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November 4, 2015 | News Over 37,600 bitcoins traded on Kraken today, marking a new all time daily high. The new high more than doubles the previous high from August 24th, 2015, when a volume of about 17,400 coins was reached. This is the third time that a new volume record has doubled the previous…
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…
July 13, 2015 | News If you haven’t filed our MtGox claim yet, it’s not too late! The MtGox trustee has announced that the deadline for filing creditor claims online has been extended to 8:00pm, July 28, 2015 PDT (GMT-7). Kraken has also extended the offer of up to $1MM in free trades to creditors filing…
March 5, 2015 | News, Product Kraken will be launching a brand-new site design within the next few days, so we want to give you a brief preview of some important changes. First, you will notice that the new site mentions margin trading. This doesn’t mean that margin trading will be available when the new…
October 28, 2014 | News, Product Today Kraken launched a partnership with PayCash, a Luxembourg-based leader in innovative EU focused payment solutions, to provide both US dollar (USD) and British pound (GBP) funding to its clients. These new funding options coincide with the launch of bitcoin-pound (XBT/GBP) trading. The PayCash partnership allows Kraken to leverage…
The total cost to buy and sell bitcoins at an exchange involves more than you might think. It depends not only on trades fees, but also on deposit and withdrawal fees, conversion fees, and slippage from spread and depth. This can make it difficult to know what your true transaction cost is, especially since the…
August 25, 2014 | News 2014 is considered by some to be the year of multi-sig, and we are happy to announce that Kraken supports payments to multi-signature Bitcoin addresses (addresses beginning with a ‘3’). Multi-sig features are built right into Bitcoin at the protocol level, offering a powerful free layer of additional security to…
The first thing to understand about two-factor authentication is that you need it. For email or financial accounts, where security is of the utmost importance, two-factor authentication is essential because it greatly reduces the chance that the account will be compromised. The second thing to understand about two-factor authentication, however, is that it is a…
April 30, 2014 | News Responding to a large and growing client demand, Bloomberg launches with Bitcoin prices for the over 320,000 users of its industry-leading terminal for multi-asset data, news and analytics. At launch, Kraken holds the honor of being the only exchange providing complete Bitcoin market data to the terminal, including the volume…
April 18, 2014 | News, Security The recently discovered “Heartbleed” OpenSSL vulnerability may have affected many HTTPS sites on the internet, including kraken.com. When exploited, this vulnerability can leak random information that may contain usernames, passwords, and API keys. Most of our servers were patched before the vulnerability was publicly announced, but to ensure that…
