Another big possibility is: it could be an investigation attempt (by police or private) to find the culprit.
I've seen multiple thread reports regarding that Electrum hacking incident and been contacted via PM with replies to my post(s). One particular person said that police had successfully uncover some leads using the info.
Apparently, doing such thing can possibly uncover most of the hacker's addresses and check where the funds are stored.

An attack or not, I'm pretty sure that it was a deanonymizing dust attack.

Don't know if these will help:

• electrumdev@gmail.com (displayed in Github so I guess that there's no problem pasting this here) based from ThomasV's GitHub Profile.
  
• Bitcointalk Account: ThomasV
  
• Electrum Twitter page.
  
• Electrum Page's registration address:

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Easy, you just need to know the xpub key of all the cosigners to create a watch-only multisig wallet.
XPUB or Master Public Key starts with "xpub";
example: xpub661MyMwAqRbcGuKyz9sJMYEKaJfkL9izJkh7jHakA9ZEEwYgmXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX.

Here are the steps:

• 1. New/Restore->Select "Multi-signature Wallet"
• 2. Pick the number of cosigners and required signature(s) based on the main wallet (must be the same)
• 3. Select "use Master Key"
• 4. Paste Cosigner1's xpub key (Master Public Key) click next, then next again.
• 5. Select "Enter Cosigner key" and paste the xpub of the the second cosigner.

Continue steps depending on the number of consignees.

Just test it with one card installed in that problematic PCI-e slot.
If it didn't work either, chances that it isn't the BIOS nor the OS is high, one busted/defective PCI-e slot isn't really news.

BTW, you'll only needing the SLI bridge if you're using the board for Gaming and other Graphic-intensive Applications.

Hey, look at this thread from the Meta Board (by theymos himself): grin is now accepted for forum payments

If you read the post, you'll understand that our admin endorses it and apparently, there's a really high chance that it will be successful after a few months of liquidity (since there's only a few exchange had listed Grin).
As far as I know, there's one (can't say successful) coin that was endorsed by him that was pumped a lot and made some millionaires.
This will surely be the case to Grin on the first few months/year of release, but will not reach as high as Bitcoin's price due to its design (flaws?).

Personally, it's worth the time and money to mine a few before everyone join the inevitable bandwagon hype.

Right, and if you're into trading.... you know that "overhyped" is a very good sign.

I just need to mention that there's a short notice on electrum.org download page stating:

And from the Important Announcement Board since the very first hour of the incident:
With those (together with the fact that it is an open-source project), we can assume that any incidents involving that particular hack can't be blamed to Electrum's developers.

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You can always turn to the authorities (Police) and report the incident, same as this guy who had his Electrum-stored Bitcoins (and Altcoins) stolen.
The chance to retrieve your coins might be slim but it's better than chasing your tail.

These so called "Hacks" were suspiciously smelling like a scapegoat for scammers nowadays.

Just look at it; say, if you declare that your exchange got hacked, users may be neutral or patient to retrieve their funds.
While there must be few who will surely get impatient, in the end, there will be small to medium amount of funds that will be neglected or will expire past the deadline/closing.

Not saying that this was the case here, just a (strong) hunch towards these recent hacking-incidents-mania.

Although not recommended, you can use new Exchange with DEMO trading. Using that feature, you'll get fake balance for every available coin upon registration.
What's the difference with a bot? You'll be trading with real people and real-time prices, there's only one problem: there might be no liquidity at all.
It's up to you to find one since I'm not going to endorse any new exchange here (I'm sure that there are exchanges with DEMO).

Or you can pick low-value coin to easy access pairs like  DOGE-BTC and focus on that pair for the time being.
If you somewhat "got the hung of it" and gain confidence, you can now explore more pairs to experiment with.

Just take it slow, one step at a time.

Are you sure that you've restored it as a multisig wallet?

Example:

If it is a multisig address, Electrum's title bar should display "[2/3],[3/3],[2/2]" depending on the number of required signatures and cosigners.
If "standard" or "imported" it's not multisig.

Because, in my understanding, you only have one SEED and copay have the rest, you only got the the xpub of copay's SEEDs for view-only purposes  

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<Edit If you happen to have all the SEEDs>
This will happen when you choose "Use Master Key" and pasted just the xpub of the three cosigners.
What you need to do is to make Two(2) Electrum Wallets hodling each of the two seeds to be able to (2/3) sign a transaction.

It needs to be exactly 3 Cosigner and 2 Required Signature, changing the wallet's cosigner settings will generate a different set of address (I've tried it just now).

There's a noticeable trade-off in the site's design: One page alone (the very 1st page which should be introduced to newcomers) is surprisingly filled with compact & stupendous amount of contents that compromised the "smoothness" of the interface.
This could be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on your target readers community.

Accurately speaking, the homepage looks "cool" but cramped/crowded since almost all widgets and elements were already loaded simultaneously.
This might also be a problem with users with limited internet speed, low RAM or low/mid-end mobile/computers and will surely limit your prospective regular readers specially from some ASIAN countries (90% low/mid-end devices @ <5mbps download speed) which are one of the most internet-active community.

