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The site has been down for some time without warning or a time frame. Why do they not give a warning to their users? This is somewhat disturbing. I'm hoping they fix whatever issue was causing the site to give an error during random times preventing use of the exchange.

https://www.kraken.com/

Anyone know anything about it?

https://status.kraken.com/

Maybe he updating their server software to prevent new Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability

it has been almost 24h now. a long maintenance if u ask me.  ::) it is always a little shock, since they do not warn about the upcoming maintenance

Let's give them enough time to solve some issues , better 1x a "long" time down and problems solved than 10 "short" times down and retrying solving problems !
Don't forget the site is on 24/24 , 7/7 , so maintenance has to be done somewhere in time.
And I'll be very happy if "502-error trading" will be reduced with this maintenance.  :D :D
For me it's a very reliable exchange and that's what matters the most afterall.
Have some faith and trust , they deserve it.
However , I prefer a short downtime above a long one to.  ;) ;)

yes, at some point you are right. but Kraken is not a small enterprise and they can allow themselves a test environment, where they can test the changes in the test environment and after SIT and UAT implement it in the production environment.
 :)
but lets wait a little bit longer...they are a trusted exchange. i remember back in time bittrex couldnt verify my account for almsot 2 months and my funds were frozen...

Agree , it's always something ! :-)
We've got some time for research now or we can spend some profits and stimulate the economy.  ;D
Grtz

pity there are almost no available NVIDIA GPUs at EU Market for a reasonable price. makes the spending not that easy :D

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one that's been getting the "502-error trading". Kraken has been my favorite I was becoming disappointed in getting the errors more and more frequently the past few weeks. I can live without them for a day or two. Maybe I'll get some gains while I hold.

I have made a deposit there and they have put the exchange in the maintenance mode.

I wish them luck. They must be getting a ton of s**t from many people already, but hopefully this maintanance will fix their issues permanently. I kinda like Kraken. Don't know why. Centralized exchanges are soon becoming obsolete anyway.

Sorry for people who hold too much money on exchanges. It must be scary times whenever an exchange goes down for maintanance. Everyone is saying this, but I will repeat too: Keep your own private keys.

no big deal, sometimes maintenance is must to sort all issues

Glad I already moved off, I got tired of all the connection issues.  Could not rely on making the trades or withdrawals when I wanted to.

Well, before the upgrade/maintenance the site was almost unusable, countless connection errors and related usual dramas...

Let's hope, things turn out good, after maintenance...but remaining skeptical on that...

As far as I know they have sent out a warning via their official channels. At least thats what I read on the Kraken thread in the forum. But I agree that the communication for things like this has to improve. I was really lucky that I just in time withdrew the money that I needed from Kraken. The next day I tried to access the website I couldnt anymore. I still have fiat sitting in there, so I hope that they will be quick with the site maintainance.

Site currently on maintenance. Message below confirms that...

'***MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT***

Kraken is presently offline for maintenance.

While maintenance is underway, the website and API will not be reachable, and orders will not be able to be placed or canceled.

The Kraken Team'

Am I the only one who is extremely nervous about this?

Personally I am very worried

I dont know why but somehow it reminds me on something happened on 6. Dec.

Nicehash started the same

I'm fairly new to this crypto "scene". has something like this happend before somewhere?
I guess there will be a mass movement away from them, after they get online again,
in connection with a huge performance impact, and maybe next downtime due to overload ...  very scary

For me, they still got my confidence and the benefit of doubt.
However some relaxing confirmation about non-hacking is very welcome.
A very big €-deposit on wednesday makes me nervous to , but panicing never helps, so..
Ether wallets : Kraken_1 , Kraken_2 , Kraken_3 and Kraken_4 (Kraken_REP) aren't empty.
https://etherscan.io/address/0x2910543af39aba0cd09dbb2d50200b3e800a63d2
So , that's a very good thing !
Got no clue about BTC-vault adress or other coins.
If someone knows adresses , we can check it out...
Fingers crossed I would say, hoping they catch/kill the bugs fast.
(maybe inject some round-up in the system , :-)  :-) )

50% of exchangers are under maintenance this week. Do not panic just wait every thing is under control.

Thank you , Kraken.
For being back on air.  :D :D

its not back, still down

It's working fine for me, and my friends also tell me it's working again for them, thank god.. If my funds would have been gone, pffff...

working for me as well

Yep it just starting working for me within the last 20 minutes.

*Update: Withdrawals are disabled.  :(

Hi Everyone.

We're so sorry for the delay in getting back online.

If you are experiencing any bugs, please get help or report them by submitting a request at https://support.kraken.com. (https://support.kraken.com.)

Please read through our latest blog post (https://blog.kraken.com/post/1449/kraken-returns-with-free-trading/) for details on how long it will take for certain features to return to normal. Withdrawals will be initiated after 12 hours and margin liquidations will be paused for at least 48 hours.

Please note that everyone should be extremely careful with market orders and double-check limit order prices in an illiquid market.

Thank you all for your patience. Enjoy the free trading until the end of the month!

Please post on our Bitcointalk thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290799.0) if you need anything else.

This is a fairly popular exchange, I do not think that they can close or cheat, you have to wait and everything will be decided. Of course it's very bad when any connection disappears and I believe that they improve the connection with the site and feedback from users otherwise they will simply lose their reputation

when withdrawals will be working again?

You better believe that this can happen..

withdraws not working?

https://status.kraken.com/

Our highest priority now is getting withdrawals back online. We expect to be able to reopen withdrawals no later than 01:00 AM UTC Monday (5:00 PM PT Sunday).

Kraken is up and running with client's funds safe the entire time.

If anyone has any specific issues at this point, or you'd like to report a bug, we would suggest that you open a ticket here (https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and escalate that ticket using this (https://goo.gl/forms/2VolutBY6HBGJRRA3) form.

If you held bitcoin on your Kraken account at Bitcoin block #472889, you have been credited with your Stellar lumen (XLM) from the last airdrop.

Thank you very much for your patience throughout this process. Please enjoy the free trading (https://blog.kraken.com/post/1449/kraken-returns-with-free-trading/) until the end of the month!

If you need anything else, please drop by our Bitcointalk thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290799.0)!