January 18, 2019 @ 12:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Crypto wallet and trading app provider Shapeshift has disclosed that it received 60 requests for information from law enforcement agencies across the globe last year. The company says it is providing the data on law enforcement inquiries in the interest of transparency and to distinguish… Read More

December 16, 2018 @ 2:56 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, one of the largest and longest-established crypto exchanges in the US, is offering private equity shares of the company to accredited investors for a minimum investment of $100 000. Kraken sent an email soliciting equity contributions this week to “our most valued… Read More

November 21, 2018 @ 2:39 am By Cali Haan  |  

The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has begun supporting the “BSV” coin, a crypto token product of last Thursday’s contentious hard forking of Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash is itself a “fork” or code-splice/copy of Bitcoin created by early Bitcoin champion Roger Ver and allies, who… Read More

September 6, 2018 @ 11:15 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An employee at a Halifax leg of the Kraken crypto exchange that few knew existed has claimed that employees were suddenly laid off yesterday morning in a high-security atmosphere. The thread was started by “throwaway34034324” on reddit: Redditor “MysteriousPlankton” confirmed within hours that Kraken gathered its Halifax employees… Read More

August 23, 2018 @ 9:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

The SEC has rejected the Cboe BZX Exchange’s request for a rule change to allow it to trade long and short Bitcoin Futures ETFs (exchange-traded funds). The Cboe applied in January for the rule change that would allow its GraniteShares Bitcoin ETF “Long Fund” and… Read More

June 10, 2018 @ 6:31 pm By Cali Haan  |  

As part of a probe examining possible manipulation in Bitcoin markets, the regulator responsible for overseeing futures and commodity trading in the US has subpoenaed four American cryptocurrency exchanges to produce volumes of trade data, WSJ reported Friday June 8th. Top cryptocurrencies have since turned red as this… Read More

June 6, 2018 @ 3:16 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Vice President and General Manager of Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced June 4th that the company is expanding physical operations to Japan. “Our new office will lay the foundation for Japan’s crypto investors to access a range of Coinbase’s products,” writes Dan Romero…. Read More

April 19, 2018 @ 9:07 am By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Jesse Powell, has fired back at a letter from the New York Attorney General’s office asking cryptocurrency exchanges to provide detailed information on their business practices within two weeks. The 34-point request for info was sent to… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 3:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has sent a letter to 13 different cryptocurrency exchanges. Described as a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices of platforms used by consumers to trade cryptocurrencies, the AG labeled the move the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative. The… Read More

January 15, 2018 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Kraken, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in operation, scheduled a system upgrade last week for December 11th. The upgrade was to replace its trading engine with a new and improved version. Originally expected to take just 2 hours, Kraken remained down for several days… Read More