Kraken, Gunbot Celebrate Futures Trading Integration with $10,000 Competition

Kraken Futures is excited to announce a new integration with Gunbot, one of the oldest and most trusted algorithmic trading platforms in the cryptocurrency industry.  Targeted at both professional and amateur traders, software applications such as Gunbot democratize access to precise and sophisticated trading strategies....

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Kraken Releases ‘Into the Ether’ a Distilled Deep Dive on Ethereum

With crypto prices heading up and to the right to start 2020, new and returning traders seeking to allocate capital in the market may benefit from revisiting the basics of major cryptocurrencies. With this in mind, Kraken Intelligence, our in-house research team, has released a...

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Kraken Identifies Critical Flaw in Trezor Hardware Wallets

Kraken Security Labs has devised a way to extract seeds from both cryptocurrency hardware wallets offered from industry leader Trezor, the Trezor One and Trezor Model T.  The attack requires just 15 minutes of physical access to the device. This is the first time that...

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Meet Kraken’s New Managing Director for Australia – Jonathon Miller

On January 14th, Kraken acquired Australia’s longest-running crypto service provider Bit Trade. Bit Trade offers a multi-cryptocurrency spot exchange as well as an over-the-counter (OTC) service that provides deep liquidity to professional institutions and traders. With this acquisition, Kraken will focus on being the premier...

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The Markets Series – Part 2: Explaining Crypto Trading

Explaining Crypto Trading: Welcome to the Jungle Excitement, fear, greed, chaos, that rush of adrenaline…markets bring out our animal spirits, and they’re often intimidating. In the second installment of The Markets Series, we tackle the makings of a trade and conceptualize execution to empower you...

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Beware of the Crypto Confidence Man

Here’s a common scenario. You read that the price of Bitcoin went up 10% last night and see commentary suggesting that we are just now at the start of another bull run. Not wanting to miss the boat like you did back in 2017, you...

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Kraken Hires Veteran Cryptocurrency Journalist Pete Rizzo

Kraken is excited to announce Pete Rizzo has become the latest bitcoin and cryptocurrency industry veteran to join our growing global team. Pete is best known for his foundational work as Editor-in-Chief at leading industry news-source CoinDesk. While there, he oversaw all content production for...

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Bitcoin Volatility Report for December 2019

Kraken Intelligence, our team of in-house research experts, has released the Bitcoin Volatility Report for December, 2019. Key Takeaways While bitcoin trading volumes and price fell -18.8% and -5.2% MoM, respectively, bitcoin’s annualized volatility was virtually flat MoM at 50.6%, the lowest level since last...

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