keep it up, the paper has to be a lot shorter than this. check out bitcoin paper for example. it doesn't explain any details, it is more like the abstract explanation of the whole project while focusing only on important matters.
you already have a website, add a section to it called "wiki" or something like that where you could just copy all of the extra information there.

ok, that makes more sense now. but then if it is like an optional feature you can't include it as a main thing in your project. it is more like the BIPs (bitcoin improvement protocols like HD wallets and mnemonics), they aren't part of the protocol, they are improvement of it.

well, all the cases i have seen where people lose their keys is user mistakes such as installing a malicious software, having key loggers, even bugs in some wallet implementations (eg. reused k values for signing),... and then most of the other ways i have seen such as fingerprint could potentially be vulnerable for the same users under same conditions. for example if they install the same malicious software they can lose their coins just the same!
as for methods i didn't have fingerprint in mind, mainly the DNA thing and the EEG that was mentioned in the article.

it seems i was wrong about this. i did some search and it appears that EEG is a safe procedure and the only complication i could find was the possibility of causing seizure in people with epilepsy .

i don't know about Exodus but Coinomi is closed source and worst of all is not transparent about it (they have a github repository which has a source code but the released versions are not related to that code), and i wouldn't trust such a wallet.

this seems more like a scam to me. OP creates an account on GitHub a couple of days ago (July 29) then creates a shady tool and calls it a "multiwallet" and advertises here!

in your "Send" tab where you are filling the information of the "recipient" there is a little button at the bottom called "Add Recipient", when you click it, it adds a new set of fields to be filled for the other "recipients". click it as many times as you want and fill them with the required information.
to send the change to the same address you can click that button one more time and set the remaining coins minus the fees to go to that address.

such person should never invested in bitcoin in first place because when someone is waiting 3 years and doesn't buy but then buys at the top of the peak after the price has gone up 12966% it is obvious he is taking an uncalculated risk and is bound to lose money.
the real "shock" is when someone buys bitcoin for the first time at the top of the bubble not when bubble pops and price drops.

i don't see any change! it has always been like this. there are top/good campaigns usually paying higher too, which have stricter rules and want higher quality posters and there are newer campaigns which usually pay less and don't know or don't care about the quality and are easier to join. everything else is just based on manager's opinion and how they copy each other. for instance length of post is something that became popular recently. otherwise if you ask me it should never matter how long your post is. a 1 word post can be more constructive than an essay. same with merit, rank, or even trust. the post quality should be the only thing that matters.

in  my opinion the biggest problem with your project is that you fail to explain how it works.
for example i just read your paper. more than 80% of it is explaining "problems" the remaining 20% doesn't exactly explain your solution for them it just mentions the solution.
for instance page 4,5,6 are explaining the problem with storing private keys (which i have to say i disagree with it being a problem in first place) then page 7 basically says "Scroda ID" solves the problem. then in about 3 paragraphs you explain works done in the field and i still can't figure out how this is implemented in your project and also it raises a big question for me: "will i need special equipment to open a wallet?" and also what are the dangers of using "EEG" each time i want to spend money!!!
you should have shortened those 3 pages into 3 lines and then explained your technique in 1 page covering every detail.

i still have to read the rest with more details as it explains the  Two-Factor Proof-of-Knowledge and the Sub-Second thing. but i still think the paper should be shortened and simplified more. the paper is meant to introduce the project in as short as possible. then you could start a documentation page explaining everything in details as long as you wanted.

my thought were since phones don't have a USB port you can't use hardware wallets with them unless a special one is created to connect to the Micro-USB port of smart phones.
... i wasn't thinking of OTG cables

you were correct about the following, i still find it weird that this feature exists in Mycelium, i wonder if it was added by popular demand.

there is a popular saying in stock market circles that says "If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stocks, not selling advice." and that statement applies here too. if these random people were really good at analyzing the market and using TA,... to predict the price then they would have never wasted their times creating videos, editing them, publishing,... for small peanuts that they earn from the ads on Youtube.

haha, he is making the mistake that is very common among the newbies who come in bitcoin world and are blind when they look at charts
the mistake is comparing this year with 2017!!! this year has nothing in common with 2017 which was the peak of the bubble and the final stage of the roller coaster pattern that bitcoin has. basically bitcoin always starts slow in its rises then slowly gains momentum until it becomes fastest and biggest to end it with a bubble and then the next phase starts with the bubble burst.

now we are in the start of that slow recovery/rise. in other words 2019 must be compared with 2015 not 2017. and newbies are too lazy and naive to look at the whole chart. they only look at the closest thing (ie 2017) and try to find similarities there...

as a result, the bull run HAS STARTED already. and we are in 7th month of it.

