This isn't true. The more tickets, the bigger prize pool.
So, with giving users free lottery tickets, they increase the value of prizes and it's not that they don't pay anything for free lottery tickets.

I don't know what specifically you are talking about. But what's the problem if you make a post and some people don't agree with you?
Here is a forum where people can post their ideas about different things freely and without any censorship. It's completely normal that people have different ideas about different topics.

I was able to search for that long text using a search link directly and without filling the search form.
Click here to see the link I get after inserting the text in front of content=.

Try it again. You may made a mistake when copy-pasting the text into your browser's search bar.

The evidence provided by khaled0111 in the other topic was strong enough and everything is clear now.
You are surely the one who scammed 170 dollar worth of bitcoin from alterra57.

Someone who claims to be that innocent third party has created a topic in "Scam Accusations" board against OP.
$500 exchange scam

The scammer probably abused the RBF feature.
If a transaction has been flagged as RBF, (as long as it is unconfirmed) it can be replaced by a new transaction spending a same input and having a higher fee rate and higher absolute fee.

In your case, the fee rate used for the original transaction was 1 sat/vbyte and it was replaced with a new transaction using the fee rate of 3 sat/vbyte.
In the replacement transaction, the scammer sent the fund to his/her own address.

The 21 million is the total supply of bitcoin and not all of them have been generated yet.
Till now, around 19.1 million bitcoins have been generated.


Although that's possible, you are right. There is no proof of that.

This doesn't mean trustwallet is secure. Everything can happen in the future.


There's still the probability that they track your transactions even if you use their non-custodial wallet.
They can link your transactions and your addresses with your IP address.

Electrum is surely a good choice, but I wouldn't recommend trustwallet. Trustwallet gives you access to your private keys. But since it's close-source, there is no guarantee that you are the only one who has access to the keys.

As far as I know, seed phrases generated by blockchain.info wallet from that list contains 16-20 words.
As OP's seed phrase includes 12 words, I don't think it can be generated by blockchain.info wallet.

Armory gives you 18 sets of meaningless four-letter words which is called root key.
Given that OP has a seed phrase including 12 words, it can't be generated by Armory.

Are you saying that Satoshi may have lied to us and bitcoin is centralized? If so, that's not possible.
Bitcoin is an open-source project and we all know how it is working.
Anyone can download the blockchain and keep a copy of it. Anyone is able to validate transactions. Anyone is able to make transaction without relying on any third party.

There is no doubt that Satoshi has mined bitcoin in the early days. But no one knows how many bitcoin has been mined by Satoshi.

To mine bitcoin, you must solve a mathematical problem which is called proof of work. That problem is solved through brute-force method and anyone (or a group of people) who finds the solution faster than others can claim the reward.

There is no proof that satoshi has that number of bitcoins. Any number you hear is only a guess.


No. Bitcoin private keys are secure enough.

A small correction:
Miners get the new generated coins (which is currently 6.25 BTC per block) and the fee paid for the transactions included in the block.

Transactions are recorded and stay in the blockchain forever.
If you don't see any transaction, it means that the wallet you opened has been never used.

With verifying the signature, you only make sure that you haven't downloaded a fake version of electrum. That doesn't mean you are 100% secure. There's still the chance that your computer is infected with a malware. 


Follow the guide provided by DireWolfM14.
[GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]

You can import your seed phrase into your new laptop. In this way, you can have access to your bitcoin in both laptops.
If you worry about the security of your old laptop, you should create a new wallet in the new laptop and make a transaction and move all the fund to your new wallet. In this way, your bitcoin will be no longer accessible in the old laptop.  
Note that with having the same wallet in two computers, you double the risk of getting hacked, being robbed, etc.

To make sure of that, I just created a watch-only wallet and tested it with ismine command in console tab. As shown in the following image, that's possible.

Right. Even now, bitcoin core doesn't support seed phrase.


If all words exist in the old electrum word list, there's a big probability that the wallet has been generated by electrum.
Maybe, the wallet hasn't been funded at all and that's simply why you don't see any balance.