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Matt Wille

Kraken's new 'crypto-first' culture forbids critical thinking

Kraken, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, no longer wants its employees to call each other out when they’re being racist or xenophobic. In fact, Kraken really only wants staff to speak to each other about mainstream crypto adoption. Anything else is a distraction from “The Mission.”

The company this week released an extensive (and exhausting) document entitled “Kraken Culture Explained,” in which Kraken attempts to do exactly that with varied degrees of success. Much of the document pertains to The Mission — “to accelerate the worldwide adoption of cryptocurrency because we believe that this will improve the lives of billions of people and usher in a new era of human flourishing.”

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