Bitonic

Bitonic is the longest-running Bitcoin company in the Netherlands, founded on 1 May 2012 in Amersfoort. The platform is a deliberately bitcoin-only spot venue, with no support for altcoins, tokens, or speculative listings, and operates as a brokerage where users buy or sell Bitcoin directly against euro at a transparent quoted price rather than against an order book of other users. Funding flows through Dutch and European retail payment rails, including iDEAL, Wero, and SEPA bank transfers, with a flat 1% maker/taker fee published in the public fee schedule.

In late 2024 Bitonic absorbed BL3P, its sister exchange that previously served customers who wanted live order books and limit orders, and migrated those users to the bitonic.nl platform under the same login. Bitonic itself was registered with De Nederlandsche Bank under the pre-MiCAR Dutch crypto service provider regime and subsequently received a full MiCAR license from the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), positioning it among the Dutch-regulated venues operating under the EU’s harmonised crypto framework. Account holders authenticate through standard email login and complete KYC under Dutch AML rules before they can trade.

Beyond plain buy and sell flows, Bitonic offers a recurring “auto-invest” product for dollar-cost averaging into bitcoin without per-transaction fees on automatic purchases, target orders that execute when a chosen price level is hit, and a referral program that pays 15% of a referee’s trading fees back to the referrer (in bitcoin) with a matching 15% discount for the new user. The company also runs Bitonic Academy and Bitcoin.nl for educational content, and a separate business desk for corporate customers. Because the focus stays exclusively on Bitcoin, the product surface is narrow by design; users who want altcoin trading need to look elsewhere.