Governments are there in the first place not as a guard of wealth, but as a guard of order and human rights(which is it's intended purpose). Although that is the case, government nowadays exist as a guard of freedom and wealth, like what you said. They are the economy drivers though, since they are the ones with the authority to lead the country to growth and development.

I think no one needs to dread the month of May. Selling right now is only a good idea when you will gain profit out of it, if not just hold and get some fiat ready. In case it dumps, it is a good opportunity to buy up some cryptos. Nevertheless, I think market would not be driven down. Instead, I think that might drive price up considering some stock investors will look for other trades to profit from, and crypto is one option.

You might also want to consider the fact that bitcoin is handling more volumes of transaction than ETH, and thus is the reason why ETH can now handle more transaction per second than bitcoin but I doubt if it will be fast or slow if it begins to have at least 70% of the current transaction volume of bitcoin. Nevertheless, I think both platform will be at par with each other in the future in terms of security.

I think offtopic board is still active(look at it now) since the last posts that are made on threads there are still recent. It also isn't pointless at all, every forum in the internet have their own off-topic board, and bitcointalk should not be an exemption to this. There is also no need to revive it since it is still active. If you are referring to the activeness of quality posters in that board, don't expect them to be active there.

Every transaction is transparent in the blockchain in the first place and in order to keep your anonymity in using bitcoin, then all you need to do is to not disclose your identity to anyone and to not announce that a particular wallet is yours. Have a wallet that only YOU knows that you own it. When sending btc to it, transactions must stem from exchanges in order to maximize anonymity using that particular address.

There is also the fact that the source of news is not credible. It might be true but not all of the information there is a fact(probably).
I think it is still good news since scams would be lessened, and crypto space would be cleansed a little bit from shitcoins that plagues it. I wonder though how will they do that massive crackdown if some scammers are anonymous when they are doing fraudulent activities in crypto space>

What specifically would you want to learn about crypto? The tech behind it? Trading? Or Bitcoin in general? If you only want to learn about the tech behind Bitcoin, go to development and technical discussion section. If you want to learn about trading, then go to Trading Discussion. If it is Bitcoin in general, go to Bitcoin Discussion, and read some threads in other sections to learn knowledge about crypto.

Op thinks that way because of his subjectivity. Like what you stated, volume of btc transaction is big despite of the current bearish trends that have happened(which is stated on chart's data). By saying concensus, he meant that we will see what is the market's general decision(in two weeks). If the trend continues, we will know that most of the users decided to buy some btc and accumulate and vice versa.

Paid API's can also help you save time(a lot) since you won't need to fix your api everytime it hits it's rate limit. It also tends to be useful in keeping your website up and running 24/7(since it will be able to handle simultaneous requests).
Paid API's exist of course to aid website owners in handling API requests(refresh and page loading) made by users more efficiently than using free ones.

I think it is a good news for cryptocurrency in general for IBM and that group of gold and diamond industry companies to take interest into creating their own blockchain ran platform since it would as well mean the start of flowing in of institutional money. You should include your sources for your claims though so that others can easily verify the credibility of the news you have given us.

It would make your trades too often since 3% loss is easy to achieve in crypto. I suggest you set your stop loss to 40% and set your stop for selling as 30% for a better profit(if you wont do day trades). If you will, then your stop for selling is fine, but set your stop loss to 30% for better profits(since most markets doesn't drastically moves down all the time, which will lessen your trades. It will also help you save up on fees).

Also, add staking bitcoin address in this thread. Prevention is not enough, you should also get the cure ready and set up in order to recover your account in case it was hacked. If you will stake your bitcoin address on that thread, remember to stake only btc address that you really own and control via private key(not btc address from exchange and web wallets that doesn't give you access to private keys)to be able to create a signed message when needed.

It won't always be that way because tether only represents dollars and euro in crypto world, but they really aren't the fiat currencies everyone trust. For this reason, it will not hold it's value if it started collapsing on a large scale again. That large scale collapse will cause credibility crisis once again on tether. Nevertheless, I don't see how it would also be the cause for another BTC collapse.

I think it is still a good time to buy BTCP as price is still cheap according to charts. Although that is the case, if you already have some simply hold, do not buy more.  Nevertheless, I expect more from it considering that it is a fork from btc. Like how Bitcoin cash reach hundreds, I expect it to reach 100$ price before it becomes stable in a price range.

It depends on the skills you currently have. If you are skilled in programming and any other computer related skills, You can offer your services in services section in marketplace. You can also start up your own exchange in the future if you like(given that you have a huge sum of capital ready). Although that is the case, I advice you to think up of a unique business of your own, pioneers most of the times are the ones who succeed(but not all the time).

His/her account can be given a red trust by DT Members, but I think he/she will only continue plagiarizing bitcointalk threads in that website. Are there bitcointalk rules that discusses about plagiarism of forum threads outside the forum? If none, then DT members cannot take an action to stop him/her by doing that act. I think the account deserves a ban though, it is still plagiarism after all.

Whales can also be referred to as bears when they dump a lot of their stash, so in a sense I can say that bitcoin is not out of the bear pocket yet and will always not be. So long as they can buy low and sell high, there will always be a supply for bears to dump. I also think that btc is not in the clear yet, we might see another bearish trend soon(I might be wrong though) but there is also a chance that we will see a bullish move again.

Some does have reasonable grounds, and they help the community as well by doing so(specially those who do fundamental analysis) because it will lessen the time spent on looking for news(by speculators).
There is a hope for governments and users to be on the same page and help btc together in increasing adoption rate. So long as there are benefits governments can gain by doing so, do not lose hope.

If they do that, then those money will be useless later on because it's value would decrease and the whole country in general will suffer. Like what other stated above, it will inflate the national currency of a country if they did that.
He is not talking about the total supply, but it's value in general and he just made use of the supply and demand to describe how bitcoin and fiat can increase or decrease in value.

Are you saying here that bitcoin is bad for the people? I think not since it grants them full control over their money(because of decentralization).
Society will not get flooded by cryptos, since most are destined to be used only as an alternative means to pay. Banks won't lose their cartels either and people will still continue to use their services in the future, even if there is a decentralized way to store money.