As far as I know, Electrum has no problem with signing messages with both Nested and Bech32 type of address. Although, you can verify signed message with these types of address only using the latest Electrum, it seems that their implementation isn't compatible with others. The lack of standard takes its toll. This feature is quite popular, Bitcoin Core Team should fix it in the next version.

Github issue: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10542

In my opinion, steady growth would be much better. Strong spikes showed us that Bitcoin is not prepared for huge amount of transaction. As far as I remember, it all started somewhere around SegWit activation in August 2017. Bitcoin price stabilized recently and even fees went down to 1 sat/b, they weren't that cheap for years. What will happen after next price spike? Both Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 and Electrum have SegWit support which might help a little. We still have to wait for Lightning Network developers to make it more stable. Also, it seems that huge spikes attract more investors, quite dangerous when you think more about it.

Cash is not completely anonymous like Bitcoin. You still have to meet the person you want to trade with in the real life. Also, it is quite dangerous to carry a bag with lots of money inside. I would rather use Monero if I had to. Due to its design, its transactions are completely anonymous which means lower risk. I don't think that a cryptocurrency backed by anything can survive. Fiat also used to be backed by gold and look what happened. Petrodollar is said to be backed by oil, who will ensure that is stays like that?

You should still be able to use the old address since Blockchain.info generates new addresses from you wallet's xPUB. A lot of people who participate in the signature campaigns use Blockchain.info and it seems that they don't have any issues with reusing addresses. Nobody else will be able to use this address. Anyway, consider switching to Electrum, you won't have to trust third party to keep your bitcoins safe.

#Edit: buwaytress was a bit faster than me, I'll keep my post since it might be also helpful.

I'm glad that you have managed to recover your coins, try to be more careful next time.
You can see on the picture below what I actually meant. I was not able to check further steps because I have sold my Ledger Nano S sometime ago.

Download the latest Electrum wallet and try importing your seed. Electrum will ask you for a derivation path. Replace the first number (44) with 49 and hit next. Check the addresses tab to see your addresses and their balance, it might be not visible unless you enable it in the "View".

Edit: You can also try to restore a wallet using your Ledger which won't force you to enter seed. I don't remember how it works so I don't know if you can change the derivation path.

Ledger, Trezor and other companies should start to support the new Bitcoin Cash address format. A lot of people accidentally send their BTC to BCH address or the opposite.
The only thing I could find was the link below. However, it is an instruction for recovering Bitcoin Cash from SegWit address. Are you the owner of the address to which you sent BTC? If so, recovery should be possible.

https://bch.btc.com/docs/help/bch_segwit_recovery

It is impossible to create something that cannot be hacked. A lot of people still think that banks are impossible to breach but I really doubt it. I don't understand why people use web wallets and I have no idea why would they give their crypto to a bank which would "secure their crypto". The best method for now is cold storage and I guess it won't change for years. I wouldn't risk lending crypto. Assuming that their price would be still volatile, you could get into a serious problem.

Of course, it is possible for some coin to surpass Bitcoin but it is very unlike to happen. In my opinion, if something could surpass Bitcoin then it would have to be one of the currently existing cryptocurrencies. I am not a fan of ICOs, a lot of people believe that the coin they select will grow in value the same as Bitcoin did. Bitcoin will continue to expand and become faster which will lead to a huge grown in its popularity. Some of you will probably disagree with me. If you do, please show me the cryptocurrency which could beat Bitcoin in your opinion.

Banks have already started trying to implement "blockchain technology" into their current system. I think that they are trying to lure people who have heard about cryptocurrencies but they are not into more technical things. We can't really prevent it, can someone enlighten me why would they replace their system with something that won't change much for them and will only generate huge costs? The rich might try to create their own coin without any distinguishing features, pump it and then sell it.

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Touchscreen might be easier to break but it is definitely better than it comes to using it. Also, PIN, seed and passphrase can be entered directly on the device so at least you don't have to worry about keyloggers. Ledger was the first one to create a touchscreen wallet with Bluetooth (which isn't supported by any app) and they discontinued their product which was more expensive than Trezor T and had less features (lack of SD card slot for example but is is probably due to the design of Ledger's devices).

Actually, I often see that many people, in my country, recommend using either Bitcoin Core or Electrum as a first wallet. Usually, most newbies decide to use Electrum because it doesn't require you to download lots of data. I have met quite a lot people who didn't know about SegWit at all.


Oh, I almost forgot about people who would rather increase the blocksize. Well, even if Legacy wasn't included they still could use another software or even a paper wallet.

Honestly, at first I thought that I saw another fake news and decided to ignore it but it quickly turned out that I was wrong. Why did he change his mind so suddenly? Cryptocurrencies are used by criminals, we all know it but blaming them for it is inappropriate. I would say that fiats have higher share when it comes to criminality. I understand the concern about terrorism but governments are abusing these tools. That's why we need cryptocurrency. Money privacy should be as important as correspondence privacy.

What's the point of keeping legacy? If some services are still not compatible with Bech32 then Nested should work just fine. Your GUI edit looks pretty good but it would confuse newbies which probably don't see any difference between these three types of addresses. Don't you think that there should be a short description of every type of address? I guess that Bech32 won't be a standard wallet because some services still have problem with this type of address.

Don't you think that Bitcoin is something more than a currency or a long-term investment? Take a look and count how many new jobs were created: miners, cryptocurrency traders and developers, hardware wallets engineers and so on. We can call it a new industry which is slowly growing and will eventually be worth billions of dollars. Bitcoin does not guarantee any profits, it is profitable because of investors and ordinary people who believe that Bitcoin will replace banks.

I hope they will finish shipping out pre-orders by the end of the next week. Did anyone here pre-ordered their new device? What batch are you in? I'm in the third batch. Magnetic dock is a nice thing to have but I have no idea where I should place it. What a pity that SD card features are not ready yet, hopefully they will release proper updates to enable such things as encrypting, labeling etc. According to TREZOR's twitter, regular sales should start in Q2 2018.

Thanks to the 0.16 Bitcoin Core update, bech32 might become more popular in short period of time. It isn't default type of address, though. If they forced people to use them then the adaptation would be much faster but there are many services and exchanges which still don't support sending to such addresses. It looks like they don't really care about fees.

I really like your attitude to Bitcoin Core's actions. Most people would like to push a lot of upgrades as soon as possible. It causes a lot of technical problems and tension in the community. Since scalability problem seems to be solved for now (assuming that Lightning Network will succeed soon), maybe it's time for making transactions more private? Although, I'm afraid that this could lead to ban of Bitcoin in more countries.

What I meant was that if you want to use dedicated Chrome app with your Ledger Nano S created by Ledger Team, you won't be able to use your own node for Bitcoin and altcoins. This is a huge drawback because their servers could become overloaded - it actually happened in the past and that was one of the reasons why I sold my Ledger Nano S. If you are going to store only Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin then Trezor would be a great choice. It doesn't support as many altcoins as Ledger but its support is definitely great.

That's quite interesting point of view. 2009-2010 would be definitely too early for Bitcoin to become noticed by large companies and governments. I guess you don't understand the point of Bitcoin's existence at all. Bitcoin was supposed to help us create a currency which wouldn't require any third party. Someone could now say that Lightning Network breaks this rule but keep in mind it's a second layer solution, nobody is forced to use it. No exchanges? No ability to keep coins in my own wallet generated offline? Let's go further. Get rid of miners and allow central banks to reverse or freeze transactions.