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On August 1 2017 at 12:20 pm UTC a small community of Bitcoin users is planning a hard fork from Bitcoin to an alternative protocol called “Bitcoin Cash” (BCH). Bitcoin Cash is expected to be a minority chain, with the vast majority of the Bitcoin community remaining on the chain that activates Segregated Witness and,…
May 5, 2017 | News We’re proud to announce that on May 5, 2017, Kraken set a new record for trading volume across all digital assets in a 24hr period: $178,521,474. This figure trumps our previous record set on March 17, 2017, by 25%. Keep on Kraken 🙂
May 3, 2017 | News The price of bitcoin and the total market cap for digital assets are each shattering previous records. At the time of writing, bitcoin is over $1500, while the digital assets total market cap is nearing the $40,000,000,000 mark. These numbers represent new all-time highs for an industry that is becoming…
March 17, 2017 | News Today Kraken set a new record for total daily volume traded across all currencies on the exchange. With about 135,000 bitcoin traded in 24 hours the new record beat the previous record, set in June 2016, by 35%. Kraken continues to grow at an amazing rate!
March 15, 2017 | News Last week Kraken tweeted a poll before the Bitcoin ETF decision asking followers what they thought the outcome would be. We received over 400 votes, with 58% incorrectly predicting approval and 42% correctly predicting that the ETF would not be approved. Did it matter? Perhaps we should have asked whether…
Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the popular charting and trading platform Cryptowatch (https://cryptowat.ch) – used by thousands of traders to chart over 150 markets in real-time and trade up to 22 digital assets through a highly user-friendly interface. Cryptowatch has seen rapid growth in the past two years, increasing its active user-base…
Kraken is pleased to launch a new and greatly improved trading platform for our clients that is found here: https://trade.kraken.com/ The trading platform is adapted from the popular charting and trading site Cryptowatch. Kraken has acquired Cryptowatch – you can read more about the acquisition here: Quick-Start Guide to Trading on the New Platform Accessing…
Best wishes to all our clients and the crypto community for happy holidays and a great new year! Here’s a look back at some of the major Kraken milestones of 2016. It was a year of major growth for Kraken with four landmark acquisition deals and many new exciting digital assets added to the platform.…
We would like to thank The Economist and all thirteen teams that participated in the Kraken investment challenge to optimize a $1 million, 5-year bitcoin-ether portfolio. We enjoyed reviewing the variety of approaches taken across proposals. The videos and papers have already generated organic conversation among viewers that will help encourage beginners to learn more…
Global digital asset exchange Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the award-winning wallet funding service Glidera (https://www.glidera.io). Chicago-based Glidera is the world’s first non-custodial buying and selling service for wallets that has grown quickly since its launch in 2015 to integrate with 10 of the top bitcoin wallets. The terms of the deal…
