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.…
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…
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