The answer to this question should be given by TheQuin.
I can only say that there's nothing to worry about. The lottery is provably fair and there is no way to cheat the users. The only problem is that participants have to wait some more time.

Whenever they publish the list, the hash of the block that will be used for the calculations is unknown.

A new bitcoin block is mined every 10 mintues on average. So, mining 12 blocks should take only about 2 hours and that's not what has caused the delay.
Note that tickets number list hasn't been published yet. They should publish the list in their twitter and 12 bitcoin blocks should be mined after the list published.

Musk caused only some short-term manipulations and can no longer have any significant effect on the market.
Also, mining is still profitable. As mentioned by o_e_l_e_o above your post, the total hash power is now at its all time high. That couldn't happen, if mining wasn't profitable.
The following chart shows bitcoin total hash power changes over time.


blockchain.com

Depending on how the exchange works, it may be possible.
After you make a deposit to your exchange deposit address, the exchange sends the fund to their own wallet.
If the wallet used by the exchange is publicly known, it should be easy to find out what exchange the address belongs to.

Use walletexplorer.com.

The winner is determined through a provably fair lottery. But that doesn't mean it's done completely automatically.
The first step is that they will publish a list including user ID of all the participants and their lottery tickets in their twitter. That list hasn't been published yet.
After the list is published, you should wait about two hours for 12 bitcoin blocks to be solved. After that the winner will be determined through mathematical calculations.

The address has received 944 BTC and has spent all of that.

Note that when you withdraw from an exchange, the withdrawal isn't made from the address you deposited to.
When you deposit fund to your deposit address, exchange sends the fund from your deposit address to their own wallet and when you request a withdrawal, the exchange send you the fund from their own wallet.


Exchanging bitcoin to usdt or exchanging any other coin/token to any other coin/token is done on the exchange, not on the blockchain. So, trades are not recorded in the blockchain at all.

Here we are talking about bitcoin and note that there is no connection between bitcoin and ethereum blokchains.

If you send 1 BTC to a bitcoin address (whether it's owned by an exchange and you want to trade with your bitcoin or it's owned by someone and you want to buy something), an output with the value of 1 BTC is created and will be owned by the owner of that address. If you search for the receiving address in a blockchain explorer, you will see that address has received 1 BTC. Note that your transaction may include an extra output as the change.
It's also possible to make a transaction with multiple outputs. For example, you can pay 1 BTC to address A, 2 BTC in address B and 3 BTC to address C in a single transaction.

This is correct.
That address received 8 BTC in e3a1....822c and spent that in 5c14....a285.


You are right that that address has spent 8 BTC in that transaction, but that doesn't mean there must be an output with the value of 8 BTC as well.
A bitcoin transaction can have multiple inputs and multiple outputs and each of them can have different values.

Note that any bitcoin transaction can have multiple inputs and multiple outputs.
There are 62 inputs and 57 outputs in the transaction in question and one the inputs is the 8 BTC you are referring to.


That's because there's no address receiving 8 BTC at all.
It's not that there should be a 8 BTC ouput, because there's a 8 BTC input.

I don't think there's any syncing issue.
OP said that he can't find the address he is looking for at all. He also said that he can see the balance on the watch-only wallet.
Most probably, OP is using a seed phrase which belongs to another wallet.

Kucoin do allow unverified users to withdraw up to 1 BTC per day. Below is the last announcement they have made regarding withdrawal limit for unverified accounts.  
Announcement Regarding the Adjustment of Daily Withdrawal Limit

In the transaction in question, 0.00572674 BTC has been sent from 1....LaZ and 0.00553948 BTC of that has been sent back to the sender as the change.
The 250,000 USDT you are referring to has been sent through Omni layer. You can use omniexplorer.info to check the USDT transaction.

This is not true.
Even if your post includes wrong information, moderators won't take any action against that. Moderators will delete your post if it has been made against the rules and gets reported. For example, your post can be deleted if it's considered as spam or off topic.
Your post won't be deleted even if it includes obviously bad suggestion. For example, your post won't be deleted if you say "it's safe to hold your coins in an exchange and you should avoid non-custodial wallets."


There's no age restriction in the forum.

When inflation rate is high, federal reserve may increase the interest rate to control money supply and decrease the inflation rate.
Given the current high inflation rate, it's expected that federal reserves increase the interest rate by 75 basis points in their next meeting. This is affecting all the markets including bitcoin.

tomahawk9, US inflation rate isn't at its 40 year high now.
As you  mentioned in your topic, September annual interest rate was 8.2%. That's 0.1% lower than August annual interest rate and obviously can't be at 40 year high. It was US core inflation rate that reached its 40 year high, not inflation rate. In core inflation rate, food and energy products are excluded.

Take note that you don't have to use a hardware wallet even if you hold million dollars worth of bitcoin and you want 100% security.
A good hardware wallet guarantees that your keys are kept offline and there is no way to get hacked. In the case you generate the keys on an airgapped device, your keys can be completely secure even without a hardware wallet.

In the case you can't use an airgapped device for generating your keys, then using a hardware wallet is the best solution, especially if you hold huge amount of funds.

Didn't you login to the new account (the one created by your friend) with your own IP address?
I don't know how their system exactly works, but they probably have some tools for detecting multiple accounts. Casinos usually detects multiple accounts easily even if you try to hide the truth.
You broke their rules. Although the account had been created by your friend, you were the real owner of that. Wasn't you?

It's the first time I hear this. I hadn't ever heard of any bug causing problem when making transaction from a native segwit address to a legacy address.
I read the thread you shared, but could't find any information about the issue you are talking about.
Am I missing something in that thread?

So, the assumption made by Taskford above was correct.
I am not sure, but maybe betnomi don't believe that the new account has been created by your friend and that's why they don't allow you to make a withdrawal.
You didn't tell us whether you have contacted their support or not. They should tell you what's causing the issue.

Ethereum was using a different algorithm than bitcoin. So, those people who were mining ethereum can't mine bitcoin with the same machines at all.
The cryptography algorithm used for ethereum was KECCAK-256 while bitcoin uses SHA256.