bitcoin private keys are numbers that can be from 1 to a 32 bytes long number tops. but since you can't print a byte array for the user we have to encode it with some encoding technique. one of them is hexadecimal format or base-16 which turns each byte to 2 characters hence the resulting 64 character long key. another format is base-58 with a checksum also known as Wallet Import Format (WIF) which can have 51 or 52 (not 62, you miscounted) characters in it.

ps. we always pad the keys, for example if you choose private key = 1 which is 1 byte then we pad it with 31x 0 bytes to make it 32 bytes in total then encode it.

oh yeah of course, that is the only thing that matters as long as you are sure that the preinstalled version is legit. but i was just pointing out the main question here regarding "verification of the already installed Electrum on Tails." and how you couldn't be sure about it so there are still ways to lose money even if you were offline.

since this is a "phone wallet" and i don't know of any hardware wallet that you could connect to your phone most of all Trezor, i am going to say no it does not support it.
and it should not do that, you should use phone wallets for carry around money not to connect your major funds in cold storage to it.

i can think of at least 5 different ways that a malicious wallet can steal your funds without even needing any internet connection. it goes from simplest way of changing your payto field to advanced cryptographic ways of revealing your private key to the hacker without you even noticing since the transaction wouldn't look any different.

downloading, verifying and installing that is always the safest option. anything else is a workaround and is not as safe since you may miss many things.
as for hashes there are about 400-500 files in the tarball that you install on Linux and you'll have to calculate hash of each file and check it against the real files!

actually most of these dudes that keep predicting high prices are advertising their business. usually they run some sort of investment firm or something like that which would benefit if there were more speculators and investors in bitcoin space. and the only way to increase that is to tell gullible viewers that price is going to shoot up.

as for halving, the effects will have 2 stages. the first will be the hype which will only happen about 1 or 2 months before the halving date itself and the second will be the real supply rate decrease which will slowly start after halving when 1-2 months passes.

your topic doesn't make any sense whatsoever!
you claim bitcoin future is not clear and then claim to have taken a very huge risk investing in it. these two are in direct contradiction of each other. when you know something is so risky and has "unclear future" then you should not invest what you can not afford to lose.

there doesn't have to be some evil forces hard at work to make people want that profit (in fiat terms). it is the people themselves who saw the gigantic rise and slowly forgotten the real reasons why bitcoin was created. a quick look at the past 10 years can show you that price has gone up a lot. if we assume initial price was $0.01 then price has gone up 200 million percent! that is 55k% per day. such rise is bound to attract "speculators" who want their fiat multiplied.
BUT none of that changes the nature of bitcoin from being a currency though.

the problem is in that first step: choosing a long and truly random passphrase that can not be guessed at all. generally speaking people have shown that they will always choose things that can be guessed which makes brainwallets bad in general.
otherwise there have been users that created brainwallets and posted the address as a challenge online and it was never broken.

if someone insists on using brainwallets then i can only suggest using some other method other than a simple SHA256 on it. something unique that nobody knows. that way to steal the funds the hacker has to find 2 things: the random long passphrase and the hash algorithm.
for example you could use a KDF function such as scrypt with custom settings (eg. n=2048, r=5, p=2) and derive a 32 byte key from that. or using SHA3-256, SHA512/256, Blake2b-256,... the list goes on.

ps. BIP39 is also worth mentioning here as it is a mnemonic which is a set of words in any language which you could memorize instead of a brainwallet. it is harder but it much safer since they represent a good random entropy. this could also solve the "torture" problem as you could add a single "word" to the list as its extension so you have 1 mnemonic but two wallets. the wallet with the mnemonic can contain a small amount that you could reveal under torture! and the wallet with mnemonic+passphrase contains the actual funds. => good for paranoid people.

that is one way of looking at the market but another way which i think is the correct way is to see it rise from $3000 to $13000 and then fall to $10000. that puts things in a much better perspective compared to only focusing on the drop part.
i personally don't consider anything above $10k to be worrying. $9.6k is a little worrying but since it has been holding nicely i still wouldn't call it a crash. but if we go below $9k and stay there then i would start to worry and call it a downtrend.

do you by any chance know the version of the wallet you used to create this account? if it is one of the old ones then i had the same issue, i've created my account in 2014. the reason for it is because these wallet files are using an old version and blockchain.info messed up with their backward compatibility. so when you try logging in, it first tries to convert it to the new version and fails so you get stuck and can't get in your account.

"most"?
i don't even know of a single case of a loan that is given without a collateral or at least some sort of guarantee for the lender to get his money back. i would love to take such a loan without collateral if you know, let us know with an example
also you seem to be forgetting that "bitcoin" loans that you see all over the forum and in other websites are irreversible money transfers to someone anonymous online. they can not even work without a solid collateral!