yes.
lets say you wanted to buy a $10 game from steam store. $10 is equal to 0.008196BTC with today's price.
you go to your wallet and in there you have multiple transactions each 100,000 satoshi (0.001BTC). to pay for the game you need to spend 9 of those:
that is approximately about 1400 bytes (rough estimate) and with a 220 s/b you'll end up paying about 300,000 satoshi in fee.

the same thing apply here too but with some small differences.
for bitcoin it is always about adoption and whatever that can increase it, can increase the price too. but adoption takes time and it won't happen overnight. for example the news about Japan which has started last year is one of the things that is increasing the price, you may not even notice it but it has been increasing the adoption and it has sped up recently.  and will continue to do so.

unlike bitcoin altcoins don't have any usage. they are only there to be traded. mostly pumped and dumped and for that there is only hype. when they spread some useless news and mostly exaggerate it, the price with some additional manipulations goes up.

in short you need to learn how to differentiate between a false and exaggerated news and a real one and effect of each of them.

people call bitcoin dead whenever they want to buy more coins, sometimes it even works on some idiots who fall for it and panic sell their precious bitcoins. so as far as price is concerned that is not going to happen.

but bitcoin being dead has nothing to do with its price. it is only dead if nobody is using it any longer. and as far as there are nodes out there, even a couple of them, and there are people who mine the transactions, bitcoin will stay alive.

all the previous releases are always available for download:
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/releases
https://download.electrum.org/

and the code is always on Github and not going anywhere and even if it does there are lots of forks that the code can be retrieved from one of them. and on top of that you can always keep a copy of the installer you used.

is it possible that something might be wrong with the download?
i mean maybe you think you are using Electrum but it is something else!

i couldn't agree more.
and in my opinion bitcoin needs more adoption, and more adoption in real world application area. i mean more merchants and more services to accept bitcoin and more people to use it as a currency.
as far as being a speculation tool goes, i don't think we can see very large prices anytime soon because majority of people (average Joe) won't invest in bitcoin because of the volatility.

one interesting thing that i have noticed is that many people around here (specially in signature campaigns) are like parrots. someone with clear agenda spreads some FUD and you see them repeat it all over the forum.

i saw a comment in altcoin board from one of those brainless parrots talking about bitcoin and it having a bug in the code which was exploited! and we have all seen thousands of comments talking about "split" in the past month.

because you are using a faucet or group of them, and each pay what, 50 to 500 satoshi? how much will you earn per hour, per day,... and how long are you willing to wait around to accumulate it in your account on those sites and trust them with your bitcoin that they won't run away before you cash out to your bitcoin address that you control?

in practice that would be somewhere around when you reach 0.001BTC (after about 1000 claims). and when you cash that out to your bitcoin address that is one new output.

and yes you can eliminate that issue by trusting those websites that they won't run away with your satoshis, and keep your coins there until you reach some bigger amount.

it is like this (examples taken from last block mined):
https://blockchain.info/tx/4f569395fbf4938044976fc239cece243d74e0f56105d91d0bf524e721b9f93b?show_adv=true
this is similar to a payment to multiple users/addresses/keys that those services do (bulk payment)
as you can see it is spending one output (one the left) and makes 24 new ones (pays 24 people). the size here is 971 bytes.
now if you want to pay each of these one by one you have to create 24 transactions each of them with about 225 bytes size (since you create 2 new outputs anyways like this) which would be nearly 5400 bytes in total (24*225)

however what happens to you is something like this:
https://blockchain.info/tx/2df28acff8fba40e01bb950b1720d5716e94611219796e6dc577f538c999abcc?show_adv=true
you see all those outputs on the left, these are transactions that you receive as payment.
and as you can see the size of this transasctions with 14 outputs to spend is 2142 bytes. this is because you need to sign each of those outputs with the private key (the wallet does that in the background) and the signature created is taking up space. and the more outputs you have to spend the more the final size would be.

