Greetings all,

I am an international, alternative news journalist.  I have been following Bitcoin since 2013, and even recommended to my listeners to get into it.

I have now been able to raise some funds to buy in myself - so I am very new to the buying/selling/trading part, BUT I now have another challenge.  I have lost some of my BTC.

A friend was trying to help me, and he has been working with this for several months longer than I have.  He made a withdrawal from his IR account in Australia and we THOUGHT it was going into my Kraken account.  Somehow however, it appears that the transaction has ended up in Poloniex.  I had been thinking about setting up an account in Poloniex, but I wanted to wait until I had learned a little more.

Neither of us have any idea what has happened to it.

I now have a Poloniex account, but the Poloniex people, Kraken people and others do not seem to want to help.  I am trying to build a network of people who may be available to help me better communicate this new way of doing business, but until I am able to resolve and understand what has happened here, I am not sure how I can report on the positive benefits of Bitcoin if people are able to lose their deposits the way I have. 

If I as a beginner and as a journalist reporting on this can lose something...then others can also.  I want to help them avoid whatever mistake I may have made.

These are the details I have, and I hope that it may be enough for someone to help restore my faith in this.

XBT:  0.95500000
TxID:  50d44110378a552b172f2443dc92d00cfe1fd5e52f36a0d6ae2832b69757714b

Sent to:   1NxR3TLr1AXYYodX7EC2PVYqWL1XuQcC8m

If we can find it, perhaps I can also retrieve it?

Is there someone who may be available, and kindly willing to assist in this resolution and understanding?

With gratitude,
Geoffrey
Cosmic Vision News