If you generate and use a paper wallet in the correct way, it's secure.

- The private key (or the seed phrase*) should be generated on an air-gapped device.
- You should make sure that the keys has been generated completely random.
- You shouldn't use a tool you don't know exactly how it works.
- The private key (or the seed phrase) should never touch the internet.
- You should keep the paper wallet in a secure place.
- It's recommended to have multiple copies from the paper wallet and keep them in different places.
- For more security, you can use metal sheets instead of a paper, so it's resistant to water and fire.


*By old definition, a paper wallet includes a single private key and single address. But you can generate a seed phrase instead of a single private key and have numerous addresses. With multiple addresses, you can protect your privacy.

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Why has my newly created Bitcoin address already been used?

If you use a SPV wallet (a wallet in which you don't need to download the full blockchain), the server you connect to has the ability to link your addresses with each other and to your IP address.

Let's say you have created an HD wallet with numerous addresses in electrum (the best SPV wallet I know). Since electrum is a SPV wallet and you don't have the full blockchain on your device, you have to connect to a server for getting data from the blockchain. The server you connect to can know all the addresses belong to a same person and also link them to your IP address. There is no guarantee that this server won't share this information with others.

If you want more privacy, you must use bitcoin core and run your own full node.

Currently, miners can claim 6.25 BTC for every block they mine. This reward isn't for validating transactions. There are many full nodes validating transactions and helping the network without getting any reward for that.
A miner can solve the proof of work problem, broadcast a block without any transaction and get the 6.25 BTC.


As stated by Charles-Tim, the block reward has decreased from 50 BTC to 6.25 BTC and mining is still profitable. That's 87.5% decrease in block reward.
The following image shows the total hash rate change over the time. As you see, we reached a new all time high a few days ago.


Source: blockchain.com


Anyone who can't make profit stops mining. This causes the difficulty to decrease and mining becomes more profitable for others.

Most probably, no combination of those words corresponds to a funded wallet.
Even if there's a funded wallet with those words, as already mentioned in previous posts, it's impossible to brute-force the seed phrase. Those who gave you the words knew this very well.


Hope they didn't give you a link to a fake website and you have downloaded electrum from its official website.

Can you share a screenshot from the new window that pops up after clicking on "Wallet Properties" button?
You should see "Backup This wallet" option at right side of the window.

Note that, since you are a newbie you can't post image. Just share your image on an image hosting website like imgur and post the link here.

There is no master private key to be exported from Armory.
Armory generates child private keys in a different way. It doesn't use the BIP32 standard which is used by electrum and many other wallets.
So, if you want to import an Armory wallet to electrum, the only option is to use child private keys.

You haven't paid more. You have paid less than the required amount and that's why you can't wear copper membership.
According to the image you posted, you have already paid 0.0005 BTC and you need to pay 0.00006996 BTC more to be able to wear copper membership.

No. Why should you face a problem?
If you think a post has been made against the rules, report it to moderators. This will help the forum and the community will be so thankful to you.
You can also write a short comment and tell moderators why you believe the post is against the rules.

I recommend you to read the good guide made by welsh.
[Unofficial Guide] Reporting effectively

And note that once you reach 300 good reports, you will be able to see your report history.

You are right. The seed phrase isn't stored on the wallet file. But there's still the probability that your computer is compromised and your seed phrase is stolen when creating the wallet.
Even if the wallet is 2FA, it should be created on an air-gapped device.

For having a secure 2FA wallet, you should:
1. Create the wallet on an airgapped device
2. Move the wallet file to an online computer
3. Register on trustedcoin

This doesn't mean Coinbase is secure.
It's true that the person you are talking about hasn't had any problem with coinbase till now. But there is no guarantee that there won't be any problem in future.
Now coinbase is showing him a number as his balance and promise that he will be able to withdraw that. This promise can be broken at any time.

I think your question is how to send the fund from binance to your wallet.
In the case I am getting you correctly, you open your wallet, copy your address, go to binance and make a withdrawal to the address you copied from your wallet.


Using swap feature in trustwallet, you can trade some tokens.
Just note that both pairs must be on the same network. For example, you can trade two ERC20 tokens or two BEP20 tokens with each other. You can't trade bitcoin with ethereum.

The advantage of HD wallets is that it can give you numerous addresses and increase your privacy, not your security.


A cold wallet without 2FA is much more secure than a hot 2FA wallet.

