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Kraken (bitcoin exchange)

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Type
  
Bitcoin exchange

Key people
  
Jesse Powell (CEO)

Website
  
kraken.com

Owner
  
Payward, Inc.

Currency
  
BTC, ETH, ETC

Founded
  
2011

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Location
  
San Francisco, California, United States

Headquarters
  
San Francisco, California, United States

Profiles

Twitter

Kraken is a prominent bitcoin exchange operating in Canada, the EU, Japan, and the US, and "the world's largest bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity".

It currently has oversight of Mt. Gox claims for lost bitcoins.

Acquisitions

Several acquisitions of other bitcoin businesses have allowed Kraken to expand rapidly.

  • 19 January 2016 - the American Coinsetter and the Canadian Cavirtex
  • 27 June 2016 - the Dutch CleverCoin
  • 13 December 2016 - the American Glidera
  • 1 March 2017 - charting and trading platform CryptoWatch

    • References

    Kraken (bitcoin exchange) Wikipedia
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