kraken: deposit address disappearance mystery solved
In summary, Kraken broke deposit addresses for several cryptocurrencies. On the one hand, I am grateful that they have not made me lose money, because they could have done that. On the other hand, this should never have been a thing in the first place, and they are behaving according to an alarmingly common template of stupid, which is software-developer-driven neophilia and interface breakage. Note the following key terms from the missives: "legacy", "significant time", "manual", and "top developer". You can just see the starry-eyed "developers", always pushing the wonderful shiny new version, why would anyone want to use the smelly old version anyway? Let's call it legacy. It's legacy, that legacy version. Did I mention how brilliant I am? Many people are just not smart enough to always run the latest version. The problem with this is: if the previous, sorry, "legacy" one was shit, the new one will be just as sh...