-plus coins, and runs one of the deepest futures markets outside Binance. In late 2022 it moved its registration from Singapore to the Seychelles, and it has since collected registrations in Australia, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, El Salvador and Georgia.
What it does not have is any license to operate in the United States, and its restricted-locations list says so plainly: the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands are all excluded. Registration with a U.S. document fails, IP addresses are geo-blocked, and a VPN violates the terms. Unlike OKX or Gate, Bitget has announced no U.S. entity and no path to one.
Anytime Capital serves the customer Bitget turns away, and everyone else. It is an American company with a storefront on Piedmont Road in Atlanta, an office in One Biscayne Tower in Miami, a phone line that reaches a person, and customers worldwide, with cash and same-day wire on top of card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH and Cash App.