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December 23, 2020 | News We are excited to invite you to the Kraken HQ X-Mas Party in Decentraland with the hottest DJ in the space, 3LAU! Collect limited edition Epic, Legendary & Mythic NFT wearables and dance the night away with your friends. You can either attend as a guest, or create an account…
Kraken is thrilled to announce that Miha Grčar, a pioneer of the cryptocurrency exchange sector, will officially be joining our team as Head of Business Development. For the better part of the last decade, Miha has helped Bitstamp gain recognition as a licensed financial institution in Europe, experience that will prove integral as he helps…
The Financial Crime Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) rules already prohibit financial institutions from opening accounts for homeless, unhoused and refugee populations who don’t have physical mailing addresses. Now, FinCEN has proposed a new rule that would prohibit those who are fortunate enough to have accounts from even sending money to these people, if that money is…
Kraken is excited to announce new investments and forthcoming features designed to bring the benefits of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network to our global exchange. Building on Bitcoin’s blockchain technology, the Lightning Network will help the world’s largest cryptocurrency scale to process millions of transactions per second, a leap forward enabling trades to be completed at a…
Kraken is pleased to announce our support of the Flare network and Spark (FLR) token airdrop for XRP holders. The first thing to understand about this airdrop is that it is unusual because there is a very large gap of time between the snapshot of XRP balances and the launch of the Flare network and…
Bitcoin Cash will hard fork on November 15 2020 around 12:00 pm UTC as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade. This upgrade is controversial and will likely result in two chains after the fork. The likely split is between two protocols known as “Bitcoin Cash Node” and “Bitcoin Cash ABC.” At the present time, over…
October 12, 2020 | News VIP clients are the first to receive Kraken Intelligence reports. If you’d like early access to our latest research, sign up for the latest research or ask your account manager for more details. Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released its Bitcoin Volatility Report for September 2020.…
Sure, Bitcoin has a price, but what makes it valuable? Kraken Intelligence, our team of expert analysts, have given their take in a new report released last week entitled “Bitcoin & Intrinsic Value.” At 20-plus pages, it’s our most detailed breakdown to date of all the ways investors have tried to value this innovative asset. …
September 29, 2020 | News What is the value of Bitcoin? It’s a question that’s been asked since the innovative asset first appeared on message boards, and it’s only persisted as its value and usage has grown. But while one definitive answer to this question remains elusive, that doesn’t mean it’s not worth exploring. In…
As Kraken’s Chief Security Officer, I’ve spent the past two years building one of the most advanced security programs in the cryptocurrency industry. While most of my work involves hardening our security behind the scenes, I also work with our Product and Engineering team on a roadmap for client-facing features. One of our goals is…
