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Kraken Returns with Free Trading

January 13, 2018 | News The Kraken website and trading is now back online, following the recent scheduled downtime necessary to upgrade our infrastructure. All client funds were kept safe and secure during this time. Please take note of some important information, below: Trading All orders have been cancelled prior to trading resuming Trading pairs…

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System Upgrade

January 10, 2018 | News We are performing a system upgrade on Thursday, January 11 at approximately 5:00 UTC (Wednesday January 10 at 9 pm PT). Kraken services will be offline for about 2 hours during the upgrade, possibly longer. Withdrawals in all currencies will be offline for an additional 2-3 hours after other systems…

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System Upgrade on Saturday January 6

January 6, 2018 | News Note: In the process of performing final checks ahead of rollout, we discovered a problem in one of the system components. We have been unable to resolve the issue in the last 24 hours and expect to make another attempt after the issue has been resolved, in the next few days.…

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Update on System Performance and Upgrade

December 24, 2017 | News We have made significant progress in the last week with the system upgrades and have realized moderate improvement in performance.  Unfortunately, we were not able to complete all of the upgrades and the most impactful measures are yet to come.  For the time being, systems should still be considered degraded…

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Degraded Service, Upgrade Next Week

December 15, 2017 | News This blaze is on fire. The recent, unexpected explosion in demand has been overwhelming.  Each of the past few days has produced 50,000 new account registrations and 10,000 new support tickets — an order of magnitude above where we were just last quarter.  Concurrent users, daily trades and volumes are…

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Announcement: Reducing Price Precision (Round 2)

September 2, 2017 | News Effective Wednesday September 6 around 6 am UTC (Tuesday September 5 around 11 pm PT) we will be changing the allowed decimal place precision for placing orders. We had a lot of feedback from clients after the previous change in precision, with most saying they would like to see the…

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Kraken Enables Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Deposits and Withdrawals

August 7, 2017 | News Bitcoin Cash (BCH) deposits and withdrawals are now online – read on for important details! How many confirmations are required for deposits? 20 confirmations required before BCH deposits are credited We may lower the required number of confirmations in the coming weeks if the BCH network grows and more miners…