I find it to this day overpriced and not really useful.
As already said, if the computer has malware on it from start 2FA will not help.

A simple math tells that if you plan to do at least 150 transactions you'll get a hardware wallet in the same money (and I didn't count the extra you'd pay in the tx fees because of multisig).

With all due respect for the brilliant piece of software Electrum is, this 2FA feature caused more troubles to newbies than helping them and now it's time to think seriously that it should be retired.

Bitcoin is (also?) a currency. Sooner or later I may have to use it again for whatever reasons.
Also I don't own enough bitcoin to allow me retire if I sell at 100k

So I guess that I'll stay in the game. I'll work more, I'll earn more and I'll wait for Bitcoin get much higher than 100k. Not much else I can do.

I think that the key of the problem is the 2FA.
That's a different, 3rd party service that imho brings you no benefit and which costs money.

Edit: I also found a link with the fees; with default settings I think that you'll pay 0.0025BTC for this service (and it covers the next 100 transactions).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279842.msg55310504#msg55310504
So your best choice is to learn how to re-create your wallet without 2FA.

Exactly. In a world where you can have NFC rings, i.e. probably same/similar tech without getting it inserted inside your body, what this people are doing is clearly an exaggeration.

Now to the topic: Since they already use their money only digitally, this move is an obvious step. For average Joe will most probably nothing change, while the companies will not have to pay fat fees to VISA/Mastercard.
It's about a lot of money that now leaves their country and can remain in there, maybe as some smaller fee the central bank could ask for keeping the system up and running.
And just imagine what power will the government have over the population's money...

BitPay is not fair play with bitcoiners and I don't trust them.
I don't know how far can they go, but I can easily expect them from selling KYC info and users' buying habits to going onto fractional reserve based banking-like services.
Although it may sound good, I see it as bad for the ecosystem.

Week-ends tend to be "unnatural" and the trends from week-ends can easily change when the working days start.
So although I expect to still have upward pressure, although I like to see it rise again (or recover, at least), I would not get too happy exactly because it's week-end.
Also with the holidays a slow down can also happen, so the most important 2 things for the remaining 3 weeks are to not go too far down from current levels and get back on a rise in January.

Let's wait and see what happens next week, which is for many (traders too) the last working week of this year.

There are plenty of anonymous altcoins. Is Monero the best? It's debatable. But this thread can easily become a honeypot for all those into shilling privacy altcoins.

There used to be debates on ZCash privacy = iirc you have to trust that some individual(s) will keep I-don't-know-what private and never touch it. (I never knew more exactly and never cared, by I hope it rang some bells to those who know).

There used to be debates on Dash privacy = iirc part of the discussion was that those masternodes are probably all in AWS and one entity can have more of them and may be able to correlate information into break the privacy.

Is Monero perfect? I don't know. But the fact it's delisted from certain Asian markets tells it's not bad.
Are others better? Hard to tell, hence they're also probably not that bad.
All in all it's hard to tell which is "more private" in the day-to-day use unless we get to code reading and academic debates, which may be of no use for the average Joe.

Years? I can do that for years now.. in Romania!
I've got 3 years ago some coins as Christmas present from @yahoo62278 and I bought a computer display off them, directly for Bitcoin. I use that display even at this moment.

OK, I can do that at a very limited number of online shops, but I am sure that this is more common in more evolved countries.

...did I misunderstand something you meant?!

No use. As Satoshi said "if you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry".

The problems are not the ones you wrote. The problem is that you have no patience.
How you expect that the herd would massively use this coin all the governments said they should stay away of?
Do they have enough good examples there for long time and telling they should use Bitcoin? No. Not yet.

I'll be waiting patiently for the time to prove you wrong.

I think that the impact of millennials is still not understood fully.

Millennials see internet as something normal. They understand the technology better than their parents. And well, they are the future.

While many thought that the previous generations should be attracted into Bitcoin, since some of them have much more money for example, those will still prefer gold and stocks. They don't understand this Bitcoin thing. They (still!) have a better chance to see it as a threat than as something beneficial.

And here the millennials come in: they can help the older ones from around them (families, friends, co-workers, their managers) understand what's this all about. They have the potential to get everybody aboard.
That's much more than only investing themselves... So yes, the best is focusing on Millennials.

Yep. Too many scams and in crypto there's no possibility for charge back either.
Hence the big sites have scripts that check for crypto addresses. This was most advertised in Twitter (after that big Twitter scam), but I see FB is no different.
Keep in mind that you are putting content onto their site, not yours. Make your own site and you'll have your rules. Or, as @mk4 said, make one page for donations purpose and link to that.

As already said, bitcoin-dot-com is not a fair and clean website hence using their news department as source of information is a mistake and a bad move.
Of course, with enough money invested and plenty of newbies not careful on what they read, this kind of sites can become "industry leaders" and "mistakes" (intentional or not) like the one from the topic can get in now and then.

So while it's nice to see this kind of problems are reported (at least here), my advice too is to also find better news sources.

PS. Did you report to bitcoin-dot-com the "error"?

I'll also add logoff + log in to the list.
And a remark at restart browser: also check with task manager it was actually stopped and not hanging.

Sometimes Chrome or some of its extensions used to handle cookies in a strange manner for me too leading to strange issues.
But I don't use Chrome as main browser, so I don't know if that's the case here.

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So according to what you say, I can't create a website "fresh apple" and "born under the sign of libra".
And since you two have so solid evidence, this is normal. OK, as you guys say. I guess I am stupid.

Is your Windows set for English or a different language (Is Electrum trying to start in another language than English)?
Certain much older version has thrown BEX because of badly translated strings.
I'd try to go if possible for English Windows and/or try other 4.0.x version of Electrum.

Interesting. I'll keep this in mind for next time Google doesn't find anything useful; then I'll see what Bing can do for me. Thanks.

Edit: I've also tried it.
Google did return as you said, Bing didn't. And, even worse, exactly your first result (smh) is missing in my list.
I get:

Although this doesn't make sense to me (if this would be as you are saying, then I would have been forced to buy apples from Apple store), you do have some sort of proof and I don't find any.
I am not convinced what "word mark" means.
However, I'll leave this as it is. As I said, you do have proof while I have none and I can respect that.

I have now 80% BTC and 20% alts and I am quite unhappy about this ratio.
At some point (possibly in 2017) the ratio was 66% BTC and 33% altcoins, but in time the value of my altcoins has dropped by a great deal and never recovered properly (against Bitcoin).

Of course, meanwhile I've also stashed a bit more Bitcoin too.

Limiting their posts only to Beginners & Help can be an option and maybe the only one close to valid.
Stopping them completely from posting should not be done. Asking for some extras (invites) is also bad idea.

Keep in mind that some (few?) newbies are honest and come here with problems or simply for the reason this forum was created (discuss), not necessarily to spam and do bounties. Those should be allowed ask their questions and get the chance to properly describe their problems (which usually comes as a later post), or simply to chat a little.

And yes, that quote from Theymos about newbie jail is very eloquent.