First rule: Anything named after bitcoin other than Bitcoin is a pump&dump coin. But here's the good part, most of them are useful for day traders and miners since it will surely be pumped after a while as long as it has a huge user base and just got started.

Second: When the site was deliberately named after another, it is a 100% red flag. Even though it has a community and fairly low price, there's no assurance that it is legit. Example is Bitconnect, it has a huge price & large community but it was a scam all along.

Chances that it is a scam is high, if you have a good GPU with high Memory Bandwidth, why don't you mine Grin instead (It looks like it was endorsed by theymos). That alone lured me into Grin.

217 views but only 38 voted... Still not enough votes to represent 0.1% of the users (at least here in speculation board).

There's nothing new at the moment, no updates, no "issues" and obviously,
there are no Hype-drivers for the overall crypto price (Bitcoin as the reference price) for that to be the bottom.
Wall Observer seemed inclined to lower price-range too.

BTW, I voted for "No".

It does said "copy the contents":
The contents aren't originally inside of a folder (except for bin), I think the issue was your unzip app or the way you've unzipped it.
There are options like: "unzip to <zip file name>" and "unzip here", if you choose the first, it will make a folder and extract the contents inside it (your case); if you've chosen the latter, it will be extracted as the original position of the files (5/4 files and a bin folder).

But in behalf of half-witted newbies, thanks for the comprehensive guide

Just because of there's something new, BNB gained 2.17% within 24hrs.... doesn't look unusual to me.
How is this affected by the newly enabled debit/credit card deposit? Can someone shed some light here.

Wait, I'll guess... [1] Do the clients actually buy BNB but under the hood then it will be traded into the coin of their choice? If that's the case, higher 24hr-gain isn't that far-fetched. [2] Or their BNB coin suddenly became "fancy" in the eyes of traders because there's something new, that's kinda stupid and the main reason that crypto trading became too speculation-based.

For me, he clearly stated that he deleted the executable, the fact that he said "that wallet" and "downloaded an updated one" means it's the fake Electrum version.

Aside from that, I'm pretty sure that Electrum always changes the server in every relaunch if your wallet is configured to "choose automatically" (default) and the chance that it will select the "bad server" is pretty slim. So I'd say, there's something fishy going on his side.
Plus, aside from him, there's no one else here who experienced unsendable bitcoins due to a "bad server", pretty much an isolated case.

If changing server didn't work, he can try my advice.

Try not to use the wallet file that the Fake Electrum has generated.
Instead, restore it to the Original version via SEED. You may also needed to scan the whole computer for possible malware installed by the fake version if there's any.

The reason for this is: even the real Electrum does a small backward-incompatibility issue to the wallet file after changing the version (like v3.3.3 to older versions). The Fake version also has write access to your files and must have tinkered your wallet file somehow.

Please read the replies before replying, this issue was already resolved, and it's an outdated python version:

Why don't users lock their own thread (or/and edit the title) once it was resolved.... 

Animated PNG (apng, but has an extension of .png) is the new "in" now and it's more efficient in terms of file size over quality.
This animated png file for example has 60 frames but the file size is only 209kb:
(209kb)
*The image is free for personal use (made by me).
(90kb LQ)

For avatars, a 30-frame image (or 60-frame "jagged") can be made into a <100kb png file which is roughly >double for gifs.

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Who uses Internet Explorer anyways; Personally, I only used it once to install Chrome in my Windows PC.

The idea is good but using it as a forum badge will be a serious legal issue unless you can get a copyright licence from Nintendo™.
A pacman-look-alike yellow thing can be a good replacement though.
(Doubt it, it's impossible to alter a yellow circle with a 45° slice )

Read this:

One character is one byte & one byte is 8 bits alright, but it will make him more puzzled by that explanation.
1HEX (00 to FF)=8bits (00000000 to 11111111)=1byte; 1HEX=1Byte.

Where it gone wrong is how the text editor "counts" HEX.
If it was a text editor (example for hex, raw tx), it reads each of the characters as "characters" which is one byte each.

Now, RPC call counts HEX as "HEX" thus each of the two characters were counted as one byte.
That why it's exactly half of the size counted by a text editor like "notepad".

Since this was added to the latest version: "Automatically check for software updates"
We can assume that the message was only for the fist time opening of v.3.3.3 to enable the option.

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Server-side error message that was used by the hacker(s) was now disabled too (#4968), thus not another hack.
(funny how users react to pop-up messages from Electrum)

Remember this trick that could display the title of the deleted/ignored thread of the particular merited post?

• Go to your merit page, the url will display as: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=#
  
• Delete ";u######" (account number)
  
• Or just use this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit

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And the ignored/deleted thread's title should be correctly displayed, and hopefully, it will ring a bell.

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Edit, I've tried to ignore Beginners&Help board and some of my sent sMerits became Off-limits too.
And this trick still works!

