New to XLM myself as of today, that difference also confused me, but alas did not yet have a validated Poloniex or Bittrex account... ended up using Kraken (from the US) which despite numerous gateway (cloudflare) errors, managed to get my XLM in the end. Frustrating experience though. Look forward to trying the other exchanges.
Got it in the middle of the pump this AM due to Godex news (without errors would have been beginning of the ramp), but having a cold needed a nap and missed the peak to double my stake, guess I'll be here and keeping a eye on this project for a while. Cheers!
ouch, I'm from France and even from here kraken is pretty darn unuseable...
I can only encourage people to go through the Bittrex validation as it was quite painless for me and so far I have had zero issues there.
I use a long list of exchanges from Binance to Yobit (and many defunct ones), and am finding Kraken unbearable to use. Even without the cloudflare errors the poor layout is just miserable to deal with. They need a complete redesign of their layout.