What wallet are you using? The transaction is confirmed, so the issue is with your wallet software.

This issue should be fixed now.

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Done.

As I said earlier, there is no such thing as a "Bitcoin" that is saved. What happens is that when you receive a Bitcoin, you are actually receiving an output of a transaction. That transaction output is stored in the blockchain (it is part of a transaction included in the blockchain). The output requires a valid signature from the private key which maps to your address. Therefore what you need to keep safe is your private key, and that is what goes in the offline wallet and never touches the internet. Your offline wallet has no idea what outputs belong to you, nor does it need to know that.

When you create an offline wallet, you also create watch-only wallet. This watch-only wallet only contains the public keys and the addresses so that the watch-only wallet can be online to watch for any transactions that pertain to you. You use that online watch-only wallet to watch for transaction outputs that belong to you and when you want to spend, it builds an unsigned transaction which you must take to your offline machine to sign with the private keys. Then once it is signed, you take the signed transaction back to the online machine and broadcast it.

Yes.

Yes

No. This is a bad idea. Many people keep their Bitcoin in long term cold storage. There is no way to differentiate between those who are keeping Bitcoin in long term cold storage and those who have lost their Bitcoin. Furthermore, this would mean that coins would be confiscated and there would have to be some sort of central authority determining such recycling time which goes against Bitcoin.

This is an issue on my server. It seems that it is unable to connect to Bitcointalk as the connection keeps timing out. My server may have been IP banned by the forum accidentally.

You have to download the software on an online computer, verify the software, move it to a USB drive, and then install the software from the USB drive to your offline computer.

No. You do not ever need to be online to create Bitcoin addresses. There is no need to create an account anywhere, you don't need to do that.

There is no such thing as a Bitcoin that is saved. All that you need are the private keys.

No. That defeats the purpose of an offline wallet.

Desktop wallet software means that the people who made the software have absolutely no control over your Bitcoin.

You need the private keys, but with HD (Heirarchical Deterministic) wallets, you have some sort of master private key from which all of your private keys are derived from. That master private key can take the form of a seed mnemonic.

So long as there is software that supports that type of mnemonic and the same derivation process, then yes.

Depends on your use case. If you want privacy when spending, then you should use Armory. If you want ease of use, then Electrum. Electrum supports the BIP 32 HD Wallet standard whilst Armory does not (it still uses an HD wallet though).

Miners do not determine consensus. They can add all the blocks that they want to the blockchain that don't follow consensus and no one has to go with those new rules. That miner will be forked off of the network by all of the full nodes who follow different consensus rules and reject that miner's blocks.

Miners are still full nodes. They are full nodes that do something extra and get paid for that something extra.

Log files please.

"Official" help is right here on this forum. There is only one full time Armory developer and he does not have the time nor resources to set up any other "official" help channel for tech support. Your help will come from both him and a few others here who volunteer contributions to Armory or are experienced and know Armory fairly well.

Miners are a subset of nodes as all miners must be running a full node in order to mine (at least to mine properly). The nodes are what determine consensus as all nodes must agree to the same rules otherwise the nodes will fork off of the network.

Miners can add blocks to the blockchain so long as every other node on the network agrees that their block fits the consensus rules and accepts it.

Well there's your problem. Armory no longer supports 32-bit OSes, especially for online wallets (wallets connected to the network). Both Armory and Bitcoin Core are very resource intensive and 32 bit limits that so it is more likely to fail. Furthermore no one actually tests both Armory and Bitcoin Core on 32-bit OSes and most modern machines use 64-bit so 32-bit is rather obsolete.

No, you cannot share the datadir with multiple instances of Bitcoin Core. It will not allow you as the first instance will put a lock (lock file indicating usage) onto the datadir.

You will need to start Bitcoin Core with the upgrade wallet option after you copy the wallet.dat file to the data directory.

You have to use it through the command line. You cannot just double click the exe file.

Try running Bitcoin Core separately. Start Armory and uncheck the "let Armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" checkbox. Then stop Armory. Then start Bitcoin Core and then start Armory.

Use the latest version of Armory, 0.95.1, which can be downloaded from https://btcarmory.com/0.95.1-release/.

Not particularly. IIRC goatpig does not have a mac to do testing with. There is really only one person who contributes mac stuff for Armory.

AFAIK, Armory does work on Macs. It could be an issue with mac versions, I don't remember what version Armory was last tested on.

Nothing can be done. You did not actually receive any Bitcoin because it was double spent by this transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/cb2c291a8c083882c3a0eb2f43bf20c1cdba9e771ac6bb952fc200d4b274b679 That transaction is already confirmed so your transaction can never confirm. This is because both transactions spend the same Bitcoin, so only one of those transactions can confirm. Nothing can be done to make your transaction confirm.

In order for your transaction to stop appearing in your wallet, you need to find out who is rebroadcasting it and tell them to stop.

No service ever goes unhacked or not shutdown. Blockchain.info will definitely get hacked at some point and all of the (hopefully) encrypted wallet files will be stolen.

That is because you are spending from this transaction which is unconfirmed. The transactions spending from this cannot confirm until this one confirms.

Someone (presumably the sender of the transaction), is constantly rebroadcasting it so it reappears in the mempools of nodes, which includes blockchain.info's node. Their node policy forgets about it eventually, but is then reminded of it by the rebroadcast.

Blockchain.info cannot help you. You have to figure out why that transaction is not confirming first before anything can be done about it. My guess is that the transactions was double spent so it cannot ever confirm.

Open the file. Copy and paste the contents to a new paste on http://pastebin.com/. Post the link to that paste here.