you are confusing "claims" (or advertisement) with "actions". it is very easy to claim to be better and in the eyes of most people it may look better (check top 10 altcoins!) but to actually be better you'll need some innovation and to go in an entirely different direction than bitcoin. in short when you see there is a ton of similarities between bitcoin and another altcoin, there is a good chance they are worse than bitcoin!
why? because they take the idea that works perfectly well with bitcoin and try to adapt it to their own purpose and it doesn't work that way.

it was perfect design choice, you are only mistaken about the purpose. ethereum was never meant to be "universal machine" it was just their advertising technique. the reality was ethereum was a premined coin with a big ICO to make the creators of it millionaires overnight. the design was chosen in that way to give it that short term advantage and hype to get the biggest pumps.
the developers have to be really stupid to not know seconds apart blocks will lead to a bloat of nearly 3 TB blockchain!

this is not the first time some shitty crypto news site makes up a story like this. in fact this story is one of the old ones and was mostly popular a couple of years ago when Ransomware was starting to make a lot of noise. right now they seem to have run out of nonsense to publish so they have stooped to a new low of repeating the old dusty ones.
if you think about it, the total size of it is not even big enough to put a dent in the market. and don't forget that total didn't happen in one day so you have to compare it with the volume of the entire time that it took to get there.

there is nothing to blame here! this drop has nothing to do with Libra, people love to find excuses when there is a panic sell in the market and assign blame to someone or some incident and then panic sell some more with that excuse. Libra has been the case here. they started assigning the "rise" to Libra a couple of months ago when price was already high and now they are assigning the "drop" to Libra again as if the two have anything in common!

i can not think of anything major that has changed about that topic (i am the starter of it). obviously method 1 is no longer applicable. and method 2 is still the same since the clients and their developers are still not trusted. i've also updated the electroncash link (copy of Electrum for bcash).

of course it is about power! if they bought a payment processor (even if it were the biggest one) like Bitpay they would still be processing "bitcoin" transactions, a currency that they have absolute zero power/control in it. but if they create their own blockchain, they can have 100% control over the blockchain, transactions, funds, who sends what where!,... no to mention the millions of dollars potential profit that could be in it for them by simply creating their own centralized token!

i finally finished voting on everything! it feels like there were many duplicates specially with the pizza guy and  HODL guy which leads me to say if there were an option to categorize the entries based on post or at least give a warning to those who submit the same post that there is a duplicate entry with the same link and list the captions so you could only submit if you had an alternative (better) caption for example.

is "he" bullish/bearish and buys/sells bitcoin or is he just advertising himself as bullish/bearish to get people to invest their money with his company which means he invests with other people's money and only receives his commission no matter what happens to the price?

if you are rushing to post name of the HD wallets, read this first:
what is a deterministic build?
in simple terms it means if "I" build the said wallet from its source code the hash of the produced binary should be the same exact thing as the hash of the released binaries that could be downloaded from the wallet website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds
and in my opinion this is one of the most important features that users of these wallets must start demanding from their developers because majority of users would be running the binaries that were provided to them instead of building from source and a deterministic build improves the security and quality of a project by a lot.

* i know bitcoin core builds are deterministic (don't know since when).
* Wasabi wallet also does this from version 1.1.3

i always "guessed" Electrum is also doing it but i can't find any information about it. anybody know better?
any other wallets?

well maybe it is just me, but i still think as a "documentation" (specially the BIP) it  could have been written in a much clearer way by using a slightly different terminology. for instance it doesn't mention "standardness" anywhere instead uses the term "default policy" which i interpret as meaning "consensus rule" not "standard rule".

you should keep in mind that this is only one of many examples out there where people are either trolling the internet by calling their shitcoin the "real" bitcoin. or they are poor newbies who were fooled into buying a shitcoin instead when they wanted to buy bitcoin! this last case was actually very common last year when bitcoin.com (Roger Ver nest) started calling BCash "bitcoin" and renamed bitcoin to "bitcoin core" and a lot of newbies were buying that shitcoin instead then on forums about why they haven't received it in their wallet!

