I don't use Trezor, but I find it unusual that the support is talking about importing public keys. I am just making a comparison and assumption that the Suite works in a similar fashion as Ledger Live. In that case, it wouldn't be possible to import public/private keys, or not?

For your own safety, can you tell us how you got in touch with the support? What site, platform, email are they using for the communication with you?

The iancoleman tool could help you getting the private key from the BCH address you mistakenly sent your Bitcoin to, but you shouldn't enter your seed into it! Besides the BTC in the wrong wallet, what else can be found on your Trezor protected with the current seed? One option would be to generate a new seed, move the remaining coins to wallets derived from the new seed, and use iancoleman to find the private key of your BCH address. After that, you import that private key into Electrum Cash and send the coins to a new address derived from the new seed. Don't do that yet though.

If we start getting paranoid about everything that can have Chinese backdoors, we shouldn't buy 90% of the things we own. That includes the monitor you will read this post on, the mouse you open the thread with, and the chair you are sitting in.

All companies lie to protect their business interests and to increase their profits. When they get caught, they will lie about why they were lying. Even when they are not lying, they are intentionally withholding the truth or parts of the truth from their users to protect themselves and their profit margins. And yes, that goes for Ledger's biggest competitor as well.     

There are also some other things worth considering. I have found that the exchange rates on decentralized exchanges are usually a bit worse than on centralized ones. So the money you would save by not paying withdrawal fees is lost due to a worse exchange rate. Then there is the question of the security deposit. I think new users who play around with DEXs for the first time are displeased with the security deposits. If all you have is 0.1 BTC and you want to trade all of it on Bisq, you can't because a piece of that pie has to be deposited as a security deposit. However, the positives still outweigh the negatives. 

There is a good alternative to LocalBitcoins called LocalCryptos. LocalBitcoins is custodial (I believe). LocalCryptos is a non-custodial P2P marketplace where you don't have to undergo KYC.

The .onion website is the only one that works currently because the .com version has been taken down. Even if it was online, the TOR browser offers a privacy boost that the clearnet version can't keep up with. You shouldn't be using the .com version if you can do it through TOR.

Good to know. Does the recovered wallet contain your entire Bitcoin portfolio as you remember it or do you believe you should have more? If you have access to everything now, you are done with the recovery procedure.

What you should consider doing now is creating a brand-new wallet and moving all your recovered coins to it. Even better if you purchase a good hardware wallet. Like I mentioned previously, your seed has been entered in several hot wallets. That lowers the security of it and increases the possibility of you losing your BTC in case something goes wrong with any of them.

Advertising and shilling is not against forum rules. If that were the case, we wouldn't have signature campaigns and other promotional activities. Aggressive advertisement of a site or service that creates spam whose purpose is only mentioning the brand without creating any quality for the forum is not allowed. Continuously advertising in other people's threads (especially if it's off-topic) is also forbidden. 

Not all require KYC, you are right about that, but they reserve the right to request it if you get on their radar by doing anything suspicious. What is considered suspicious depends from exchange to exchange. The sole fact that the money originates from gambling activities or mixing services can be enough for them to say: hey, who are you, and where did you get those coins from?

When we are talking about centralized exchanges, I see FTX being mentioned more and more in the last months. It's got a decent exchange rating on CMC (not that it matters though) and big daily trading volume.

I think that Bitcoin has already proven its strengths in the decade it's been with us. It has survived price crashes of 80% and more. It's been banned in some parts of the world, regulated in others, and even used as legal tender. Nothing that has happened to it has stopped it from reaching new highs.

It has never been an investment platform. It's a trustless, decentralized, and censorship-resistant digital currency that achieves transaction finality in one hour on average.

If you are asking if the network has regulators in the traditional sense of the word, no it doesn't. As long as people are willing to invest money in expensive mining equipment, maintain full-nodes, and use Bitcoin as a P2P payment option, it will be here. Feels weird talking about what the future will bring when there is a sick a derailed man sitting in an underground bunker somewhere asking himself how long it would take for his nuclear weapons to reach London, Paris, or Berlin.

No, that won't happen. That doesn't prevent you from getting paid or paying for goods and services in Bitcoin. If something has value, there will be a market for it. Pencils, water, and deodorants are also not government-controlled and issued currencies, but you can accept them in a trade, and chances are, someone somewhere would be willing to pay you that way.

You can post every time you believe you have something meaningful to say. But that doesn't necessarily have to be a new thread. You can make on-topic posts in discussions created by other forum users. If you have a particular topic in mind and something you would like to discuss, use the forum search or take advantage of the search quality of Ninjastic.space.

If it's been discussed before, there is no need for you to reopen that subject. On the other hand, if you want to tackle the problem differently, you can of course do that. Checking similar threads that were created in the past is a good idea to see how they can be improved and made better by yourself. Things might have changed in the meantime, new services, software, and hardware might have become available. Laws and regulations could have been adjusted, etc., etc.

