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Exchange Review

ProBit

Exchange Fees

BTC Withdrawal Fee 0.0005 • Taker Fee 0.20% • Maker Fee 0.20%

Deposit Methods

No Wire Transfer Yes Credit Card
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Cryptos (229)

0x Protocol, Basic Attention Token, Bitcoin Cash, ChainLink Coin, Decred Coin and 224 more

ProBit is an exchange from the Seychelles that launched in November 2018. On the date of last updating this review (2 December 2021) the 24-hour trading volume was USD 259.6 million compared to USD 120.4 million on 18 September 2021, according to Coinmarketcap. 

It currently offers trading in 40+ different cryptos. But, according to information on the ProBit-website, 100+ other cryptos are “ready to be listed”. We’re not entirely sure what “ready to be listed” means, but it’s probably fair to assume that the number of supported cryptos at this trading platform will increase rapidly in the near future.

ProBit also has something they call “trade mining service”, where you can mine any of the following trading pairs: BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, BTC/KRW, ETH/KRW or ETH/BTC. Through this service, users will receive transaction fee rebates in the exchange’s native token PROB. The rebate will range from 50-110%.

ProBit highlights three things as the reasons for picking ProBit’s trading platform as the platform to trade at: it’s professional, it’s global, and it’s secure.

ProBit Three Reasons

We have not been able to find any information that US-investors are prohibited from trading at this trading platform. However, if you are a US-investor, you should still always analyse whether your home state imposes any obstacles for your foreign crypto trading. Sometimes the exchange has opened its doors in spite of your own state prohibiting you from trading.

Different exchanges have different trading views. And there is no “this overview is the best”-view. You should yourself determine which trading view that suits you the best. What the views normally have in common is that they all show the order book or at least part of the order book, a price chart of the chosen crypto and order history. They normally also have buy and sell-boxes. Before you choose an exchange, try to have a look at the trading view so that you can see that it feels right to you. The below is a picture of the trading view at ProBit. It feels very intuitive and helpful to us:

ProBit Trading View

This trading platform doesn’t charge different fees between takers and makers. Instead, the exchange has a so called “flat” fee model. They offer a flat trading fee of 0.20%. The global industry average has for a long time arguably been 0.25%. Today, however, we are seeing more and more exchanges moving to lower trading fees, such as 0.10% and 0.15%. New industry averages are accordingly being established.

For the time being however, ProBit’s trading fees are still in line with industry average.

ProBit also offers trading fee discounts when you have a larger trading volume. Trading fees can become as low as 0.05% if you have a large trading volume, and even lower (0.03%) if you pay your trading fees with the exchange's native token, the PROB-token. The trading fee discounts are set out in the below table:

ProBit Trading Fee Discounts

Withdrawal fees are usually fixed and vary from crypto-to-crypto. If you withdraw BTC, you pay a small amount of BTC for the withdrawal. If you withdraw ETH, you pay ETH. The last time we did an empirical study of the BTC-withdrawal fees in the crypto exchange market, we found that the average BTC-withdrawal fee was approx. 0.0006 BTC per BTC-withdrawal. ProBit charges 0.0005 BTC per BTC-withdrawal, which is slightly below the global industry average.

All in all, the trading fees and withdrawal fees here are in line with the industry averages.

Previously, ProBit only accepted deposits of cryptocurrencies and it did not accept any deposits of fiat currency. New crypto investors were accordingly restricted from trading here.

However, on 7 March 2022, ProBit announced through an email to its users that is now also accepted deposits through credit cards.

Probit Buy Crypto With Credit Card

Exchanges store a massive amounts of valuable personally identifiable info. From names to addresses, to government identification details, taxpayer ID number and a lot more. More importantly though, exchanges handle a lot of cash or crypto deposits. If the security at your exchange makes the exchange vulnerable to attacks, that means that also the cryptos or fiat currency assets you hold at such exchange might be vulnerable to attacks.

ProBit states on its website that they have 95% of all assets in cold storage, that they support FIDO U2F. They also use hardware security keys and a software-based 2FA. Needless to say, ProBit seems to take its security seriously.