Thanks again for your flawless timing!

Not even close Okay, you're right about the kids, but after that, we started watching Predestination, which is filled with time travel paradoxes. It made me forget about the real time travel we do here.
Note to self (and spoiler): don't be my own father, mother and killer!

If only, I'm still ill on and off.

I don't think that's possible. Without chainstate, Bitcoin Core can't know which transactions in your mempool can't exist.

69 is fun too

There's no need to send Bitcoin to the old address. Bitcoin can be moved without any of the Forks replaying the transaction.

I would export the private keys, send some Fork dust to the addresses to force replay protection, and use a light wallet whenever possible for offline signing. Don't trust Fork wallets, and make sure you move your Bitcoins before doing anything else.
It is also possible to use the full chain wallets for Forkcoins, but it's usually not necessary.

You may want to read my Bitcoin Fork claiming guide (and service). Note that price information in that topic is outdated, and most Forks are worthless by now.

You're on a roll

I'll take 40 and 80 Here too: I had an account years ago, and haven't used it for a very long time.

I think this applies:

I've been surprised (and demotivated) by the lack of bans for chatbot plagiarism. It's very easy to produce, and time consuming to detect and prove. And because the forum barely bans them, the number of chatbot posts is only going up.

I hadn't looked at is that way yet. I always assumed it falls under the plagiarism rules, and thus should be handled by forum rules. But the lack of action from the forum could indeed be interpreted as a lack of rules against it, and in that case negative feedback might lead to change the same way it was used to tag shitposters before theymos introduced the Merit system.

That means you'll also need to be able to prove the seller gave you a certain payment request. I always considered LN to be mainly useful to pay services, and if you pay a service, it's also not possible to prove which deposit address they gave you (unless you get a signed message). Somehow nobody seems to care about that.

What's the use case here? Is it to be able to prove fraud, for instance when a seller says you didn't pay, while you say you did?

Deleting a hot wallet doesn't make it cold storage.

You're going to have to wipe and overwrite your entire hard drive, ideally more than once. But it's much better to create a proper cold wallet, and move your funds there.

That's probably because you ask Newbie questions

Your current setup is not a cold wallet, and even hardware wallets are not cold storage (unless you never connect them to an online computer).

To create a real cold wallet using Electrum, you'll need something like this:
Then create a new wallet.

Most people would instantly argue against memorizing the seed phrase, but this is a good scenario in which it can be useful.

Spam intensifies:

People Someone still pays 0.007 BTC to turn their precious Bitcoin into dust. I still think it's just one person doing this madness. They used to pay much higher fees for this, so it looks like they backed it down a bit to stop fees from going up much more.

You missed a scenario that comes down to Bitcointalk being as free as possible, and offering free speech:

As shown above, theymos disagrees.

Government wants a share of everything here. I didn't make those laws

It's up to the tax payer to either sell a percentage each year, or find other means to pay the taxes. And the rates have been going up in the past few years. I don't like it but can't help it either.

Nobody said governments wouldn't try to force their way. Bitcoin still works fine.

Journalists are supposed to fact check before publishing. But I guess there aren't many real journalists left.

Any chance you have a firewall, modem or ISP that's blocking connections?

That's normal, especially when you're low on RAM. I counted several TB read/writes in total just to sync Bitcoin Core with 8 GB RAM.

Importing a private key means just that: adding a private key to the wallet. That's it. No coins are moved, nothing gets "assigned" and nothing gets randomized.

I actually did that with 9375 potential private keys. It's quite demanding on system resources.

Since you can post, you're not proxybanned. None of that matters to your account anymore.

What "doesn't work"? I'd say it should be possible to run an old version of Electrum, if needed with your own node running an equally old version. Even if it can't sync all current blocks, you should be able to send your funds to a new Legacy address.

I've seen this so many times.... How can so many people lose access to the single most important thing when holding Bitcoin?

Has this worked before, back in the days when you were using this hardware wallet? Or did you always use Ledger's own software?

Did you find a solution? If so: please post it for others to read in the future.

You could use words instead of a password, to prevent mistakes writing it down. I prefer to use different seeds though, it seems easier.

This brings me to the next problem: the seed phrase is a human readable interpretation of a long random number. It's easy to write down, without a high risk of making mistakes.
Your password doesn't have that luxory. If you make a mistake, you're screwed.

Why? Writing down multiple seeds is a small effort to keep your funds safe.

I wouldn't do this. It's probably possible, but too many things can go wrong. For starters: what device are you going to use to create "child" seeds from your "parent" seed? How are you going to keep that safe? How are you going to verify you can still reproduce the same "child" seeds? How are you going to remember which "child" seeds you used for which (exotic) wallet?

That means you'll enter your seed on multiple devices, which (by definition) increases the risk of exposing your seed.