I know this will sound harsh: Leave the GPUs to the Gamers, Gaming industry and Graphic Artists;
Let them use the "Graphic Processing Unit" for computing "graphics" at a reasonable price.

Apparently, it's foreseeable that major digital currency's algorithm battle against ASIC manufacturers will either "let it go" or keep updated until one surrender which is will not be the case for those companies (there will always be another compatible shitcoin that will not fork).
Not ASIC manufacturer's defeat, not the coin hodlers either, but surely the GPU miners will be the most affected.

And the facts: Mostly all not-shitcoins can only be mined using ASICs or others are actively updated against ASICs and not GPU-optimized. Not centralized either, both are publicly available and the price between a single GPU and an ASIC isn't that high.
It's a Win-win for Bitmain, man this Chinese company needs to pay more taxes.

Overall, less GPU miners is for the greater good (just do the math)
In the future, most major coins will only be mineable using ASICs.
Believe me, I'm from the future  

Any solid proof to support this claim?

Shifting and shutting-down miners are 100% fact though (look at the graph in the OP, whoa, it dropped soo much w/ sarcasm), but this shouldn't affect the price that much.
This is totally something like FUD-related dip.

Vitalik must have realized the issue with GPU producers and the damages it has been causing to the gaming industry.
At least, one less GPU-dependent coin can help the affected industry(ies).
Also, as observed on Monero, changing or innovating new algorithm more often (due to ASICs manufacturer's marketing plan) can be a pain in the ass for their developers.

• Looks better without a background
• Or Personalized

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...You're welcome.

Logitech owes you one for your free advertising (lol)

The "receive" tab isn't really necessary to receive the bitcoins from the particular transaction, it's only for reference and label/description.
did they linked a url of a blockexplorer showing the transaction?

The issue can be non-synchronized client, does the circle on the lower-right corner of your client colored red or green?
If red, it's disconnected and obviously the issue.

Blockchain.info's Mnemonic phrase isn't an actual Bitcoin Seed, it is only usable as a backup using the site's UI or compatible APIs.
If you didn't heard the news, the sites domain changed into blockchain.com but still accessible using the old domain name.

If you wanted to recover the old wallet, you just have to restore it to their site using the "forgot-password button" for old wallet backups: https://login.blockchain.com/wallet/forgot-password
The page displays: "If you have a legacy wallet recovery mnemonic saved enter it below to view the password and login link."
You should be able to restore your wallet from there.

Aaaaaand using "Pikachu" as an avatar will make you recognizable as a 12th-grader or a 30-year old geek, peace man.

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Could be a Mini Private key, starts with S and consists of 30 characters, he just added random symbols for security purposes.
From SC@jYMc/?1{=maGJ/*********(o<$x1!,'**********/W:,0wh%TwVxbq6X.]/#@GsA53, something like SCjYMc1maGJ**ox1**WhTwVxbq6XGsA53 can be extracted.

@andromeda46 does this ring a bell?

Or you're just drunk when you created that email.

Lol no, heard the news?

Although news and articles are the main Pump and Dump tools, this time it's a combination of P&D and "natural fear".
The news that I'm talking about is the Ethereum's upcoming mining reward reduction (google it if you want).
What they "fear" is the whole Ethereum economy will landslide after the implementation, which will never happen IMO.

So, I would say, this is not totally a Pump and Dump and if you're looking for profit, this is the best opportunity you have to stash ETH before it recovers in the next few months.

Your main (standard) electrum wallet is fine as long as it hasn't been compromised.
Creating another standard wallet is fine too, but don't sweep them in your imported wallet.

The reason for not-using that imported wallet is: the private keys of the addresses that you've imported came from another source.
Even from a reputable source (Chipmixer), the only user who must have the control over (who have seen) the private key(s) must exclusively be you.

By doing "import private keys", you're just including the address & prv key pair to your wallet, the source still have access to the prv key.
By "Sweeping" it, Electrum will make a transaction using all the tx inputs from the address pairs of that prv key, it will discard that key later, the balance will be transferred to your own (addresses) wallet, minus the transaction fee.

Are you using Windows?
Try to increase the Virtual Ram (Page file) to a higher value or 32GB, then restart your PC.

If you don't know how: Open searchbox/cortana, search for "advanced system settings" click "Settings..." under Performance.
Click Advanced tab and click "Change..." under Virtual Memory, uncheck "Automatically change paging file size for all drives" then, activate "Custom Size" put your desired value, press 'ok' then restart when prompted.

