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May 30, 2014 | News Last week Kraken was voted the best Bitcoin exchange in a poll conducted on Reddit. Voters were asked to consider the following criteria in making their vote: Security Volume Customer Service Difficulty in withdrawals/deposits Knowledge of the owners Spread Out of 207 replies to the poll, Kraken came out on…
April 30, 2014 | News Responding to a large and growing client demand, Bloomberg launches with Bitcoin prices for the over 320,000 users of its industry-leading terminal for multi-asset data, news and analytics. At launch, Kraken holds the honor of being the only exchange providing complete Bitcoin market data to the terminal, including the volume…
April 23, 2014 | News The Bitcoin trading news website TheBlogChain performed an extensive independent review of the industry’s top exchanges. Kraken scored an “A” rating, and received the highest rankings in the industry for legitimacy, customer service, and particularly for security. In summary, the review stated, “Kraken is an exemplary institution that the rest…
April 18, 2014 | News, Security The recently discovered “Heartbleed” OpenSSL vulnerability may have affected many HTTPS sites on the internet, including kraken.com. When exploited, this vulnerability can leak random information that may contain usernames, passwords, and API keys. Most of our servers were patched before the vulnerability was publicly announced, but to ensure that…
April 15, 2014 | News Dogecoin is best known for its fun and friendly approach to marketing, and for its highly active community of users. Its creator Billy Marcus hoped to reach a broader demographic than Bitcoin and relied heavily on the DOGE internet meme. By early 2015, almost 100 billion coins will have been…
March 26, 2014 | News Kraken announced today that it raised 5 million dollars in its series A investment round. The round is led by Hummingbird Ventures. Other investors include Trace Mayer and Barry Silbert. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell said that the investment capital will be used to strengthen Kraken’s position in the digital currency…
March 24, 2014 | News, Security Kraken announced today that it passed a cryptographically verifiable “proof of reserves” audit. The audit is carried out by Stefan Thomas, who verified that the total amount of bitcoins held by Kraken exceed the amount required to cover the balances held by customers. The process employs a variation of…
February 16, 2014 | News Only five months after launch, Kraken moves into the #1 volume spot for trading between bitcoins and euros. The bitcoin-euro market had cooled slightly after the buying frenzy in late 2013, but as the volume shows, traders’ interest in Kraken continues to grow!
November 28, 2013 | News Namecoin is the first fork of Bitcoin and creates a flexible distributed data storage network. The most prominent use case of Namecoin is a decentral record for the top level domain .bit, which is censorship-resistant and independent of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Read More:
October 9, 2013 | News Oct 9th, 2013 – Kraken announced today an exclusive partnership with Fidor Bank. Fidor is Germany’s first Web 2.0 online bank and is regulated by the German Financial Supervisory Agency BaFin. The partnership is the first of it’s kind and represents a new level of security for Kraken users, and a new…
