Make them watch these videos:

The one video every beginner without any technical knowledge MUST watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2en3nHxA4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g1XFU8Gto
Then, if you want a more technical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5JGQXCTe3c

And if they have the time (the video is 37 min long) and are really interested in learning about Bitcoin, this is one of the best "introduction to Bitcoin" videos I have ever seen (made by aantonop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1si5ZWLgy0

Your post is confusing. I sent you a PM so I can help you in Portuguese.

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Não entendi muito bem qual sua dúvida. Te enviei uma mensagem privada para poder te ajudar em Português. Olha lá!

Oh... in this case it might be true (I don't know this "LINX", so I can't confirm).
But it still sounds weird. I believe that the only problem is that you won't be able to use the old version of the wallet anymore.

Your coins will probably still be there but not accessible by the old wallet version. If you update to the newer version, everything should be ok.

That's wrong. Where did you read this? Neither Bitcoins or a wallet can "expire".

No. A wallet is just a "client" to help you see and spend your Bitcoin balance.
Your coins will stay in the blockchain until you spend them. And if you know your private key, you can just use the wallet software you want to spend them.

(but of course, it's probably better if you always try to keep your wallet up to date)

Well... I woulnd't exactly call them a "cloudmining". You are basically selling your hash power (from your hardware) to them and not buying a mining contract. A business could keep going with this forever without having to exit scam, so they could be telling the truth. But obviously we can't say for sure that this wasn't an inside job.

I'm just glad that I decided to not play around with my GTX 1070 and mine with them.

Yeah... this "accelerator" is 100% a scam. But honestly, the website is so ugly and badly done that you should have suspected.

If you still want to pay for a legit accelerator, you could use the one from BTC.com (https://pushtx.btc.com/) which may not be worth depending on how much they charge, but it really works. Other than that, I don't know any other legit paid accelerator. And the free ones are doing nothing this days.

Edit: just checked the price for your transaction at the BTC.com accelerator and they are charging you $60. Not worth at all.

That's what it looks like. But this is really what happens - mainly in these groups of pump and dump:

A group of limited people buy cheap shitcoins for X price and make all the other poor and dumb people (who wants to profit with those schemes) to buy them thinking that they will profit in a short amount of time. Of course, the price of the coins rise because there are a lot of people buying them in a short amount of time. But what they don't realize is that only a few people can profit with this (the ones who bought before the price rise).

When the price reaches X*2 (or more), the limited group of people sell all their accumulated coins into the other people heads, making the price crash.

Result:
- the limited group of people got richier.
- a lot of dumb people are stuck with bags of shitcoins.

TLDR: Don't participate in pump and dump groups/schemes.

It's easy and can be done if you have your seed. Just create a new wallet and choose the following:

Wallet with two-factor authenticator -> I already have a seed -> Paste your seed -> Disable; Now you can spend your coins without any 2FA code.

No. It's literally impossible to know something like that.

If you believe that someone may have access to your private key, create a brand new wallet in a safe environment and move your coins asap.

Unfortunately that's right. It's a fixed fee set by Bittrex for every Bitcoin withdraw and there is nothing you can do about it.

Why even bother to use Google Authenticator? You can download a open source 2FA app such as andOTP[1] that has the option to backup and restore 2FA codes. Then, you can just set up your 2FA and upload an encrypted backup to any free cloud provider you want. Never losing access to your accounts again.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.shadowice.flocke.andotp&hl=pt_BR

What version are you using? And is the big circle at the bottom right part of your wallet green?

Have you tried to manually change the server? Unmark "Select server automatically", right click a random server and choose "Use as server";

If nothing of this works, try to recreate your wallet with the same seed. I also have seen people having this same issue just to magically fix it alone later for no reason.

Did you try to send your Vertcoins to the same Electrum wallet where you store your Bitcoins? Because to receive and send Vertcoins, you need to download the Vertcoin version of Electrum[1] and not the official Electrum wallet (for Bitcoin) found in electrum.org;

If that's what happened, try to follow this steps: https://github.com/pooler/electrum-ltc/issues/71

[1] https://electrum.vertcoin.org/

Why would there be another way? The SMAS list has nothing to do with the forum itself. It's just a personal list created by a few campaign managers to help them avoid reviewing already known spammers.

Lauda is the only one that may reconsider.

No. You don't own any of your Coins.ph addresses. And that's why you don't use a web/hosted wallet.

A bunch of fake paid followers doesn't mean shit. For example, the real and official twitter linked by HCP is followed by a few relevant users such as (but not limited to):

@CoinMarketCap
@bitcoingold
@bendavenport (BitGo CTO)

While your fake account is followed by a bunch of fake accounts with no activity. After a quick audit guess what I found:

784 Real
51,484 Fake
1% Audit score
https://www.twitteraudit.com/BITC0INDIAM0ND

Don't get mad scammer  

WOW. Three brand new accounts created in a interval of 5 minutes claiming that a (pretty obvious scam) wallet is legit. It must be true, right?

And one of them, claiming to get 32 BCD even that when clicking any of the buttons you receive this message:
"Because Bitcoin Diamond was not released yet, this option is disabled"

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At least try a little bit to hide the fact that you are all the same person. That's just cringe. ROFL

And why would you use a hosted wallet instead of your normal and secure desktop wallet anyway? Why do people risk their coins with services that may block your IP/account whenever they want? Are you guys that lazy?

I don't think Electrum would be able to block your IP for "suspicious behavior" or "security measures".

andOTP is a free and open source 2FA app for Android that lets you backup and restore your 2FA codes whenever you want.

This means that unlike Google Authenticator, if you lose your phone or need to reset it, your 2FA codes can be restored and your accouns will be safe.

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You can find the app here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-andotp-android-otp-authenticator-t3636993
Github Repo: https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP/releases

You will be able to spend your coins again.

You can't choose when your transaction will be dropped from the mempool. Which means that your transaction may stay stuck for some time if it doesn't get confirmed soon.

Some wallets will even rebroadcast your transaction until it gets confirmed, making it hard to spend your coins to another address or with a higher fee.