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Kraken Acquires Glidera

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…

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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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Kraken Inks Multi-Million Dollar Deal With SBI Investment To Lead Series B

Today global bitcoin exchange Kraken announced a multi-million dollaragreement with SBI Investment, one of Japan’s leading and most respectedventure capital firms, to invest in and lead the Series B round offinancing in Kraken. SBI Investment is the venture capital arm of SBIHoldings, the world’s first Internet-based financial conglomerate. Theterms of the deal were not disclosed.…

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Kraken Passes World’s First Cryptographic Proof of Reserves Audit

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…