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July 12, 2019 | Uncategorized Check out all the important happenings this week in the world of crypto, presented by the experts at Kraken. This digest is prepared for informative purposes only and does not represent an investment recommendation or investment advice. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom for more information. See below…
Kraken is performing a system upgrade on Sunday, July 14 at 21:00 UTC. Please expect services to be offline for 3 – 8 hours. What’s the purpose of this downtime? We’re performing an upgrade that will improve latency and performance, as well as enable us to bring you more exciting features in the near future.…
NOTE: BSV was delisted from Kraken on April 22, 2019 and trading on all BSV pairs ceased on April 29, 2019. The recent Bitcoin Cash hard fork resulted in two (for now) viable chains: Bitcoin Cash (following the Bitcoin Cash ABC protocol and roadmap published by bitcoincash.org) Bitcoin SV (following the Bitcoin Cash SV protocol…
Bitcoin Cash will hard fork on November 15 2018 around 4:40 pm UTC as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade. This upgrade is more controversial than previous ones and may result in multiple viable chains after the fork. Initially Kraken will only support Bitcoin ABC, which follows the Bitcoin Cash upgrade roadmap published by bitcoincash.org.…
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.…
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…
August 26, 2017 | News Effective Wednesday August 30 around 6 am UTC (Tuesday August 29 around 11 pm PT) we will be reducing the allowed decimal place precision for placing orders in all trading pairs. Below is a list of all trading pairs showing the new allowed number of decimal places for each pair. For…
August 21, 2017 | News In order to help mitigate the strain on our platform caused by recent exponential growth, we are delisting some of our illiquid trading pairs and temporarily suspending all advanced order types. These changes will go into effect on Tuesday, August 22 around 6 am UTC (Monday August 21 around 11…
This post is a follow-up to our previous post on the Bitcoin Cash hard fork with a few clarifications and reminders for our clients. When exactly will the fork happen?The exact time cannot be known in advance because it is based on “median time.” Median time is the median of the timestamps of the last…
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…
