probably everything Andreas Antonopoulos has is worth watching and is only thing worth watching on Youtube. https://antonopoulos.com/

apart from that it depends on what level of knowledge you want to gain. for example if you want basics can simplified topics then Coindesk.com has good articles in their education section that are worth reading and are simple enough to understand.
but if you want more technical knowledge then you need to be more specific about what part of "blockchain technology" you want to learn when you say "learn more about crypto". it is so vast and some parts are pretty complicated like the elliptica curve cryptography. however you can find most stuff on bitcoin wiki https://en.bitcoin.it too.

it is not just about "inside jobs" it is also about exchanges that scam you themselves! in other words I am talking about  cases that there were no hacks to begin with. it was the exchange itself scamming its users to make millions over night.
like those that closed and ran away, or like bittrex which overnight closed the accounts of thousands of users and took their money. they made millions overnight!

most of them are newbies themselves. otherwise they would have traded normally like the rest of us without feeling the need to spread nonsense. 90% of the things you read online specially on forums that are negative about bitcoin is written by someone who is new to trading, tried shorting and failed or sold in some dip and failed to buy back,... and now they want to solve that thinking if they fool others to go in their desired direction they can fill the orders they have placed.

the market is small but it is not that small! it is still big enough for any ETF or anything like that to not matter. we are no longer in early 2010-2011 where there weren't that many exchanges and volumes were too small. right now an ETF with all its size will only be a small percentage of the total market volume. not to mention that they don't directly link to the actual market, instead they take the price from it. so they can't change anything.

I don't think so. the ETF news is no longer having any sort of effects on the market anymore. it is the same stories all over again and even if there is any kind of positivity about it, people have been burnt by SEC so many times that they wouldn't believe it anymore.
this rise was two things, first was because of the bills that passed over in two US states regarding bitcoin and accepting it as a currency and second the FOMO buying that is waiting around the corner to rush in as the price rises.

lets not forget about the limited total supply of bitcoin. unlike any other currency, bitcoin has a cap. there will never be more than that fixed amount (21 million) coins and bitcoin being a global currency and the population of the world being a lot more than the small percentage that are already in, we can easily expect 6-7 figures with half a growth before even reaching mass adoption.

bull run is not a person to decide to not come and refuse it!!!

bull run is simply another stage in the market which happens unless that market is dead so unless you think bitcoin is dead there is no reason for a bull run to not happen ever again. so the real question is whether you think bitcoin is dead or not?

besides, unlike other markets, bitcoin is constantly growing because it is new and is on the path to mass adoption. and as the adoption of it grows, the demand grows and with a limited supply the price rises inevitably.

all the comments in the 4 topics you posted here are exaggeration in my opinion specially the negative ones since now the price is not rising the negative topics are more dominant from both newbies and FUDsters trying to create panic among newcomers who don't know any better.

it is a good thing that you are hesitant but you chose bad sources to make your decision. try learning more about bitcoin itself instead of reading other people's opinions. you can start by using bitcoin with a small amount and see how it actually works and what kind of advantages it has over the traditional currencies. then it may become a lot easier for you to make your decision.

a cryptocurrency is a currency or payment system that is based on cryptography. so yeah, it is correct to use that term for both bitcoin and altcoins as long as the altcoin is also a "currency" although everything becomes a blur when it comes to altcoins since majority of them are purely pump and dumps so you can't consider them as "currencies".

using the term "blockchain" in it is false in my opinion because blockchain is only representing that "database" or the chain of blocks and is not necessarily used by "cryptocurrencies" it can be used for other purposes too. not to mention that cryptocurrencies don't have to be based on blockchain either. there are other technologies, for example AFAIK, DAG is not a blockchain but DAG coins are cryptocurrenices because they are using cryptography.

bitcoin has never been anonymous so there shouldn't be any "negative effects on bitcoin in the long run" anyways because anybody who chooses bitcoin doesn't do it to remain anonymous. if they wanted that then they would have used anon coins instead.
these blockchain analysis methods have always existed and will keep on improving as the time goes by but they will never be perfect and will never be able to exactly "track" everyone and everything. so there is no negative effect on that front either.

unfortunately when it comes to financial matters there is nobody that is going to be helpful to you in my experience. specially if it is someone you don't even know yet. you either get someone who doesn't know anything who will mislead you more and that is damaging to your pocket. or you get someone who is knowledgeable but will mislead you for his own benefits, he may even take your money from you in the process.

