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Kraken had like a two hour podcast coming to much the same conclusion as the most probable explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0OQae4fWo

It seems the problems may have started with a software screw up, leaving the "0x" off the ether address. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6ettq5/statement_...

which lost them I think 67,317 ETH permanently. Ah the wonders of cryptocurrency. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6er78h/warning_do...



I’m a bit sympathetic to their loss.

They were supposed to use 0x notation for a particular hex value, but the software always worked without it.

Then some tiny x.x.1 patch upgrade changed the functionality, now requiring the 0x, without documenting the change.


It's scary that with crypto such things can make it so hard to get your money back. I know there was talk of fixing it with a fork to the Ethereum chain one day. Not sure what happened there.


They did that once. I guess this exchange didn’t have enough pull to change the whole “code is law” principle.




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