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Haha, Kraken is the one I use. They've just disabled their login button with no messaging, which I guess is one way to achieve the same while avoiding a mark on
by mcintyre1994 5y ago
Haha, Kraken is the one I use. They've just disabled their login button with no messaging, which I guess is one way to achieve the same while avoiding a mark on their uptime graph.
If I remove the `disabled` attribute then clicking the button does nothing but I get a CORS error in the console.
- sidewndr46 5y agoI was skeptical of this, but I just confirmed that I can no longer login to Kraken either. I have no holdings there to speak of, so it is a non issue for me.
- jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 5y agoThey're probably doing that to stop BTC from crashing even further. If BTC crashes, altcoins would probably follow (instead of taking BTC's position). Even if they don't follow, just BTC crashing would make exchanges lose the biggest chunk of their income. So shady business, but business as usual.
- mcintyre1994 5y agoI agree, it's just a bit hilarious to imagine a normal stock market exchange trying to get away with things like that.
- ryanlol 5y agoNYSE does the same when there are big drops. If there was a 20% intraday drop in SPY they’d halt trading for the rest of the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb
- Infinitesimus 5y agoCircuit breakers exist to prevent wild swings on the stock market as well.