The only question that can be answered from your list is the how and why.
How - Bitcoin is a digital asset built into the blockchain and designed to come into circulation with each confirmed block.
Why - To eliminate the dependence on third parties and allow people trade directly. This puts control into the hands of the holder of the asset

The who is a mystery, with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, sane for the where.

I'm interested.
You can contact me on telegram or drop a dm here on the forum.

Check out this thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345065.0
It is a sane and simple savings plan which also covers the important point of how to sell.

It is a savings plan, not an exit plan. I don't think anyone who is really into Bitcoin at this point plans to completely exit in the distant future.

This was a long time coming and came slower than I would have expected. At some point here merits seem to become less and less significant, but it's good to be reminded now and again that you are getting some of it and still giving quality replies to other members.

I think Coin-1 only account for earned merits

That is not storing Bitcoin, that is giving out your Bitcoin and getting a fake version of it in return which you can then store on metamask. No one should be handing out their bitcoins when there are many open source and safe alternatives to store Bitcoin, real Bitcoins.

What OP should take from the thread is that trust wallet is not recommended and should be avoided.

Theymos is the admin but did not create the forum or come up with the format the forum is using now.

Satoshi used to be online here in the early days and was responsible for the earlier version of this community and also this one we are in now, before handing it down and the current administrator is theymos. If epochtalk becomes active the design and layout can be attributed to theymos.

Many online casinos and physical ones do not enforce the age restrictions until the user wins big at which point they talk about the regulatory rules and use it as a reason to not payout.

Only really honest platforms will stop underage gamblers from playing if they can identify them but majority would not bother to check.

At some point the discussion on a topic is exhausted no matter how important or beneficial those topics are.

One way is the mods sticking them to the top, but there are too many good topics for then all to be stickied.
As an alternative you can bookmark any really good topic you find and bump them now and again so other users can benefit from it.

For some it is a make shift delete button for their account. The forum does not have such a feature so even if you wanted to abandon your account your posts and activities would remain as it was, this prompts some to go on a deleting spree to clear their account.

It's unnecessary when you think that those posts has already been logged by third party services and always would be available.

Merit is not an indication of post quality so you cannot make a direct correlation between the number of merits, activity, and posts.

The general idea is that there should be a good post to merit ratio which is indicative that the member makes quality posts and gets rewarded with merits more than not.
But it doesn't matter much as long as you're learning with time spent on the forum.

A few members fall into this category of having accumulated so much Bitcoin. And there are some who are very picky with campaigns they join. They would most times just post for the fun of learning and impacting if they do not find a suitable one to promote.

If someone invests far more than they can afford to lose, it doesn't matter what they invested in or how much research they put in, they would panic when the market turns red and even consider cutting their losses.

It's not only about what you invest in, it's about how you invest.
We have holders who have no plan for the future and no buying strategy, they just buy and hodl and contemplate selling at each bull run. We would all plan for how much we want to invest and how long we plan to hodl.

A fair majority of the members here on the forum are interested in earning or are active participating in some sort of signature campaign or an off forum paid campaign. But this does not warrant the tons of threads made about earning, bounties, merits and the likes.

This is primarily a discussion forum and anyone who wants to rank up here has to be interested in learning about Bitcoin and put in an effort to do so. The opportunity to earn from your account is an added incentive but we should not put it on a pedestal like it's the motive for the creation of this forum.

Or because they have no interest in monetizing their accounts.

You're contradicting yourself here. Candlesticks are basics of trading used to predict the outcome of the market, so saying predicting the market is not possible and still recommending they start with candlesticks is contradictory.

All sorts of traders have at some point or the other gotten burnt and experienced losses, it is not peculiar to Bitcoin traders but experienced by everyone who trades any currency.

If you trade according to amounts you can easily afford to lose, your emotions would not affect you that much. You would need a bit of control to be able to resist the urge to close trades early but without much stake you would be able to stay on top of that.

"As the court wrote in its opinion, “When creating a Coinbase account, individuals agree to the terms in Coinbase’s User Agreement. As relevant here, the User Agreement contains an arbitration provision, which directs that disputes arising under the agreement be resolved through binding arbitration.”
Be rest assured that the terms you agree to are meant to favour and protect this companies and not in your interest whatsoever. They now have the rights to seize your funds and in an event where you're a victim of their negligence you have to settle for arbitration which is less expensive for coinbase than the court.

Rather than have to enter legal proceedings to your assets, store them securely in your address.

They are predictions and they cannot be accurate exactly. It is impossible to predict the exact moment when the final block in this 210,000 block cycle would be completed, you can only estimate based on the average ~10 minute between blocks.

It is not essential to have reliable source for the next halving, all you need to do is to buy Bitcoin, hodl and wait for the pump that is likely to come after the halving.

16 years is not a disturbing number of years, it's a regular number if you're thinking long term investments. If one is not certain what it could look like in 16 years then you are equally not certain how the next day or week would affect the currency.

We sometimes refer to how cheap it was 10-12 years ago, but to have been able to benefit from the price increase you need to have held for a long period of time, close to the retirement plan of your friend.

Did you lose access to your original account or just chose to register a new one here?

I have been here since late 2018 and from then till now very little has changed. If there's something this forum is known for it is not making any changes to how it operates and relying on the status quo of operations. You would have no issues fitting into the forum again if you've remained active with Bitcoin discussions in general.

The discussion has been occuring on some different threads but you can follow the discussion from their office ANN thread on the forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5286821.700
On that page you would be able to get a feel of the previous discussions and follow it up.

It's basically about them using analysis to try and decipher who is mixing through their coinjoining services.