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August 7, 2017 | News Bitcoin Cash (BCH) deposits and withdrawals are now online – read on for important details! How many confirmations are required for deposits? 20 confirmations required before BCH deposits are credited We may lower the required number of confirmations in the coming weeks if the BCH network grows and more miners…
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…
May 3, 2017 | News The price of bitcoin and the total market cap for digital assets are each shattering previous records. At the time of writing, bitcoin is over $1500, while the digital assets total market cap is nearing the $40,000,000,000 mark. These numbers represent new all-time highs for an industry that is becoming…
April 28, 2017 | Product Kraken is pleased to announce that trading for Gnosis (GNO) tokens will launch shortly after GNO tokens are released to ICO auction buyers on Monday May 1, 17:09:49 UTC. Order books will be enabled sometime in the few hours before tokens are released and traders can start placing buy orders…
April 12, 2017 | Product Kraken is pleased to announce support for Dash (DASH). Dash is the fourth most valuable digital asset by market cap and recently experienced a huge surge in price (6x gain) and trading volume (10x gain). Dash has one of the fastest growing peer-to-peer networks and supports both “private” and “instant”…
March 15, 2017 | News Last week Kraken tweeted a poll before the Bitcoin ETF decision asking followers what they thought the outcome would be. We received over 400 votes, with 58% incorrectly predicting approval and 42% correctly predicting that the ETF would not be approved. Did it matter? Perhaps we should have asked whether…
Kraken is pleased to announce the acquisition of the popular charting and trading platform Cryptowatch (https://cryptowat.ch) – used by thousands of traders to chart over 150 markets in real-time and trade up to 22 digital assets through a highly user-friendly interface. Cryptowatch has seen rapid growth in the past two years, increasing its active user-base…
Kraken is pleased to launch a new and greatly improved trading platform for our clients that is found here: https://trade.kraken.com/ The trading platform is adapted from the popular charting and trading site Cryptowatch. Kraken has acquired Cryptowatch – you can read more about the acquisition here: Quick-Start Guide to Trading on the New Platform Accessing…
January 2, 2017 | Product Today Kraken is launching support for trading Monero (XMR). Monero is one of the leading cryptocurrencies that has seen huge 40x market cap growth in 2016 and trades with high volume and liquidity. Monero is built on the core principles of privacy, decentralization, open development, scaleability, and fungibility. You can…
We would like to thank The Economist and all thirteen teams that participated in the Kraken investment challenge to optimize a $1 million, 5-year bitcoin-ether portfolio. We enjoyed reviewing the variety of approaches taken across proposals. The videos and papers have already generated organic conversation among viewers that will help encourage beginners to learn more…