Hey, understand what Abdussamad said, importing the keys doesn't mean that's its exclusively in your control.
Either do what he said, make another wallet and send all your funds there or Sweep the keys, don't just import them.

For the guy who left the note "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks", there's only one reason why:
He doesn't care about the price of his possession but its value.
(or he've lost his first node because a random computer technician formatted and installed a new Windows OS to his computer because its getting "slower")

Why is this thread still active?  

I know it's kind of late, but this seems interesting enough for me to investigate.
I'll just leave it here, it must be "Option Five: Another unknown devil practice" or Three.

Based on the data from blocks converted into "words", you'll see that Antpool have more than ten(10) variants or extensions
that could possibly be another "branches".

Since their total hashrate is so high compared to the competitors, dividing it to ten or twenty could yield higher chance to hit more blocks than running a single powerhouse.
We don't know what they're thinking but it seemed that doing this was more favorable to them in terms of "mining lottery" with few participant slots (let's say 100), they are taking 40 of those spots; the more tickets, the more chances of winning.
Honestly, this looks nonsensical but if any the competitors doesn't have at least 20% of the total hashpower and you have 10 x 2%, there's a greater chance that you will get the price than merging them in a single miner like your competitor.

Not only Antpool, ViaBTC seemed doing the same trend as you can see above.

Those were extracted from blocks sometime around August.

Last time, they've gone too far, they did enlist Bitcoin Cash as "Bitcoin (BCH)" and Bitcoin as "Bitcoin Core (BTC)" in that site.
The previous replies know what they're saying and stay away from that site if you're a total newbie.
If you know which is which and quite knowledgeable on digital currencies, you can safely buy Bitcoins there.

But if you're serious on buying bitcoins, why don't you open a "Buying" thread in the Marketplace board (Currency Exchange) and wait for replies and offers.
Just remember to review the user's trust rating before closing the deal.

Bitcoin does that normally but no one complains, the Block reward halves in every 210,000 blocks.
From 50BTC to 25BTC (from start to early stages) and the recently 12.5BTC reward didn't have a lot of "disinterest" issues to the miners.

However, Bitcoin miners are mostly ASIC farms versus Ethereum is mostly consists of GPU mining pools.
We'll see after the implementation but in my opinion, this reward reduction will not cause any major downside to the Ethereum community.
ETH miners will simply... 'disgusted' but will never quit.

I'm afraid that this isn't Bitcoin-related in terms of technical support.
Usually, those hackers and are just using Bitcoins as the "ransom money" because it's widely used and with the help of "mixing services", transactions could become anonymous.
The ransomware malware and viruses however, aren't directly linked to Bitcoin's protocols.

I'd suggest to shut it down (don't do anything) until you get someone who's knowledgeable on this (there's a couple of OS-related automated backups that can undo this that can be affected by the virus/malware if stayed active).
Most users here wont be able to help you with your issue, you really need to consult a good Computer Technician for this.

The only wallet that I know that's getting errors with OLD "Backup Phrase" (not SEED), showing "non-spendable" than "watch-only";
and requesting private keys in every send attempts than not displaying the send button... is:
Blockchain.com's (not a real) wallet.

I'm 70% sure that it's blockchain.info's (not ) wallet.
Luckily, they have a sublink that enables the users with old recovery backup phrase to restore into a new wallet.
Here it is: https://login.blockchain.com/wallet/forgot-password (the same link if you forget your password, but it accepts old seeds).

Going to the nearest (& reputable) computer repair center is way more cheaper and safer than paying that amount or asking someone from the net.
Unless the PC is on the technician's hands, you'll get more inconsistencies than results.

Alternatively, just wipe it out.
If you've lost your wallets, an offline backup or written seed & private keys are good enough to decide a "zero-fill" the disk.
Is there something worth recovering from that PC that's keeping you from wiping the disk or are you looking for a pure "back at you" attempt?

I dunno, but this will surely be moved to Bitcoin discussion after a while.

On-topic: Why don't you ask him instead: satoshi? What will be the response?
You see, this kind of topic are only designed to be a spam-fest thread, there's no point on "asking" these types of questions.
Finding speculations and articles is much more reasonable, IMO.

As far as I know, there's locked thread with the same topic somewhere in the Bitcoin Discussion board.
If I came across it, I'll update this reply with the link.

You can try https://bitcoinstrings.com/, but it's totally converted to text and the blocks' data aren't displayed.
OP_return data were translated too, just ignore them or highlight all the "Mined by" lines then search from other source about which blocks are included in that particular blkXXXXX.dat number.
Sort it out, and you might find what you need.

However, the site's updates were not that frequent (about daily to four times a week)