The person in charge of the website Mercardobitcoin is Rodrigo Batista and he has been active in the Bitcoin world since 2013. He has a degree in management and technology from different universities in Brazil. The company's headquarters are located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and it is the first company to offer BTC exchange operations in Brazil. The website started in 2016 (last year) with a bang and 100 thousand registered customers! And that was last year! Today, they have around 400,000 registered merchants on their website