You're gravely mistaken if you think that this is an exclusive feature of the dollar. It can happen to every currency. You still don't answer to my question, though. You said that you can multiply your dollars, but this doesn't answer on why you would trade your car with some pieces of paper.

Why will you give your car for a million dollars in cash? Because people accept it as a currency. Because, you'll afterwards go to another person who's willing to trade their goods for your dollars. Simple economics where societies develop mediums of exchange.

Same happens with Bitcoin. It meets the conditions to be considered currency. It was designed by humans only for that purpose. What's so hard to understand about that?

But, you're not supposed to look your screen. You're supposed to use it as a currency. Haven't you yet acknowledged that this is the only purpose of its existence? It doesn't have any intrinsic value. It's only meant to be traded.

You can't make jewelry out of it. You can't live in it. It doesn't represent a fraction of a company. But, if two individuals agree that Bitcoin is money, then it instantly gains monetary value. And it does look like money! It's divisible, portable, durable, easily verifiable and transferrable.

I'm trying to look things the way you do and I think you're just closed-minded.

Without explanations, discipline and willingness to learn, you may not be able to understand the utilization.  

Everything's a number nowadays. What's the difference with Bitcoin: This number can't be censored by anyone. Everyone is forced to accept it's true. This feature is what makes it electronic cash. If you fail to understand this fact, you justifiably complain that there's nothing legitimate behind it.

Let's see what happens when something like Bitcoin becomes popular:

• CoinJoin: Bitcoin privacy for the real world
• Lightning Network: Scalable, Instant Bitcoin/Blockchain Transactions
• Taproot proposal
• 2022 List Bitcoin Mixers Bitcoin Tumblers Websites

As for what was talked-about most back then, I currently observe a lot of talk about privacy; https://ninjastic.space/search?board=6&title=privacy

You mean to trade them for fiat in a centralized exchange? Sure, but if that's not the case, my lightning deposits are quite private; they stay between me and the merchant.

This code is executed when you want to mine the genesis block. The easiest way to generate a public key is by going to this page. It's not the best way, but it's the easiest. For someone like you who just wants to see it working, it's fine.

I honestly don't know what's this genesis block generator you've brought me. I didn't give you any python scripts. I told you to either run the genesis.exe or build the genesis.c. No, it's not normal to take you 24 hours for a block with difficulty=1.

Don't you have to trust that all these are paid invoices? Yes, a user could provide an invoice you haven't included, which I don't see it ever happening, but anyway: How can the viewers verify that the invoices have been properly paid?

You can neither be sure even with a Bitcoin address. You can't know if the administrator hasn't changed the donation addresses before you visit the website for the first time. Some don't even have a unique one, but generate new for each visitor which is how things should work.

I really don't find a reason to lie. You're instantly becoming unlikeable if you lie for your own charity.

Which means... what? The only thing I can conclude is that Satoshi had a lot more computational power than imagined, and was searching for a block with these specific details you've covered for a reason.

You mean if passphrase comes with BIP39 why only few wallets support it? Would you mind telling us which wallets do support BIP39, but they don't have the passphrase option?

No, it's not unless we have a different understanding of what's the same Bitcoin. There's no Bitcoin without decentralization. Bitcoin was created to defend the user who's resented by a central point of failure. You said it yourself;
I know that my statement was a little vague, but what I meant is that if you could have the Bitcoin you have today, emphasizing the decentralization in coin distribution, then it'd be better morally-wise. But, you can't. You can only have Bitcoin with Proof of Work.

OP also sent me a PM and of course, I got what NeuroticFish got too. The same 14Yjou address with no money. @Bennas, the fact that you've written a valid private key (in Wallet Import Format) shows me that you've written it down correctly. However, this doesn't prove that it corresponds to the address you used those days. Maybe you noted down the private key of an address that was in your wallet, but not used. There's also a very small chance you miswrote a character and it was considered valid, which I don't want to believe it's the case.

You need to find the wallet file from the computer you had Bitcoin Core installed. The fault is on you regardless of how properly you think you handled it.

Highlighting the “same”.

No, that's what I was trying to tell you here:

There can't be a final transaction, because it has to be valid, but in order to be valid it has to contain a reference to a transaction which makes it non-final.

Have you tried importing the same private key in another computer?

If you had downloaded a popular open-source calculator, stated that you verified the binaries and got 3 when you added 1 to 1, then what's more likely? For you to have misunderstood the problem or for the developers to have left a backdoor? I'm just telling you what's much more likely.

I'll send you a private key (with no funds) and you will record me a video where you import that key and get a watch-only wallet.

It also warns you to not send sensitive messages and there's a reason for that. Besides o_e_l_e_o and Bennas the content may be readable from administrators and email providers. Why have we reached the point where the OP transfers private keys?

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This has abruptly started to sound very weird. I have a sneaking suspicion that there's something rather malicious with this case. I repeat: If you imported a private key IT CANNOT HAVE RETURNED YOU A WATCH-ONLY WALLET.

Would you mind if I sent you a private key and recorded the procedure?

Her keys, her coins, but if she can only publish one transaction, then as said above, the currency has no utility.

This is really debatable. Why would it be bad to validate UTXOs from thin air? It sounds fascinating; it's just the implementations bad. For example, in PoS, there's full hierarchy and a million other disadvantages that I won't mention. There aren't other similar mechanisms to PoS.

But, having the same Bitcoin without needing energy? Hell yeah.

But, the wallet is watch-only?

What's the message it returns you? Could we have a screenshot from the GUI?

This can't be happening to anyone. Let me take your steps with 8 random private keys.

So you have these keys in a notepad, I assume, just like that:

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This is definitely not Electrum's fault. I don't know what's going on, but if he has verified the signature of the software it doesn't have to do with it.

Honestly, no, but you shouldn't give up. The more you talk about it, the more your chances to recover them.

For how many addresses are we talking about?

This doesn't make sense. Why should private keys regenerate wallets? Do you mean they don't give the same addresses once imported to another wallet?

There are lots of things that I can't explain such as:

• Why did it take so long to sync?
• Why did it return you a watch-only wallet if you imported private keys?

There's probably something done wrong during the importation as I've never seen this case before. If you're importing valid private keys in the correct format, such as:

You should be getting a non-watch-only wallet.

Note that if your private key starts with K, then these are compressed addresses and since your time period was 2011-2015, those addresses should be starting with 1. Blockchain dot com or Exodus may return you addresses that either start with 3 or bc1.

What you're looking is called a legacy address. Again, those that start with 1. Don't mess with wallet software that don't have the option of importing legacy addresses, it's a waste of time.

Have you tried importing one private key at a time?

Good, stick with Electrum, it's more than fine.

Note sure that I understand what you're saying. 1yyy would always be generated if you had the private key which was used to calculate it; in this case, 5yyyy. The order doesn't matter if you're just pasting them as WIF.