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

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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