After nearly two years of intensive development by a highly skilled engineering team, the Kraken website enters open beta testing today. Users are able to create accounts, get funded with play money, and try out the new system. The open beta creates a lot of…

In June 2011, Jesse Powell hops a last-minute flight to Tokyo to help what was then the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, MtGox, recover from a hacking attack. Jesse is an industry veteran who recognized the importance of Bitcoin early on, having been a…