i learned about bitcoin back in 2012- early 2013 and what i heard was that there is this thing called bitcoin which you can generate on your PC and sell it for a good profit. my friend was mining bitcoin and was earning money. so i never bothered with it back then!

then again in 2014 i heard about it again but this time i heard there is this thing called bitcoin that you could use to make payments online without any restrictions or middleman,... so i was hooked. and that's when i entered bitcoin.

this is already an old news from many days ago and there are multiple topics discussing this with no purpose. and that address has a higher chance of belonging to a big service instead of a big whale, specially since whales don't keep all their coins in one address, they spread them around for this very reason (so people don't see what they do that easily!).

no problem.
and essentially yes. the malware is just using bitcoin nodes that have the ElectrumX software installed to index their database to fetch the transaction. the wallet is not even involved, in other words they are using the protocol.
you have to keep your computer safe from the malware in first place which is said to initially be spread by "get paid to install" micojobs.

haha, if they had such a successful business model to give such a gigantic profit in a short time then they wouldn't have needed your investment


in other words you are telling him to escape one scam and run towards another (ICO).
as for masternodes, they are super risky because first of all you have to store a large amount of cryptocurrency in an online wallet that could be hacked. then there is the fact that you are buying a large amount of an altcoin and we know how altcoins get dumped hard. that dump can easily eat through your profit and your capital at the same time.

lol, yeah it was funny and coincidental to see price go down a little after this news instead of shooting up. but there was no connection though. it was just another indication of the panic mode being ON these days since the price didn't break into $11k range some panic began and the price took a dive but since it was panic it recovered back up to $10.5 again.

that's not how it works!
the QR code can't steal anything from your phone when you scan it. i don't know which scanning app you use but usually what they do is simply they "translate" the squares into a human readable string. that's all. they don't run anything, or read anything from your phone.

there is a malware called Glupteba that has been infecting computers for a couple of years. it exploits vulnerabilities in windows,... to infect and then steals sensitive information. later on it added a Monero miner to its code to also mine this altcoin on user's computers.
there is no bitcoin involved so far.

then there is this:

whenever they want to change these C&C servers they create a new bitcoin transaction to an address hardcoded in the malware and put the server address in its new OP_RETURN output.
then the malware uses the bitcoin network to fetch that bitcoin transaction using Electrum servers, reads the OP_RETURN data and decodes it to the server address and some additional info.

there is no "attack on btc blockchain" and has nothing to do with "electrum wallet" and there is no bitcoin being transferred using this malware either.

the altcoin market is not something you can find reason in. it just acts wildly and the more shitty and centralized the coins are the more unpredictable they will be. for example why did this shitcoin go up 3200% in the past 24 hours? pump and dumps are the only reason such shitcoins that you named exist in first place so they are being used as a "tool", a tool to make money by fooling newbies with the pumps.

actually there is no longer that much news about "new real" Satoshi Nakamoto these days specially after CSW's fraud because official and the court considered him guilty so he should pay a huge amount of money as a result.

why do you think this address is "invalid" or have "non-supported characters"?


you can not be sure unless you have actually verified the digital signature of the installer you downloaded and installed with this PGP public key. and unfortunately it seems like you didn't and were a victim of a phishing attack:
similar case with same address: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072

you can't expect the market to skip steps!
so yeah, this is not like 2017 bull run because that would mean skipping a half a dozen steps. this bull run is like the 2015 bull run where price is slowly coming out of the lowest price that was reached after the previous bubble in 2013 at $1200. the reversal is nearly identical to today's reversal. that was from $150 to $500 and the launch from there to previous ATH ($1200) and setting the new ATH at $20k and this is reversal from $3100 to $10k and then launch to the new ATH possibly at $100k?

$1 is awful but when you compare it with yourself you should also consider the "cost of living" factor. for example with some search the cost of living in US for single person is $1100 per month and that's without rent. renting a one bedroom apartment in NY would cost $3000 per month. the rents for 1 bedroom apartment in Tehran (capital city of where OP is from) is somewhere around $300-$500.
... the problem however is not that, the problem is the super inflation!

