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,…
Dogecoin is best known for its fun and friendly approach to marketing, and for its highly active community of users. Its creator Billy Marcus hoped to reach a broader demographic than Bitcoin and relied heavily on the DOGE internet meme. By early 2015, almost 100…
Kraken announced today that it raised 5 million dollars in its series A investment round. The round is led by Hummingbird Ventures. Other investors include Trace Mayer and Barry Silbert. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell said that the investment capital will be used to strengthen Kraken’s…
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…
Only five months after launch, Kraken moves into the #1 volume spot for trading between bitcoins and euros. The bitcoin-euro market had cooled slightly after the buying frenzy in late 2013, but as the volume shows, traders’ interest in Kraken continues to grow!
Namecoin is the first fork of Bitcoin and creates a flexible distributed data storage network. The most prominent use case of Namecoin is a decentral record for the top level domain .bit, which is censorship-resistant and independent of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and…
Oct 9th, 2013 – Kraken announced today an exclusive partnership with Fidor Bank. Fidor is Germany’s first Web 2.0 online bank and is regulated by the German Financial Supervisory Agency BaFin. The partnership is the first of it’s kind and represents a new level of security for…
Kraken is pleased to announce their launch with trading between euros, bitcoins, and litecoins. Kraken CEO Jesse Powell said that Kraken is able to service most jurisdictions at launch, but in order to accommodate regulatory requirements, some jurisdictions would have limited services or no services.…
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