Kraken Integrates with BitGo

Kraken is proud to announce a new partnership with BitGo, a leading provider of digital asset security. BitGo now integrates its multi-sig vault wallet system and robust security management controls with Kraken. Kraken had previously employed a custom off-chain, multi-party signing system with off-site components –...

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Bitcoin Knowledge Interview with Kevin Zhou

Kraken Strategist/Trader Kevin Zhou is interviewed by Trace Mayer on the Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast. Among the topics discussed are: the interest banks have taken in blockchain technology; the current unusually high price of Bitcoin swaps; how to quantitatively measure the price impact of a spam...

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Beyond Charting and TA: Trading Strategy and Methodology

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...

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Kraken Rated One of the Top Exchanges by BitReview

Kraken is rated one of the top bitcoin exchanges by BitReview. BitReview is a popular site containing a wealth of bitcoin news and information, including extensive reviews of bitcoin-related goods and services.  “Kraken is one of the best products in the market, period. For European...

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Kraken Sets New Volume Record

About 17,400 bitcoins traded on Kraken today, setting a new all-time daily record! The record comes only one day after the record was broken with a daily volume of about 14,500 bitcoins. With our two-year anniversary coming up, it’s great to see this pattern of...

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Farewell, New York

Your deeds will be remembered. Hopefully, Charon accepts bitcoin. Today Kraken discontinues service to New York residents. Regrettably, the abominable BitLicense has awakened.  It is a creature so foul, so cruel that not even Kraken possesses the courage or strength to face its nasty, big,...

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Kraken Launches Ether Trading

Today Kraken launched with ether trading. Ethers are the currency of the Ethereum network, which is a decentralized platform for executing programmable smart contracts.  Out of the gate it was Kraken’s highest volume launch to date, with over 3 million ethers traded in the first...

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Reduced Trade Fees Coming August 1st!

Great news – Kraken® is reducing trade fees and moving to a maker taker model! This change comes by popular demand, since many clients have told us they would like to see a maker taker model with reduced fees overall. We have also simplified the...

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Kraken Sponsors Bitcoin Conference in Ukraine

Despite the country’s fragile political situation and an uncertain economic outlook, Bitcoin has many enthusiastic followers in Ukraine. This is why Kraken was particularly proud to co-sponsor ‘Blockchain Incredible Party’ (BIP 001), a conference held from July 1- 2 in Odessa. The conference’s organisational team...

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Kraken Brings Bitcoin to Canada

Hey Canada! Great news – you can now buy and sell bitcoins with Kraken! Just create an account from anywhere in Canada, fund it in Canadian dollars, and trade for bitcoin with our new XBT/CAD trading pair. The native CAD funding and trading gives you...

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Introducing the Kraken Dark Pool

We are pleased to announce the Kraken dark pool, a new feature that allows clients to discreetly place large bitcoin orders and execute against similar sized orders at potentially better prices.   Kraken is now one of the few exchanges offering a dark pool for...

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Welcome Howard Bernstein as Kraken CCO

Kraken takes a proactive approach to compliance, in order to anticipate the evolving regulation around Bitcoin and to help ensure it is regulated in a way that protects consumers while allowing the game-changing Bitcoin ecosystem to flourish. Today we’re pleased to announce a great new...

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Kraken Launches Margin Trading

Kraken is pleased to announce the launch of margin trading. Margin is an exciting instrument that allows clients to amplify their trading profits and gain in both up and down markets. Kraken is now one of the few exchanges allowing clients to trade bitcoins on...

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Kraken Presents at 2015 EHI Kartenkongress

Interest in Bitcoin continues to grow and Kraken is spreading the word! Today Kraken CEO Jesse Powell explained the value of Bitcoin for retail merchants at the 2015 EHI Kartenkongress (Card Congress). Jesse presented along with PayCash CEO Dr. Jürgen Wolff. As discussed in a...

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New Kraken Site Design

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...

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