Kraken is a famous American crypto exchange.
It is one of the oldest, as the company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco, only two years after the creation of Bitcoin.
Actually, if we only consider the crypto exchanges still in full operation, it is one of the very few still existing among those founded before the first Bitcoin halving in 2012.
The history of the crypto exchange Kraken
The real crypto exchange, however, was launched only in September 2013, two years after the company was founded and in the midst of a bull market, and at that time it only offered exchanges in Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC). Then over time it greatly expanded its catalog.
By the way, its co-founder Jesse Powell was a consultant for Mt. Gox before founding Kraken, and Mt. Gox was the very first known exchange in the world that allowed the public buying and selling of Bitcoin, already in 2010.
With the closure of Mt. Gox in 2014, other crypto exchanges took its place, including Krak
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