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Security Advisory: Mobile Phones

Heed this or perish. Let’s begin with the assumption that within 24 hours your usual mobile phone number will be hijacked by social engineers.  They will use your number to gain access to every account you own that utilizes phone-based authentication and account recovery, like your email.  They will then use that access and information…

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On the imminent Ethereum (ETH) hard fork

The Ethereum foundation is planning a hard fork at block 2463000, expected to be reached on Tuesday October 18th 2016 PDT. The fork introduces changes to help protect against the recent DOS attacks on the network. The fork is expected to go very smoothly with the DOS-protected fork quickly becoming the dominant chain while the…

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Update on ETC/ETH funding

July 27, 2016 | News When will ETC funding be available? The ETC funding gateway is expected to come online on Thursday July 28th sometime before 12pm UTC. Edit: ETC funding is now live! If I deposit ETH will Kraken credit my ETC too? If you have not yet split your ETH and ETC into different…

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Kraken Fee Change & Important Updates

We have many important updates to share, and we encourage everyone to read the complete list of updates, including a change to trading fees and price precision. Extension of Free Deposits to April 1 Kraken has seen a more than 2x increase in the number of new accounts (not including the migrated accounts) since announcing…

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Beyond Charting and TA: Trading Strategy and Methodology

Hi Everyone, This is Kevin Zhou, former economist/trader at Buttercoin and currently strategist/trader at Kraken.  There’s a lot of material out there about how to place orders and execute trades but very little on trading strategy and methodology (beyond charting and TA), so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on that topic.  I’ll…