Then what is Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies based on? They are not based on anything. They, like the US dollar and all other fiat currencies in the world are based on value given them by society. And if you really think about it, what gives gold its value? Nothing, but what people are willing to pay for it. I don't think it is the fact that there is nothing to back the currency, but the fact that it is centralized and that centralized power can just keep printing more and more without limits. I think what gives Bitcoin its value is like what gives gold its value; there is a finite supply. I'm sure that if we found some planet full of gold and people started mining it that gold's value would suddenly plummet from the new massive influx of supply, just like what is happening to the dollar.

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Interesting, But I am questioning the teamviewer part. If anyone keeps Bitcoin on their computer, teamviewer could let him steal your wallet file. Just to be safe, I would recommend that people encrypt their wallets before doing this and be cautious, especially since OP is a newbie.

I think those transactions were being sent to publicly known brainwallets. The brainwallet passwords were probably simple ones like cat, password, 12345, etc. The miners can easily get the private keys associated with those brainwallet passwords and can then send those transactions in an attempt to recover everything from them as a huge transaction fee.

That could also have been blockchain.info dropping the transaction themselves. To be sure, you should also check other blockchain explorers since bc.i has had some issues recently.

That is a problem since the wallet file will be encrypted and the master public key will not be particularly useful. Unless you used a simple password, I don't think those coins will be recoverable. If you remember some of your password or have an idea what it could be, then there are services which will recover your wallet password for you. Otherwise, I think those coins are gone forever.

BTW, this belongs in the Electrum section where they may be able to help you more.

The transaction was not deleted at all. Zapwallettxes deletes the transaction from its local database. However, since that transaction had already been broadcasted, other nodes will have it in their mempools. When you Bitcoin Core node starts up with that flag enabled, it will start receiving and requesting transactions from its peers, and since that transaction includes one of your addresses, it will ask for it as well. It was not recreated nor was it deleted in the first place.

While that would be great, how would such a thing be possible? A zero trust escrow in itself is contradictory since an escrow is a trusted person who holds money or goods for a trade. Escrow means that you need to trust someone. How would an automated 0 trust escrow work?

You won't get paid, but getaddr.bitnodes.io has an incentives program where every week one node that verifies with them can win some Bitcoin from them. It is basically the lottery and it doesn't hurt to enter it if you plan on running a node 24/7. Otherwise, don't expect any payment at all from anyone for running a full node. The incentives program can be found here: https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/nodes/incentive/

Here is the address you posted: XPch9Yha78Yw9GJ6pSdffP1UngaL3KHgML. It is for BnrtxCoin.
The post is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1094221.msg11689205#msg11689205 and quoted below

To sign a message, open the Core wallet, go to File > Sign Message and enter in the top bar the address, in the middle text box your message which should say your current user name, your hacked username, and the date. Then click the Sign Message button and copy and post the signature which is generated in the bottom bar. Post the address as well as the message when you post the signature.

It doesn't hurt to try but it is just a petition so it can't force anyone to do anything.

No. By received he means the computer actually received the transaction from the p2p network.

yes, but it is going to take longer than either waiting for a confirmation or asking brianddk to help you with CPFP. You could try doing RBF which is Replace By Fee, but very few nodes and miners implement that. Much less than CPFP. With CPFP, you will need to wait for Eligius to mine a block with your transaction. I don't know of any miner that does RBF yet. You could also do the standard delete transaction from wallet and wait a few days but that will take a few days.

It isn't supposed to deal with trust. The whole thing is supposed to be trustless. It is unfortunate that we live in such a day and age where greed rules everything and everyone.

That is called going to faucets. Every faucet required you to solve a captcha and they will give you a few hundred satoshi. You can't get a lot doing that though.

And if you don't want your data going to apple, don't use iOS, macs, or Safari. If you don't want Microsoft to know, don't use Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, or Windows. And if you don't want Mozilla to track don't use Firefox.

So basically, use linux and Tor. I would recommend TAILS(https://tails.boum.org/) which uses Tor by Default.

It probably only started initializing when you selected the option to use smart fee. Otherwise it would just be a waste of resources.

I see that the only address he posted is for an altcoin. Do you think it would be acceptable if he signed a message using that altcoin's address?

You need to wait for smart fee to initialize. It even told you so. Smart fee looks at fees from recent transactions and blocks so it needs to see those transactions and blocks before it can create a good estimate for a fee. Next time, you can either leave Bitcoin Core open or wait for smart fee to initialize before sending any Bitcoin.

To fix this, if you have change from that transaction, you can try a CPFP transaction. This is another transaction that spends the outputs of the first transaction but has a higher fee so that the fee covers both transaction's fees. You can ask this user https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=538273, brianddk, for help doing this.

It lets Bitcoin Core scan the blockchain for the transactions related to the addresses in the wallet since transactions aren't stored in the wallet. If it encrypted the addresses, then you would have to decrypt it in order to see how much Bitcoin you have. Besides, transactions and addresses are already public, so it doesn't hurt to leave them decrypted.