it seems to me that the mistake you made and the mistake that you still continue to make is thinking of bitcoin as tool to make you more "fiat" as profit and nothing else!

people have been posting some Electrum fork related questions here, so i guess it is fine.

yes
you can find the link on https://litecoin.org/ too.
the repository is also under the name of the person who is a part of litecoin project team.
https://github.com/pooler/electrum-ltc/ and https://github.com/orgs/litecoin-project/people
make sure to verify the signature though.

since Electrum-ltc is a fork (that is a code-wise copy) of Electrum project, and litecoin itself is a copy of bitcoin, the two wallets are nearly identical in all aspects but are developed by different teams.

i still don't believe there is such a thing as "bearish mood" and as i said in that other topic of yours it seems to me more like the same "scared mood" that we had a couple of months ago when price was stuck below $4k range and was't going above it. and similar to that time, with a rise to $8300 no mood in the market is going to change because people are ignoring it just the same way as they ignored the small recent drop.
the only thing that will change this "mood" (whatever it is called) is when price makes a major move and then it will change in a blinking of an eye to a big panic mode where they start a buying frenzy which would then shoot up the price.

in other words you are trying to reduce the number of people you target to the minimum amount possible! because that's what happens when you use a stand alone (different) cryptocurrency. people would have to have first heard of it and then have to have converted their money into that coin to be able to spend it! suffice it to say that they are barely doing it with bitcoin let alone with any other cryptocurrency.

your project seems to be best fitted for a simple donation project where you put up a wallet address and transparently receive and spend amounts from it!

yeah, it certainly looks like the $3k range. price has fallen down unexpectedly and without reason and now everyone is confused with a lot of those who sold late wishing for bigger drops so they keep seeing charts in the way the like (pointing to a bigger drop) so that they can buy.
there is a difference though. in the entire first half of month of December, we had a downtrend. but now all we had over the past 30+ days have been stability (chart looks nearly horizontal).

it is a good thing that it is not easy to make nested-SegWit type of wallet in Electrum because the transactions type associated with these types are bigger even if "you" pay lower fee, the nodes are still forced to store a bigger transaction size!
after more than 2 years if you can't use (native) SegWit then you either have to stop using the services that are causing you the trouble or stick to legacy in my opinion.

these tools are not reliable at all. they usually detect false positives and most importantly are incapable of detecting an elaborately designed malicious software. for example a couple of months ago the fake Electrum wallet that was stealing user's funds didn't have a "virus" in it!
the only reliable solution is if you are downloading reviewed software from an open source project and either compile it yourself from source code or if it is built deterministically and you only check its digital signature. if the project doesn't have these options then you must demand it.

virustotal is only checking URLs not the files on that link, if you look at the link you posted it is clear. in fact it has no option to directly download and check a file. you must download it yourself first then upload it to the website for checking.

that's absurd! why would anybody want to run a full node on their smart phone?
a bitcoin full node requires your phone to be connected to the internet for long periods of time (if not constantly) and download/upload a lot of data per day. that is not something a phone battery could do no matter how powerful it is.

also do you know what client they have installed on the phone? is it something they created or a project that already exists or is it just theoretical?!

the pros are:
it is convenient to use and supports a good number of coins that most people want to have the wallet for. and it is easy to use.
the cons are:
it is closed source! even though they have some arbitrary code on GitHub, it does not match what they release and the code is rarely updated! which is another red flag.
it has done certain shady things in the past such as sending your seed to a server.

i don't think you can call those "bots", these things are more like predefined scripts that run on the internet trying to repeat the same thing in an infinite loop. a true trading bot is not something that keeps placing bets opening new orders in the order book that could easily be fooled into executing the big red stop loss button and lead to a loss.
as for "control", people say that because they are looking for someone or something to blame so what better than bots?!