I didn't have the time for it, but I've seen as possibly some sort of "friendly bribery". You are not new in here and you know that there's quite a hunger for merits, since they can bring better paid places in most signature campaigns.
It doesn't matter at all if you knew or not that meriting will attract more votes. It may not even matter if you withdraw from the contest or not (honorable move, but possibly useless since there's plenty of time until 17th for many more votes around).
What matter the most is to see the point and .. well, merit posts only for their usefulness

Indeed, I've reproduced this. Encrypt html is fine, decrypting it shows it as web page.
It may somewhat make sense. I mean if I make a html e-mail and encrypt it for you, at decrypting you may want to see the e-mail (web view), not its source.
However, maybe you can ask on https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues about this.

You've started it wrong.
Bitcoin is still a risky investment. Just imagine how could have been feeling during 2018, 2019 and most of 2020 those who bought Bitcoin in December 2017 and you'll know what I mean. (Just imagine they may have needed the money in 2019!).
There are 2 types of saying for the same thing, depending on "optimism" (let's say it simple). "If you don't risk a little, you have no chance for (big) gain" and "If you don't risk, you'll surely not lose". So yes, for some, investing (especially the riskier one) is similar to gambling.

I agree that "empty brains" tend to have bigger mouth, but you may be forgetting that on internet and media some people say what they think, but also some others say whatever helps them (usually for various types of material gains).

The truth is always somewhere "in the middle".


I remember that a very young colleague at work told us (years ago) that he's investing in stocks. That's rather unusual here, at least for so young people, hence some smiled or even tried to mock him a little.
Now imagine the reaction on Bitcoin investments!
People are much (much, much, much) more reserved about new things than they want to admit (or acknowledge!).


It was "a hell of a ride", and may continue to be so. It's not for everybody.
Hence the general rule "only invest what you afford to lose" (again, quite similar to "only gamble what you afford to lose"!!!), because in case you buy just before a bubble ends, you may sell at a loss or keep the money locked for longer time than you'd like.



We'll see. Let's not predict such things. Central banks are close to issuing own stable coins. If the system gets used to them, Bitcoin could easily "get in", as something international, as something that cannot be devalued by certain country's decision. Of course, for that to be achieved Bitcoin price will have to stop bouncing like crazy in all directions  

Although I didn't get to read them all (I've read through them rather randomly), for now the most impressive (although a bit long   ) imho is the interview of


PS. For some reason I am not allowed to merit some of the posts there; not sure if it's intentional, however, quite a shame...

The unpaid info is on the "Send" tab. Most probably on the "History" tab you don't have the transaction at all.
I think that between the steps you do you forgot something somewhere, but I am not sure what, because the (number of) windows showing up depend on your settings.

You may have forgotten to actually send, finalize, or broadcast.
If the transaction is not in the History tab, try to do the transaction again and look for these keywords (especially broadcast, maybe sign too) <- these you'll surely have if you have in the preferences "advanced preview".

Maybe you run Electrum on testnet and do some tests sending faucet coins from one address of yours to another.
This will allow you attempt things without spending money; this will allow you post links to actual images so we can see what you may be missing.

I just said in the context of "annoying additions to Mycelium"


Unfortunately afaik Electrum for Android still doesn't support hardware wallets. Else I would probably use it already, it would be the obvious choice.
Electrum for PC (windows, linux) is the wallet I'm using since Multibit died. (Core I've used almost exclusively for tests.)

There is also another thread about Mycelium market. I don't like their new additions. For quite some time now.
Until now I didn't find (didn't look too hard either) a better mobile wallet with HW support, but I'm with you: soon we'll have to look for real for a replacement.
Quite shame...

I see the rebranding simply money thrown out of the window. People know about "Facebook's coin", no matter how it's called.
Maybe they had some discussion with other businesses with Libra name (there's at least a Libra Bank), but still "libra" is a common Latin word, hence not copyrighted.
Strange decision...

Most exchanges did disappear after big hacks, indeed.
Very few of the exchanges did actually refund their users properly, in full and in a reasonable time frame.
As already stated, one important saying in Bitcoin community is "not your keys, not your coins", another one is "be your own bank". So the safer is to withdraw and keep the coins safe.

But before withdrawing I suggest you do some reading (and maybe asking questions too) on how to keep your funds safe.
This is important because if you are careless or simply don't know what you are doing you can easily lose your coins.

Although mobile wallets are indeed suboptimal as security, if you don't download many strange apps and you are also careful which mobile wallet you download, you should be OK-ish (for daily use amounts), meaning that you will not be specifically targeted.
On the other hand web wallets are continuously targeted by phishing and the hackers do try to hack them since they're the perfect "honeypot". Also quite some web wallets may still not allow you set tx fee or may not send out a tx exactly when you send it (which matters if you buy things directly for Bitcoin).