every government in the whole world has concerns about bitcoin, I wouldn't call it "worried" but it is a concern for sure. it starts from small things such as the fact that many people are being blinded during the rallies and lose a lot of money by buying bitcoin in the bubble and panic sell during the drop or get sucked in the altcoin pump and dumps. and it goes as far as illegal activities that has been happening over in the dark net,... but that is nothing new. different governments are reacting about this "concern" differently though. we have seen those that choose to regulate bitcoin and eliminate the scammers by letting people freely be educated about bitcoin and use legitimate places for their trades. and some try banning it and end up letting more scams happen as people go for the decentralized way of trading bitcoin and get scammed more.

in the end this is temporary, it may last a couple of years but eventually we will see a uniform regulation instead of "fear" of bitcoin.

that is not how bitcoin works and I can not think of a way that this can work, I would love to see a system that works this way though.
besides if you want to do a change like this, you have to basically rewrite bitcoin and kind of fundamental change will never happen.

first of all the difference is that if we have gigabyetes of block only a handful of super servers can run bitcoin nodes instead of individuals on their personal computers and that will centralized everything.
secondly it is not only about privacy, it is also about censorship resistance. with a centralized system, those servers can force anything they want on you and you will not be able to do anything about it. for example they can decide transactions that come from your "account" are illegal and ban you. effectively that will lock your funds up. or they can ask $100 fee per transaction to be paid to them separately. you can't do anything about any of that because there are no other nodes. there are only these servers and they decide the rules.
and that is just some of the examples off the top of my head.

first of all that is not something you can do with a silly campaign, the biggest one took place recently and was called "proof of keys" which was encouraging people to withdraw from exchanges and keep their coins out of them... long story short nobody listened.
as for the price, technically if you do something like that you are effectively telling people to stay out of the market so price should not move at all because there is nobody left to buy or sell.

they use consistent transaction fees because the network is pretty much calm and there has been no spikes so everyone who is using the same system for fee estimation is going to be paying the same amount of fees. it is not related to being an exchange or not.
if there were a spike in number of transactions you will see them pay a higher fee automatically.

there is no reason for the price to rise up just because of block reward halving! so no there is no "hope" for that event to save you from anything. bitcoin doesn't need saving anyways, it is a decentralized payment system that is working more than fine every day of the week and for the whole world. and because of that it will continue rising up in price not because of some arbitrary event such as block halving which is mostly a hyped up event and partly related to supply distribution and eventually price.

bitcoin will because it is useful and it has a cap.
but a coin like ethereum will never be able to reach its ATH simply because the only usage of it is to be an ICO platform which is dying, and it doesn't have a cap. it already is unlimited so it can not rise in the long run even though it will see pump and dumps.

there is nothing boring about a stable price, at least not for bitcoin. and as for altcoins not all of them are stable. we already have a lot of pump and dumps going on which if you were a trader you could make a lot of profit from.

both of these statements are your guess and you never explained why you think that way. for example why do you think that rises are going to take 2 full years (starting from the beginning of the drop until next 11 months)? that simply is impossible, it is too long.

weak hand newbies are already flushes out. so your logic doesn't make much sense to me.

you should never change strategy based on what other people tell you. specially not based on something as vague as your poll here!

if you really believe that then you shouldn't be wasting time and you should already be accumulating regardless of what others tell you.

not necessarily. we may see a manipulation attempt to lower the price but it may not last there and we may instead see a shoot up instead.

that is exactly my first point here. you shouldn't care about what others say, most people will either troll you like the $20 or give you their wishes!

but there is a reason number 0 which supersedes all of these and it is the fact that price has never declined during the Lunar New year so everything else you said here is simply false.
the thing is, every year people start the same thing about it. they claim that people sell their bitcoins during this particular time and then they sit around waiting for the drop they "guessed" is going to happen, to happen. but it never does. sometimes price goes down for other reasons which makes them believe they were right!

that is simply bullshit.

all you can say is that Mt Gox selling bitcoin on the market could have intensified the bear market and possibly even pushed the price lower than it could have normally gotten to but you can never say they "caused" it.
a bear market is an inevitable part of any market that will happen regardless of who sells and who doesn't just as a bull market is a part of this market.