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Way to Sign up for a Kraken exchange account

You can easily sign up on the Kråken website or mobile app by visiting the sign-up page. Provide the required details such as name, email, password, and country of residence to complete the sign-up process. Now, approach the steps that are given below to sign up for a new Kråken cryptocurrency exchange account:

I recently set up an account on the Kraken crypto currency exchange. I wanted to offer some advice based on my recent experience in creating that account.

Kraken encourages the use of 2FA, (Two Factor Authentication). Kraken also encourages their members to use Google Authenticator or some other 2FA app to secure their members accounts.

I had a very large problem when I tried to setup 2FA on Kraken using Google Authenticator.

The problem was that Kraken has two different 2FA setups that it leads you through when securing your account. The first 2FA setup is for the sign in/login setup. The second setup is for the 2FA funding sign in/login.

On my Google Authenticator it remembers the last Kraken 2FA setup, that being the funding sign in/login. Trying to use that 2FA account for signing in to Kraken will result in being unable to sign in. I did not discover this until I installed a different 2FA app called Authy. Authy clearly shows two different 2FA setups for Kraken, one for sign in, and one for funding. This makes is easy to choose the correct one to sign in.

Google Authenticator may be able to handle this situation but it was not obvious or intuitive like Authy was.

I hope this information helps someone else trying to access Kraken and use it securely.

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