Who in their right mind wants to lose any money, especially BTC, which has a limited supply? Also, are people really still losing money on the lightning network?   I wouldn't consider a program that still has major issues causing people to lose money in the beta stage. Appears to still be in alpha stage to me.

@OP If you want to play around with the Lightning Network, I advise that you try it out on the testnet only. At least you won't lose anything of real value, except your time.

A person doesn't need "reasons" to delete a post on a self moderated topic. They could ask a Magic 8 ball or flip a coin if they wanted.

@MikeMike. Bring this up to Theymos. Not sure that he will bother, but he can nuke merits in extreme circumstances.

   The seed is the 12 word phrase. Yes, you can download it from the official electrum site. A private key is usually a long (256 bit) string of characters that are used to generate the public key. The public key is then used to generate the BTC address. You also need the private key in order to "sign" a transaction. The seed phrase is used to generate private key/public key pairs in a deterministic way. You can use the seed phrase to recover your wallet and get access to your BTC.
 

   When you open the Electrum wallet, under "file," there should be an option called New/Restore. Select that option and go through the step by step menus. You will get the option to restore by seed or importing a private key.

Sounds like a plan to me. I will transfer them to "cold storage."  However, what methods should I be using to make my refrigerator more secure?

    So, I wasn't able to visit with my family for the holidays. We exchanged gifts, today. Look what my sister gave to me.



Should I eat them, or HODL?

     Please do apply. The more the merrier.

The space mining argument is just not going to cut it. It costs billions of dollars ATM just to land a probe on an asteroid. It's even more expensive to attempt to return a small sample to Earth. We are a long way off to make such an operation profitable. The only way this starts to become feasible is if we first colonize the heavenly bodies. Then the mining would just supply the local population at first.

   The only way to deal with bumping bots is to use the report to moderator function. Many bots post insubstantial posts. (This is against the rules and can result in the post getting deleted. Multiple offenses could get the account a temporary ban.) More sophisticated bots post more substantial posts by engaging in a fake conversation. However, many times this conversation is reused and if the bot runner is having different accounts posting the same "conversation," the later conversations could result in the alt accounts getting permabanned for breaking the copy/paste rule. Unfortunately, bot runners learn from the posts that get banned and they will eventually program bumping bots that are more sophisticated.

     Since you sent it to Koinecks, Koinecks is the only one that has the private keys. There is nothing realistic that we can recommend that you do other than contacting Koinecks support.

You will have to contact the exchange, Koineks, and see if they are willing to import the private key(s) for BTC into their BCHABC wallet. Unfortunately, most exchanges are unwilling to do this.

    Wat??? Mcafee AV has got to be the worst garbage on the market. I realize that Mr McAfee hasn't had a hand in the company for quite a long while. However, it's garbage now and was garbage back in the day.
    By the way, I wouldn't give absolutely any credence to anything this guy states. The guy is a walking chemistry lab.  I strongly believe that I would find better advice and predictions if I went to a mental hospital and interviewed a paranoid schizophrenic who's not responding to medication.

Congratulations. You deserve it.

Wow, I got an increase too. Also there are now 123 merit sources. I wonder who got the honors.

 It is definitely not cool to merit your alts. I think it is perfectly justifiable to add red trust to someone who is caught, with definitive proof that the accounts are linked. Unfortunately, if someone is crafty enough, there isn't much we can do about it.

Poor OP ended up getting 3 more of his accounts banned by bringing in a "white knight" alt account. 

See this thread for details. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5092944.msg49046299#new

Approxilite is now autobanned as well.   https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=Approxilite



Well a google search of the BTC address found this profile: Yadstiker. However, it appears the posts are now deleted.

     Your accounts represent the epitome of what this forum wants to purge with the stringent copy/paste ban. Please don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.