Even if your wallet is 2FA, there's still the chance that your seed phrase is compromised and your fund is stolen without any need to 2FA code. You should always generate and keep the seed phrase (or your private keys) offline.
With 2FA, you also have to pay additional fee to trustedcoin.
Also note that 2FA is useless if you install the authenticator application on the same device as your wallet.

Do any of the addresses you posted before come from that blockchain wallet?
If yes, try to remember the password or brute-force it. Then you will be able to sign a message and recover your account.
If no, even if you find the password associated with your blockchain wallet, it can't help you recover your bitcointalk account.

You need to know how a bitcoin wallet works.
Your bitcoin are on the blockchain, not on your wallet. Your wallet only include your keys and use them for making transactions. All your keys (private keys, public keys and addresses) are all derived from your seed phrase.
When you export your seed phrase from a wallet and import it into another wallet, you actually move your keys to a new wallet and use the new tool which does the same thing. In this case you don't make any transaction. The balance that is shown in your old wallet can be seen on your new wallet too.


Yes.

Dave is the owner of walletrecoveryservices and has an account here on the forum.
walletrecoveryservices can be helpful for brute-forcing a password (if it's weak or you know a part of it) or the seed phrase (if you know a part of it).
OP's case seems to be different. No one can recover the fund sent to a scammer.

Correct.
You can have control over the fee when you make a transaction yourself.

As I said in my previous post, the fee you pay when buying bitcoin varies from one service to another. It's usually a percentage of the total amount of bitcoin you buy.

For making any bitcoin transaction, you have to pay the network fee.
If you import your wallet from one wallet to another one, you don't make any transaction and you don't pay any fee.

Third parties like moonpay or any other service usually charge you fee when trading bitcoin with fiat. It varies from one service to another service.
I haven't ever used moonpay and I don't know how much fee they charge you.

The other fee is the fee you pay for making a transaction. That's called transaction fee or network fee.
Note that bluewallet or other non-custodial wallets don't charge you any fee for the transactions you make and all the fee is paid to miners.

The transaction fee depends on following factors.

1. How fast you want you transaction to be confirmed
2. The network state
3. Number of inputs and outputs.
4. Addresses type.


The minimum fee rate you can use for a transaction is 1 sat/vbyte. Therefore, the minimum fee you can pay depends on number of inputs and outputs and addresses type.
Note that with paying the minimum transaction fee, there's a probability that your transaction takes a very long time to be confirmed.

Assuming that you have received all the fund in a single transaction and you want to spend all the fund to a single address, your transaction has 1 input and 1 output.

If your address is legacy (addresses that start with 1), the transaction size would be around 230 vbyte and the minimum fee would be around 230 satoshi.
If your address is nested segwit (addresses that start with 3)*, the transaction size would be around 160 vbyte and  the minimum fee would be around 160 satoshi.
If your address is native segwit addresses that start with bc1), the transaction size would be around 140 vbyte and the minimum fee would be around 140 satoshi.

Note that if your transaction includes more inputs or more outputs, it will be larger in size and you have to pay a higher transaction fee.


* Not all address that start with 3 are nested segwit.

You didn't make any profit.
They only showed you a fake number as your balance. In fact, you didn't have any bitcoin.

Any service asking you to make a deposit to be able to withdraw the fund is a scam.
Don't waste more money and your time on that website.

I am pretty sure the fund you deposited is much more than that 200 dollars.
And note that even if such services give you some money, they are still scam. That's how ponzi schemes work.  

If someone has more than 51% of the total hash rate, they are even able to reverse transactions with so many confirmations. Note that this is just in theory and it's very very unlikely that someone can perform such an attack.

Let's say the latest block that has been mined is block number 1000 and the attacker wants to remove/change a transaction from block number 950.
The attacker has 60% of the total hashrate. The attacker mines the block number 950 while the other miners are trying to mine block number 1001.
With the 60% of the total hashrate, the attacker is able to mine the blocks at a higher rate.
After some time, the attacker's chain will become longer than the chain mined by honest miners and becomes the main chain.

Again, this is only in theory and it's not practical.

That doesn't seem to be the problem.
According to the Armory log that has been posted in the OP, 531708 blocks were scanned successfully.
If prune mode was enabled in bitcoin core, those blocks data wouldn't be available and Armory wouldn't be able to scan any block.