Ethereum Close Hard Fork to Affect Ether, Bitcoin-Altcoin Trading on Kraken
Kraken has announced plans to temporarily disable ETH deposits and withdrawals on its platform ahead of a planned hard fork. Kraken is the largest Bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. It’s also trading in Canadian dollars, US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen. The fork is slated tentatively for July 20. Traders in ETH, LTC, XRP, XLM, or XDG have been informed by the exchange that dealings in the currency will be disabled for approximately one hour before the hard fork activates. ETH deposits to be disabled 1 hour before the fork. Kraken notes via email: “As you may know,....
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