"marketing strategy"! what are you talking about?
nobody gives a shit how many people are searching for a term apart from some bored news sites that look for articles to write. investors look at the potentials not at what others search, and so on.
not to mention that like many other things, it moves AFTER the price rise not before it. in other words in 2017 when price was rising the search increased AFTER the rises meaning first price goes up, then the media coverage comes and then people become interested and finally search for it to see what bitcoin is.

you shouldn't even be comparing bitcoin and gold because they have nothing in common and not in the same category for one to replace the other. bitcoin is a currency and gold is many things but not a currency. gold will remain as it is as long as it keeps its use cases which it will. and bitcoin, as a separate and entirely different thing will grow only as long as it is offering what it is suppose to, meaning a decentralized secure payment system that is censorship resistant.

lol. just another large transfer which "news sites caught" so everyone is going crazy about it these days. otherwise there are a lot of other transactions like this happening and lots of addresses with large amounts stored in them but people don't talk about only because the news sites never put them on their radar!
here are some examples;
and out of this 10, only 5 of them are obvious exchange wallets!

the only wallet software that i know of that used "*.wallet" extension name was MultiBit wallet which is now discontinued. since MultiBit was around back in 2013 it also matches the dates of those files (2013-11 and 2014-07). it also used a similar format to store the wallet files (meaning it included dates). so you might want to download MultiBit and check if it can import/read your files. here is the website: https://multibit.org/ you still can find releases at the bottom of the page.

ps. make sure to make a backup of the files before importing them in any software.

i honestly don't understand the weird obsession with selective addresses are specially when the obsession is only over the amount since there is no information about who and why!

unlike popular belief the large amounts are being transferred using bitcoin regularly. you can see lots of them on the blockchain almost every week.
this is the list of about ~34000 transactions that have a output total of bigger than 1000BTC (from 1000 to 157457BTC or $10 million+ only in 2019

the first rule of being a day trader is to not ask others what to do! you should be able to speculate on your own and have a high success rate of at least 80%. if you don't then you shouldn't day trade.

my opinion, is that below $10k is getting harder each time we complete a new cycle of sideways movement and bitcoin has been bullish for months which makes it even harder to go down. at this point i only expect a drop if some bad news comes out or some whales decide to manipulate the market. otherwise i don't see drops.

it was so much more complicated than you think!
for starters the bitcoin situation:
it was the first time we reached the ATH (the 2013 one) again and price (much like today) was stable at above $1k. the only thing ETF rejection did was a temporary panic sell that lasted less than a day. price was already struggling to break the previous ATH which was a strong resistance back then which is why bitcoin wasn't going up for 2 month until April.

as for ETH, it had nothing to do with bitcoin, ETF or anything like that. at that particular time (March 2017) the ethereum foundation was spending millions of dollars in advertising the shit out of their shitcoin that is why it got pumped hard during that month. the two biggest thing they did apart from ICO scam booming was creation fake news claiming big name such as Microsoft are adopting Ethereum which in reality they had just created a member-driven organization and the only involvement that comanies like Microsoft have with ethereum is a App Development Kit for Azure so that you could use their cloud computing platform!
the other thing was Vitaliks attempts at advertising his shitcoin so that he could dump his premine coins. the biggest thing he did was to meet with Putin.
the result was that market went crazy and thought ETH is a good investment so it got pumped hard.

in other words ETF rejection news was so small that the only effect it had was that half a day drop in bitcoin price!

if you have sufficient proof that these repositories contain a malicious software then you should instead report them to GitHub through their contact pages (probably report abuse here: https://github.com/contact/report-content) or report the user directly from their profile like the third link: https://github.com/contact/report-abuse?report=gonzo482+%28user%29 and help get it removed from the source. (it has already happened for most of the links as they are removed from GitHub but not all.)