Popular digital asset trading platform Kraken has officially announced the closure of its San Francisco headquarters. The CEO of the exchange, Jesse Powell, wrote about this on his Twitter account. Among the main reasons that served as such a radical decision is the fear of Kraken management for the lives of its employees.
“We have decided to make an important and very difficult decision. Our crypto exchange headquarters in downtown San Francisco will be permanently and irrevocably closed. Kraken was forced to take these steps after a large number of our employees were raped and assaulted on their way to and from the office,” Powell said in a statement.
This news was immediately at the epicenter of active discussions. One part of Twitter users immediately began to be interested in the details of those same attacks, the other part shared funny stories and memes on the theme of “unsafe San Francisco”.
The business publication Cointelegraph also decided to learn about the details and prerequisites for the decision made by the Kraken exchange. A corresponding request was sent to the platform management immediately after the publication of the tweet, but no response has yet been received.
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The situation in this region of the United States has reached the point of absurdity since, after Kraken’s statement, personal stories of citizens about invincible crime in San Francisco began to appear on the Web almost every minute.
In this context, it is worth noting that due to the feeling of insecurity on the streets of San Francisco, more and more people are starting to download the Snap Crap mobile app. With its help, citizens have the opportunity to solve many domestic and other everyday problems without leaving home.
In conclusion, it is worth adding that another world-famous trading platform, Coinbase, intends to close its headquarters in San Francisco this year. This was announced by the management of the exchange a few months ago, however, systematic attacks on employees were not among the reasons for this decision.