So web wallets are well under mobile wallets. (Of course, I would not use mobile wallet in the year 2020+ without a hardware wallet attached).

I've just noticed something that causes this to be taken into account late:
tx 6d39ddf0ec4ce578bd70300c317865aa40d471e9feed3b794655f51ad5b33e9a has unconfirmed parent 794b3223490d46ad9f2e5ddb66e9964748c23241bac2d933dc2c78ee024b05fe with (low) 3.387 sat/vbyte fee


In theory we may have a CPFP but I don't know if child's tx fee is big enough for that.

It did happen in 2017. But since then the default "aging" time was increased a lot. Iirc it was from 2 days to 2 weeks.
But also, since everyone has his own mempool, some may discard some of the transactions earlier, some later.


Still, I find it interesting/strange that it was not confirmed yet. The fees are clearly lower now than 51 sat/vbyte.

I will be different from the others: I don't trust USDT. It's OK for very short term, but that's all.
Also the fact USDT is accepted by most exchanges may not help much; there's quite likely OP will go back to the same exchange.
So I advise OP check what stable coins his current exchange works with, maybe even one backed by that exchange. Also there are other types of stable coins OP may find interesting, for example those tied to Gold price; but of course, he will have to find a honest one (so even more research to be made).

I advise any coin developer wannabe to start his own coin instead of forking Bitcoin. On the long term this will be better (and more honest too).
On the other hand forking Bitcoin does have its own use: if you want 1000s of Bitcoin for testing (i.e. you cannot or don't want to fake the mBTC you can get from testnet faucet), it can be a good approach for testing.

Many (including one of the twins) are saying that the current bull run is different. And I tend to agree with them.
The institutional money is here. This is a big deal. The bull run may be longer, higher and may not end as abrupt as the previous one either.
2021 is announced to be nice, to say the least.

If you enter that private key at a new wallet creation, you'll have that wallet inside your Electrum.
As said, it is a somewhat limited wallet, since it has only one address (if you imported only one private key), but since you just want to send the funds away, it does the job.

If you sweep the private keys, as I said at point 4, this will create a transaction that will send the funds from the paper wallet to your current wallet.
Sending a transaction costs money and a transaction needs to be confirmed so you can say that you have those funds into Electrum.
This takes time, depending on the fee you paid, how busy the network (mempool) is and luck (confirmations means mined blocks which may come in the next second or maybe after 30 minutes, depending on luck; the average is at 10 minutes though).

So the time difference is between having something now and having something sent to you.

Indeed, normally the key file contains on the relevant lines pairs like:
private_key white_space key_creation_date
...and the key starts with K or L.

But Multibit used to also have the option to export the key encrypted and I don't remember the format for that. Maybe that's the case here.



OP, is there any chance you'd remember if you exported the key with password protection and maybe you remember the password too?
I'd suggest that after a backup of those files you'd install the old Multibit, import the key then export it without password protection. Then you'll be able to import into Electrum.

First of all, impressive job, well done!

Some thoughts/possible additions. If you find them helpful, use them. If you don't, no biggie  

* I am surprised that Bitsler is not in the list for crypto gambling
* For portfolio tracking WorldCoinIndex also does the job nicely
* Ledger wallet is great only as hardware device, their wallet software could be much better (for example many newbies come to this forum asking about missing funds because simply the wallet seems to have some odd syncing issues).

Some thoughts:

1. Watch only wallet is a wallet you cannot spend from. From what you wrote that may not be clear.
2. If you create a wallet in Electrum from address it'll be watch only; if you create it from private key it will be full address and you can spend.
3. If you just want to send to exchange you most probably don't care about change addresses and such.
4. Sweeping the paper wallet, afaik, means that you already have a wallet you are working from and it creates a transaction from your paper wallet to the wallet you are in "now"; although it could be easier to use (scan qr) it means extra costs (the network fee for the extra tx).
5. If your paper wallet has the private key visible and unencrypted and you think you have the patience to type the entire private key into Electrum, that would be the fastest way to access the coins.
6. Make sure the Electrum you use is downloaded from electrum.org and the signature is verified (https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-verify-your-electrum-download/ )
7. If you import the private key you'll probably have to tell Electrum what type of address is the private key for. This means you may have to type something before the private key, the [Info] button should tell you what. (for address starting with 3 you'll need p2wpkh-p2sh: or, for bc1 you'll need p2wpkh:; for starting with 1 it's p2pkh: )
8. Since my explanations may not be the best, it could be useful to also read https://bitcoinelectrum.com/importing-your-private-keys-into-electrum/
9. Keep in mind that when you'll send away the funds to exchange you'll have to pay the network fee; you better inform yourself about it.

I agree with both of you.
Normally you can't retire with only $1 million indeed. I've read at some point that a good minimum is $3 million. But if Bitcoin reaches $1M, the $3M is not that far, actually in a/the following market cycle it'll be reached.