"a matter of time" for what exactly?!
and that is the problem though, most of us have not yet understood what bitcoin is an why it was created. Satoshi has some amount of bitcoin end of discussion. saying it is worth XXX dollar means you still don't know why he created bitcoin.
it wasn't for the price value or to become rich in USD sense.

actually this is what people say when they are too lazy to go into details.
the idea is to buy low when you know price is going high and then sell when you know price won't go any higher.
you can't just put orders and think they MUST be filled.

for instance in Ripple and Ethereum the pumps are over so there is no low anymore. all prices are high and a time for sell. yeah it may bounce back sometimes but the general flow right now is dump-dump-dump.
and for litecoin, nothing is clear at the moment and it is best to stay away.

and remember this is altcoin market we are talking about, it is full of manipulation. the margin trading works in a more logical market not where there is pump and dumps going on.

haha, yeah i still remember those days. it was pretty funny and shameful. they decided to ask for a fee to let people use their wallet and majority of Mutibit users left for other wallet clients and there was even talk of forking Multibit and removing the shameful feature and release it as a third party (i don't know if anybody did that though).
and after a while when it failed miserably, they removed the feature.

a massive demand and adoption is not going to magically appear out of nowhere to push the price up to $3000 (150% in 8 months) just because a stupid FUD goes away.
when the FUD clears, price will have a spike for sure but it won't be that big. we are still on the same slow rising path and with or without FUD we will stay on that path and slowly see a rise up.

i don't knowwhat exodus is but i am assuming it is like the other two.
and these are not bitcoin wallets these are accounts you have created. and they control the private keys and won't give it to you. which is why people said to you before "if you don't have the private keys you don't have bitcoin". these sites that you have an account on control the private keys and your funds and just give you permission to use it and they can terminate that permission for any reason they want.

choose a bitcoin wallet (https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet go to desktop section) and that way you control the private keys and your funds will be in 100% your control.

The fee is determined by the network not by users. what these services do is that they pay their users in bulk and after they reach a certain amount. and that makes the transaction a little smaller (in size byte-wise) than sending it one by one. so they pay a little less fee in total.

the problem for you as a receiver still stands. you still are going to have many Unspent Transaction Outputs (payments you received) and when spending them you will end up with a big transaction size and be forced to pay a higher fee if you wanted a fast confirmation.

yes, not a good idea because you are wasting your time on a faucet but correct

doesn't matter what others say, do YOU care if someone sees your address is receiving payments from faucets?

it is like any other business.
when one is successful, copycats start creating more and more and fail miserably. because as any other business it is not profitable on its own. you have to make it profitable. try to advertise it, get the word out, get people in,... and all other techniques. also the most important one is being unique and in a good way.
right now we keep seeing dice sites pop up with nothing new to offer, so that obviously has failure written all over it.

read that page completely and you will understand what it means.
the privacy reasons are obvious ones.
about the security you have to know that when spending bitcoin you are spending the transactions you have received (UTXOs) and spending means cryptography signing the transaction with your private key.
as the wiki explains, there has been cases (fixed now) that could lead to finding the private key from the signature.

these are rare cases. what you will face is a high fee. when you receive a lot of payments by the time you want to spend 0.01BTC-0.1BTC you will end up paying a huge fee of 0.05BTC for example. because fee is calculated based on the size of tx in bytes https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees

as it was said at least a hundred times before in this topic, if you are new to trading you shouldn't be even wanting to try a bot. first learn how to trade and do it at least for a couple of months manually and then if by that time you felt the need for some level of automation and a bot then seek a good one.
but not now.

bitcoin is money and it can not affect a Country's economy by nature.
and what China did had nothing to do with Yuan price and whether it fell or not. it was all about money laundering and many other illegal money related stuff in a big but unregulated place working with fiat called bitcoin exchanges.

to really get the feel of the chances go look at some of the "Electrum Seed recovery tools" out there. you can even download one from Github and try recovering a dummy seed from a new empty wallet or using this:
from documents. try with 1 missing word then with 2 and so on and see how long it takes.

WHAT!

The FOMO will cause a rise but not to $10000. that is as silly as saying price will fall to $600, it works both ways.
and sorry to disappoint you but all the altcoins are going to die in case of bitcoin rise specially those that were pumped on the premise of bitcoin dying and them replacing it.