Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kraken (digital currency exchange)


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The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Kraken (digital currency exchange)

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Fails to meet general notability guidelines WP:GNG or corporate notability WP:CORP. Agyle (talk) 07:34, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Fails GNG. The Wall Street Journal cite in the footnotes does not appear to relate to this recently created pseudocurrency. Carrite (talk) 01:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, WSJ discussed Payward (I think – I viewed too many WSJ articles this month to check), which is the company that runs the Kraken service; Kraken is a digital currency exchange, not a currency (or "pseudocurrency") itself. Agyle (talk) 03:19, 24 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Neither Kraken nor the company Payward, which created Kraken, appear to have significant coverage from independent reliable sources. --MelanieN (talk) 15:36, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep A Google search turned up some independent, reliable sources. For example CoinDesk seems to focus on cryptocurrencies and covers Kraken/Payward in several articles (I skimmed 5 and the CoinDesk search page listed 27). I also found a number of articles articles on forexmagnates.com, paymentssource.com and kommersant.ru. These aren't the WSJ but I think Kraken clears the bar for significant coverage from independent, reliable sources. Kraken also seems notable because it was responsible for finding a security flaw in Namecoin BrotherE (talk) 21:08, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
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