None. The donation ranks and prices will not be altered. Many people have discussed this before here on the forum and the conclusion has been theymos will not lower the amount for the ranks because past donators donated at 50 Bitcoin, or what ever and lowering that would be wrong.

It's also been made clear that the forum no longer requires donations, so there's no need of introducing new ranks. 

I'm not sure why you would think Bitcoin has reached it's ceiling already. But, I don't understand why you think Ethereum  as the best short term investment. Bitcoin has it's drops and it's rises and has the biggest coverage throughout the news. Which means it's more susceptible to news causing the price to differ from each month.

Totally depends on why your here. If you are looking to make money and then convert to fiat which is a viable option and people have already made their millions then there's going to be a best time to sell. Also, trading can be very profitable in the short term as well as the long term.

At the end of the day some people who did have hundreds invested in Bitcoin they probably would of sold before the current price now. Hopefully, if they were smart they would at least kept a small percentage of Bitcoin to hold on for the future.

Then there's people who are only dealing in Bitcoin and at the moment not everything can be bought with Bitcoin.

I think with users trading with each other with the right automatic systems in place, it's good. But, there will be scams and would work like Ebay does without the moderation. That's what decentralized is and prevents the company running away with any funds like they have in the past.

But, I think it's also good to have an automated escrow system. I believe it's a good way to introduce newer members into investing into Bitcoin even though its p2p. But, there's more risk and you would have to trust both the exchange and the person dealing with

When you can afford it. That's the only correct answer to this question. You should only invest when you can and only invest if you can afford taking the loss.

Believe it or not. It's not the first. It's the first with success and I can understand why anyone wouldn't mention the ones that came before it because even I can't remember their names.

Bitcoin was the first crypto which brought groundbreaking ideas and technology. The blockchain is amazing and will be incorporated in others projects other than Bitcoin a few years down the line.

Although, Windows greatly out numbers Linux for malware the numbers will be a little more skewed for programs related to Bitcoin.

We know that the general advise for someone with a cold wallet is to use a offline wallet using a Linux distribution which would mean that this could be targeted a lot more than we usually see in general.

It's quite possible that it breaks the 6,000 barrier before the hard fork. But, I'm personally expecting a little panic once the fork happens. People will then carry out their planned dump and cause even more panic to the average user. I think we'll see the price find it's way down to around 5000 again after everything has cooled down.

Probably better off contacting him directly. Otherwise, your really just getting some educated guesses. Contact him and see what he says .

It's recommended to setup a system so that if something did happen to you, then you would have someone who could transfer the funds to a relative or friend. It's basically  will and you can set it up exactly how you would with other currencies or valuables.

Using a Linux distribution is normally recommended for security. Whilst Tor is what is recommended for privacy issues regarding information that websites can see about your cookies and web browser. Email, mail2tor might go well with using Tor browser.

In future if you think something is in the wrong section, just report it to the moderators. You'll then find out whether it's been moved or dealt with a little later on. If it hasn't and you believe it should be then it might be worth messaging a moderator for an explanation. I'm sure they wouldn't mind explaining why. But, yeah these don't look like they belong there, so go ahead and give them a report.

This is far from guaranteed. I like to remain on the optimistic side of things, but we can't be sure that it will keep on rising. One of the reasons right now that the price is being brought in a upwards fashion is that people are preparing for the hard fork that is up and coming.

This is great to see in the past there were a few places which accepted bitcoin as citizenship but, nothing to the extent of this. In fact, there was one rum our of a ship accepting residents for Bitcoin, I can't seem to remember how that turned out or if they got it off the ground or not.

If you mean by using an address associated  with your forum account, then they would only be able to pose as you if they had the private keys or access to the address which they would then be able to sign.

The longest I've gone without checking is 2 years. At this time I had taken a long break from Bitcoin and did some of my life goals in the mean time. I received an alert when Bitcoin hit 2000 and that's when I lurked around the forum again. But, since I have been lurking and started actively posting I'm still not checking the price daily, nor do I plan on checking it every week.

Honestly, I only see the need to check daily if you are a trader, investor or when you need to make a transaction.

People should know to use escrow. It's posted everywhere and is a very simple process to follow. Other than that I would prefer the current  generation of users who are lazy, than ones that have restrictions on them and plan more accordingly. But it really is common sense to not trust new members and to use escrow regardless of rank.

Check if you've ever publicly posted a Bitcoin address and sign it. Otherwise, it's very unlikely you'll recover the account. Verifying the pool isn't going to do it either, you need an address signed. When/if you find an address and can sign it then send it to one of the staff members that can recover accounts theymos/cyrus.

In general, if the server which a website is hosted on doesn't offer SSL/TLS then the tor exit node will be able to see all your request data. For example; passwords.

Take a look at this link: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en#warning

That will provide you with the information of what not to do and what you can do. Basically, if you are worried about compromising any of your data on any website, make sure SSL/TLS is enabled. If it's not the exit node will be able to see sensitive data. Of course the likelyhood of someone seeing a bitcointalk forum account on a exit node and acting upon it might not be very likely. But, your in luck it's safe to use Tor on Bitcointalk  as https is enabled.