for the past eight years they have been trying to make bitcoin legal, many countries such as Japan recognized bitcoin as a legal "currency", in US bitcoin is a legal "commodity" and so many other countries. nothing is going to happen with this legal state of bitcoin, specially in countries like US that don't want to be behind of other countries in technology.

there aren't anything that can come to my mind that i wished i knew, and this is because i started very slowly. at first i learned many things about trading, the basics, ... and then i started doing it with small amounts trying to put those things i learned to test in real action. and for a while i just worked with that small amount and every profit that i made from that small amount i put back in trading again and in time i grew my investment, making more over time.

you can do the similar thing and never regret a thing.

i have always said that it is not easy to predict bitcoin price, and future is not clear. but some things are just dumb.

for example saying that price will go to $10,000 in a couple of months to a year just because there was a rise.

the same thing goes for saying price will fall down to $500 just because a price correction happened after a fast rise to $1160
now that a couple of weeks passed with price above $800 and entering $900 range now, all those users saying things like "Crash", "since there was a drop it will drop more", "$500, $400, back to $200" have disappeared, waiting for another tiny drop to come out and start saying the same stuff again!

the reason for that is because back in 2013 the rise was ridiculously big and in a short time, so it was unique in the world. and when something is like that, we always see a lot of noise in the media.
but these days the rise is mostly normal like any other market for investors. and also there are lots of news in the media about bitcoin these days but they are not always about price.

actually you are wrong.
i am not an expect in this matter but from what i have read from experts, Lightning Network uses payment channels with Hashed TimeLock Contracts. Both of those things are currently usable on Bitcoin mainnet without segwit, so LN is possible without segwit.

what segwit does is (i think) making it easier and safer.

you can also read this: http://achow101.com/2016/04/Segwit-FUD-Clearup

edit: funny thing is when you search "lightning network without segwit" you see cryptocoinnews shitty article spreading false information once again!

none of them are good.
in my 2-3 years of experience seeing different articles from different news sites, i always see so many shitty news from all of them. sometimes they post click-baits, sometime they even post clear FUD, and sometimes they are paid to support a shitcoin before the whales pump it.

and if you search this board you  can see at least a dozen topic complaining about how each of these news sites censored the comment section when people complained about what they posted.

the thing is, these aren't really "news" sites these are just a website created to make more money for the owner. and that is all their purpose.

actually i can not choose any of your poll choices because it matters and doesn't matter at the same time!
if the coin has a big amount of total supply doesn't mean it is bad.
and if the coin has a small amount of total supply doesn't mean it is good, or it is going to succeed!

for me, i care more about how it is distributed. for example if it has 10 million coins and 9 million is premine or with any other scam is in control of the dev and 1 mil is open to public, that coins is dead to me

i don't agree with this because first of all, keeping private keys by yourself is one of the main purposes of bitcoin! to be your own bank without any central place to rely on! so if you want to keep private keys at banks then just keep fiat in banks, why bother (and we are talking about future, and price won't be as volatile now)

also keeping private keys safe on your own is easy as cake.
either pay for hardware wallet and keep safe, or other many cold storage methods for advanced users.

p.s. making a bitcoin bank account like what coinbase does and customers don't have private keys is different from holding private keys.

bitcoin price rises only because of adoption and because of the big potential bitcoin has and wise investors see that clearly.
all the side news like Trump victory, ... are side news that can temporarily change the price for the better or worse. but that last short term.
the over all trend is rise and will remain that.

so far there is no similarities between nowadays and 2014 days.
starting from the rise, it was slow and strong unlike that rise which was fake and fast.
and now, with passing of each day we can see that the drop was nothing more than a fake FUD dump for the whales to get more cheap coins in their pocket.
i don't want to start another moon speculation but we will see $1000 again sooner than you may think.

based on my experience, whatever you end up doing for your cold storage, one important thing to do is to keep multiple backups from it. because any method has some kind of risk of losing.
you can lose it by misplacing the paper!
but keeping 2 copies at least makes it twice safer in my opinion. although you should keep them seperate obviously

from my experience with being in bitcoin community for a couple of years and trading both bitcoin and altcoins, and also seeing people talk about this topic i came to the conclusion that you need to do what you think is true. what i mean is that if you think trading is like gambling then treat it that way and if not then good for you.
because in my experience we can't change the mindset of some people about some topics such as this one.

from Trump's election until today we have seen many good news and rises, and i think it has been really effective in this rise. but i don't think he will drive the price up to $2000 alone !
unless he drives US economy to shit, which is unlikely, i don't see him being the only reason for bitcoin price rise.

just a thought:
someone who calls a non-consensus, centralized fork which was more like a dictatorship from the devs "a good thing" is obviously benefiting from it

good points but selling is not a bad thing necessarily. why you sell/spend the coins is more important.

for example selling when you feel like there is a bubble that is about to pop is a good idea, but as long as you are not doing it as a panic but as a well planned strategy. and then buy back when it is over and price is low enough.

or for example if you need the money that you invested to buy something. for instance i bought many coins when price was $220 and then again when it was $430 and i sold a little bit around $1000 because i needed some money. but in general i am buying bitcoin every week that i have money lying around.

no, because nothing magical is going to happen on that day.
even if we assume that Trump is going to be a good force for bitcoin's future, there still has to be time and at least a year to see the positiveness of his possible actions towards bitcoin.
and also even if it is a rise based on hype, it should happen today (so maybe this rise was because of that). every time there is such a rise it happens before the events.

well i believe banking system will continue controlling currency for the foreseeable future and nothing can change that because people are quite happy with how things are and they are not seeking any change.

but as cryptocurrencies go, i have seen some action in Switzerland that looked so promising for the future of them but i have seem much more in other countries.

i wouldn't even call them "Issues" because what you are referring too are mostly FUD that some people with clear agenda spread everywhere.

we are facing some issues with bitcoin, but there is nothing serious and nothing to worry about, but these certain people use it to their own advantage, and then take full advantage of lack of knowledge that some new users have and fulfill their agenda.

when it comes to earning through bitcoin, at least for me, it is not just about the amount you get. obviously when you offer a service you earn the USD equal value of it but it is mostly about a new additional way of making money.

for example before i knew about bitcoin i never thought i could have a secondary earning option online! now i am trading mostly and making a decent amount of money at the end of the month in addition to my salary.

the chances of a crash like 2013 is zero for sure and the chances of a crash is also nearly zero and i only say nearly because bitcoin is unpredictable but in fact that is also zero.
people usually see only the change, they don't look at the bigger picture. they see $100 rise they think we are going to the moon but in fact it was a temporary tiny rise.
 and also when they see $100 drop after a $200 rise they panic and start saying bitcoin is dead. and that is just a correction if they use their brains.