If bitcoin was dead then so would this forum be and those people wouldn't even be posting here.
False, if it is dead, you can expect that there will be a huge rampant over this forum since this is the only place where most people discuss about
BTC and nowhere else
If one day government take a full control of bitcoin which is never done before, no matter what you do you must pay the taxes, even if you object it rules is rules you must obey it.
They cant and they wouldnt. Logic is why trouble themselves with a currency that might give a danger to their own currency .
Bitcoin is not anonymous
Indeed, it is actually pseudoanonymous. Anonymous is actually a Yes though if you would compare it to traditional bank where each sender and receiver will have their real name on the transaction list, with
BTC you can do it without having your real name to be revealed