I can already picture it. Priests preaching about Bitcoin and telling their followers how God wanted a digital currency, so he told satoshi to invent BTC. The one and only coin to unite Christians worldwide. A coin Jesus would have used if he was alive today. By using Bitcoin, you will reach the gardens of paradise.

And then the bear market starts and all of a sudden, no one cares about the heaven anymore. They just want to decapitate the priest who told them to use Bitcoin.   

You can't really expect privacy if you are using centralized exchanges. Most of them require that you undergo KYC, so they will know who you are. no matter how many routes your crypto takes before getting from your private wallet to the exchange wallet, if the exchange knows you are John Smith, they will know it's John Smith's coins that were just deposited in his account. CEXs also co-operate with chain analysis companies to de-anonymize their customers.   

If you haven't gone through KYC but taken part in CoinJoins or coin mixing, that might be a reason for the exchange to ask you to identify yourself depending on what they consider to be taint. Have you tried using Bisq, a completely decentralized exchange that runs over TOR?

KYC on crypto casinos has always been a problematic thing. Many platforms claim they won't ask you for it, but if you win a big amount, they reserve the right to do it anyway according to their TOS. Whatever site you decide to use in the end, make sure you read their TOS fully and also take some time to talk with their customer support to explain that you are a US national who lives abroad.

According to a quick google search, here are a few names you can try. I am not recommending any of these platforms, you have to do your own due diligence and check their reputation before you decide if it's ok to trust them with your money.

BitcoinCasino.us
Cloudbet
mBit Casino
WildTornado
Bitcoin Penguin
Bitcoin Casino

Take a look at these sources for more info:
https://99bitcoins.com/best-bitcoin-casino/#CasinosavailableforUSplayers
https://coingambling.info/news/best-bitcoin-casinos-for-us-players/

Not really. No one gets banned on Bitcointalk for being a fraudster or scammer. You can literally scam anyone you want and unless you don't break any of the forum rules while doing it, you will remain on the forum. That's why we have the trust system and you can see people with dozes on negative feedback for scamming activities, but they are still active on Bitcointalk. You can't spam, plagiarize, and spread malware, but you are free to scam.

This one by theymos was good as a reply to a user who was requesting for KYC on the forum because people were cheating with multiple accounts in bounty campaigns. Theymos added it to his to-do list, of course.

It's interesting how only senior members have replied so far and nobody has written they don't like the idea or are against it.
I wouldn't use a console to access Bitcointalk. I want my experience to preserve at least some visual appeal.

I would rather see an official mobile app since people have been complaining about that for years. I don't need it personally, but it would be nice to have one. Maybe a new group of users would be attracted or we could keep some who are here from leaving.

You don't have to provide any addresses yourself. Everything you need can be obtained from block explorers or by checking all addresses ever used here, or those that have/had balances here. 
If it was possible to obtain private keys that way, Bitcoin wouldn't make any sense. There isn't even a danger for addresses whose public keys are known, despite the occasional worry that supercomputers might one day be powerful enough to obtain a private key from a public key.

You can get Bitcoin all over the world. Your government can't prevent you from downloading and verifying a simple to use wallet such as Electrum, creating a new wallet, and sending your clients a receiving address that they can fund. Bitcoin doesn't need permission to cross oceans and mountains and doesn't know geographical restrictions.

Your government can also not prevent you from using TOR, a quality VPN, or a decentralized crypto exchange like Bisq.
When it comes to cashing out your coins and converting them to local fiat, that's where it can become a bit tricky. But that's why we have P2P trading, Bisq, Local Cryptos, and similar services. 

A few years? It happened a year ago, give or take a month or two. 

The economic situation in the Central African Republic is even worse than in El Salvador. They don't have the crime rates of South America, but we are talking about a country where the majority of the population don't even have electricity or access to computers and mobile phones. 8 or 9/10 people don't have internet access. Good luck using Bitcoin there. And before someone recommends Bitcoin over satellite, those struggling to put food and clean water on the table have other priorities that purchasing satellite dishes. 

Pay attention to how you create your wallet and the seed in Electrum. Because you have to generate a 12-word seed first, and after that you can export your master private key as witcher_sense explained. If you are doing that on a computer connected to the Internet and a device that has been online before the wallet creation and will go online again afterwards, you can't consider that as a wallet created in an offline environment. Your PC should be permanently airgapped during the wallet creation process (preferably using an open-source OS) and stay that way after it's done. 

Yeah, I just noticed that by looking at https://walletsrecovery.org/. But Electrum should discover the correct path by clicking on the button we both suggested.

Judging by this reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/tu6nmj/brd_wallet_closed_12_word_seed_phrase_does_not/), the derivation path BRD uses for Ethereum should be the same as used by other software wallets like Trust Wallet, Coinbase, or Exodus. Those are also some options that can be tried. I don't recommend those wallets though. That reddit user recovered his ETH, but he was struggling with his BTC due to the different standard as you mentioned above.

Check what I wrote previously and o_e_l_e_o's comments about the derivation path and you shouldn't have issues getting it to work.