Or they've just outsourced a Graphics Artist just like everyone else;
I mean it's not a bad thing but IMO, in majority, the eyes of the public doesn't like quirky display of characters.
Colors are in a different criteria though.

Yes they do:
I think, they are trying to achieve what "Stake" (gambling site) had done, it's a gambling site but the design is colorful, cute & rounded. High rollers don't mind it and young adults got hooked from it (the quirkiness).
It may work on an Exchange and hopefully, it wouldn't scare away millions of their 4,000,000 clients.

A Brand is basically the "look" including the name, so... it was a rebrand although they didn't changed it.

Some examples of FPGAs are FPGA mining cards which is mainly used for mining and as far as I know LBC was optimized (if not the old versions, the latest) to use it efficiently.
On the other hand, Vanitygen is optimized for Processors while Oclvanitygen is optimized for GPUs, I don't know if it will run with FPGA either.

So the answer would be obvious.
But there are forks that have different tweaks supporting different type of devices (even FPGAs)

Be wary of PMs requesting the key/wallet.dat specially from negative trust members and newbies.

Here's some info regarding restoration/recovery that you can try yourself:
If it was named with ".dat" extension ex. wallet.dat, it could be from bitcoin core or older version (Bitcoin Qt).
Regardless of the wallet version, it should be able to run with the latest version (if not, old versions are listed here: bitcoin.org).

• After installation, copy the wallet.dat to your %appdata%/Bitcoin
• Run and open the wallet, click help, then debug window->console
• Type: walletpassphrase your-wallet-passphrase 300
• Type: dumpprivkey <your bitcoin address>
• Import or Sweep the key(s) to Electrum for faster access, instead of waiting for the wallet to sync (200gb of data+verification)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transferring_coins_from_Bitcoin-Qt_to_Electrum#Obtain_private_key.28s.29_from_Bitcoin-Qt

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If it was Electrum, it should be a file without an extension with a default name of wallet_1 or wallet_default (or your picked name).
Recovering it is a breeze as long as the passphrase is correct.
Download Electrum stand-alone: electrum.org/#download.
Open the exe, then browse to the location of the wallet file and open it.
Your Bitcoins should show up after syncing the block_header (5-20minutes).

*For Windows

Either A or B, an investigation to the UTXO and spent outputs could tell if a set of addresses belong to a single wallet, specially if the user has done multiple "consolidations" and/or reusing addresses.
If you really want to be private, use one input at a time (as much as possible), use change address and do not send all of the change (consolidate) to a single address within the wallet.

If you stop using Electrum today, there will be no more addresses for you
JK~ish, AFAIK you will not be able to use Electrum's (non-standard) SEED to Bitcoin Core or other Clients so, there is no other choice if you want to use it again but to restore it. Other choices?, Restoration by Importing the keys (to any client) will worsen the privacy issue.

Unless you're using coin control, your privacy is still at stake.
Anyways, you can manually select the server of your choice but I can't tell which is the most "trusted" among them.

Those badges are only for "cosmetic" purposes, more like 'copper membership' bought by a Legendary member.
I don't think that somebody will ever do that in order to display a fancy badge on his profile, unless it's paid or tied with trust rating.

Although, I can agree on implementing a point reduction formula/system for consecutive bad reports due to the fact that more and more users will probably report any posts regardless of the contents to look "cooler".

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Updated badge based from this:

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Now, SMP-forum-themed:

For small amounts that you plan to use frequently, a payment processor "wallet" is much more preferable.
But you can always rely on Electrum as a Hot Wallet for any peer-to-peer transactions.

As for backups, do you remember the SEED (12 set of random words) that Electrum advised you to copy during wallet creation? That's the most important backup that you have and it can be used to restore the wallet and control the funds of any address within it.
As the matter of fact, if you know the addresses of the particular wallet as long as you have the SEED or Private Key(s), you can even receive bitcoins even without any hardware (PC, Phone or HardwareWallet), AKA: Cold Storage.

Yes, but not entirely based to the internet speed.
Faster Disk I/O, CPU and Larger Ram all contributes to the speed of verification. It basically downloading data, writing it to the disk, reading and verifying the contents all at the same time, not totally download and write scenario.

It will temporarily stop to the last height before the internet/power loss, but it's resumable.

If it comes to Bitcoin's performance regarding speed of transaction, your "Deposit" was already "there" 24 Hours ago.
The problem is your client's synchronization which will take time depending on different (PC specs.) factors, that's why Armory isn't the best choice for newcomers and non-technical users.
The best move is to export the funded address' private key from Armory then import it to Electrum.

One quick FYI: Bitcoin is a decentralized network, meaning, there's no central authority, no central server or mediator in transactions, there's no one liable on any mishandling.
On the other hand, Armory is not officially a part of Bitcoin, it is just an open-source client just like Electrum, Mycelium, etc.

But just relax, as long as you have the ROOT Key, you still have full control of your funds.

If you want to contact the main Developer of Armory (for technical inquiries), here's the link to his profile: goatpig, Github Page contributors.