Lastly, I tried to check for errors and the result was alarmingly high (89 errors and counting....).

Some are caused by my AV's AdBlocker and other filters but most are errors from the "widgets" and I wont allot more time to sift through all the errors.

Regards.

Probably best if you can provide more information about this "randomly generated" address like:

• From where or what kind wallet is it from.
• What method did you used to make it.

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By looking at blockexplorers, it seemed like that your address 1ZYCAZDis1rAZpgttUh3ViQcpJokraH3F have been used already a few times since 2017.

Luckily, there's no incoming funds to that address as of now.
Just create a new wallet and inform your transaction/deal partner to change your address right away!

Do you mean, "Heat Sink Fan" and "Heat Sink"? Usually, it's just abbreviated as HSF.
"cooler master EVO? thermaltake?" - those are brand names of the high-end PC-parts manufacturers.

The stock HSF definitely wont fit, but..
Those branded HSF have a "universal mounts" to fit in any CPU socket, but in most cases, only one type can fit in the designated Motherboard Types (Depending on the CPU Socket).
However, the mounting holes might not match the dimensions of that ASIC's board; the height of the Heat Sink can also be an issue, the gap between the metal plate of the HS and the Processor should be a few micrometers (to be filled by thermal paste) to be efficient.

Just order a new replacement of those crap...... (lol) "original" fans.

If this was accurate, you can contact these Exchanges (not customer service) for their cooperation. Kraken may be impossible but Binance might answer you.
An Email containing complete info on your ownership of the addresses' funds, Some personal info and/or Clearance together with a detailed explanation of your statement.

Why? Given that you have the Full Proof of ownership and you can proove that you're not the one who moved the funds,
Exchanges like Binance requires KYC policy to their users and they have the power to point you to any leads to the Culprit.
This can get you to a real person which can be questioned for more leads.
And even if it was withdrawn to a "Mixing" address (unless they tolerate crimes), you can also contact the service provider to provide the final address where the funds (2btc from Binance?) are being held.

But it's been quite long since the hacking incident, I can only assume that it was already laundered as "investments" to micro-earning sites or loans.

Before trying to start over again with these painstaking procedures,
can you tell us what mobile wallet was it and if you have a backup of the SEED of your wallet?
Because mostly all mobile wallets are HD like Electrum and can be restored using the SEED Phrase (8, 12 or more set of words).
If you have it, simply reinstall the wallet and select the appropriate options for restoring wallet via SEED.

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AFAIK, if he successfully backed-up or restored the full image of the bootloader and the System Files: ROM (as they call it), he can use it to fully restore the Data directory since the "Internal SD card" was included in it (ROM).
But by looking at the left side of the image, it seems like there were problems in the process.

I found one from Amazon, pretty same as r1s2g3's: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0779HG5JL/ref=twister_B0779LPV8J


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It clearly states that the data was based on Local Bitcoins which was first introduced to the top countries, later to the rest.
Japan however, rarely uses Local Bitcoins to trade just like other Asian country (except China that has a huge population), trades in Exchange and Payment Processor internal trades are different story however.

Other possible reasons are: [1] there have been a more store/establishment-accepted digital coin in circulation (Monac***) in the country and Bitcoin is just one of their options.
[2] Yen costs a lot less than other Asian Counties and a way less in comparison to Dollars or Euro; to compete with trades done by other local fiat currencies, each Japanese LocalBitcoins user should spend more Yen to match the spent $ of just one American State.
[3] Most of them (including rest of Asia) are using Third-party wallet to send and Exchange to trade.
etc.

This board is quite fine as long as it's Altcoin Mining-related.
Scroll-down to the bottom of this page, look at the left corner and there should be a "move topic | lock topic" buttons there.

If you're also into trading, it doesn't matter if the coin has sick or stupid concept as long as it's not an obvious straight scam, you can grab/mine it as long as your rig(s) have good compatibility to its algorithm. The trick is to "join the hype before it build up" then sell at the right time like most traders do.
But if sites like whattomine suggests you that it's not recommended to mine the particular coin using your specs, it would probably be best to buy the the (cheap) coins than trying to mine them at low efficiency.
There are few exceptions, like if the coin has just released and the difficulty is still pretty low.

The auto-generated list was good with some exceptions: Posts that contain a bitcoin address(es) like this were also included.

That said, please exclude this in the list (from the link above):

In my observation, I think that there was a misunderstanding here.

From the original thread, It seems like that the "very rich guys from Serbia" quote is based from the other party's depiction of the card manufacturers who insisted on not giving a refund.
And his statement: "can find you and make......" was his response to the question with same meaning: "Why don't you report it yourself, can't show your face to the public?" making the quoted part not pertaining to himself.

Thus, it isn't a threat.

Disclaimer: That's what I saw after shortly reading the text battle, I could be wrong.

I'm pretty sure that any clever miners wont use his mining rigs as a (spendable) wallet.
If there's a real threat, it will be his privacy.

unless if there's something in the code/file.