Quote from: nc50lc on Today at 06:53:57 AM

Quote from: atrocious hindwind on March 27, 2023, 10:40:09 AM

I opened two other wallets at the advice of what turned out to be a couple suspicious characters on another forum. This was about a week ago after discovering the problem with the Electrum wallet. I attempted to buy a small amount of bc for a blockchain.com wallet but the transaction did not go through because they thought I may have been a victim of a scam and wanted further verification (selfie, official ID, dated note, etc.). Perhaps the 1N8vh... "address" instead of a bc1q address triggered an alarm or something, I don't know. I decided to forego the transaction and return to attempting to resolve the electrum wallet. That's when I found this forum. I also opened a Trust wallet that I have done nothing with.

So those wallets are just created recently and not before creating your Electrum wallet?
If so, the address can't be from any of those.
If not and those are before Electrum: it's worth to check those wallet's address list if it belongs there.

For the additional info requested by blockchain.com (not affiliated with Bitcoin), it's mandatory to their Buy/Sell and Exchange services.

Quote from: atrocious hindwind on March 27, 2023, 10:40:09 AM

nc501c, I can assure you I did not paste anything from the clipboard into the program. I don't even know how to use a clipboard. I have no idea where this 1N8vh... number came from.

Then the wallet is created by someone else or as mentioned above, already there when you installed Electrum.
It's possible since Electrum's data directory is separate from the install directory and wont be deleted during uninstall.

There also inconsistencies that leads to my suspicion that you've totally misremembered what happened.

Yes, the two wallets are only a little over a week old.

I did the selfie, id, etc. thing when I opened the blockchain wallet. They asked for it again when I attempted a transaction noting I may be a "victim".

It is likely I am "misremembering" some things about the initial install of the Electrum wallet. But, as I said before, I don't have the know how to even think about modifying the program and don't recall doing anything to add/change any aspect thereof. As for the wallet already being there when I installed Electrum it makes me wonder what are the odds I would randomly select a wallet that just happened to already be on my computer?

I do admit to making several mistakes (mostly of omission) by venturing into crypto wallets half-cocked. Whatever happened seems to be irreparable. Perhaps I have failed in relaying the information needed by those of you who are quite well versed in this stuff. Perhaps I did do something I can't remember to foul up the install. Perhaps it's just an odd glitch that's never been seen before. To all of you who've been so generous to put in the time and brain power to help me I thank you and I envy you. From here on out I'll check the blockchain from time to time to see what might have been. I've already lost half of my investment in bc so losing the other half will be something I'll just have to live with. Maybe one day I'll run across someone who can physically go into this Pc and figure out what went wrong since the coin doesn't seem to be going anywhere. It's time for me to put this down and move along. Again, thank you all for all you've done.