What people forget is there is far too many wealthy people invested in Bitcoin for the 51% to be viable. Anyone who is invested in Bitcoin would fight back if it became a problem. Its true that we've already had one entity with more than 50% computing power but it wasn't a problem because they didn't use it for malicious purpose. However if they did it would be quickly obvious and the balance would change very quickly as those invested in Bitcoin turn their computing power on to combat it. 51% isn't viable with a small investment it would probably cost millions to sustain control of the network. You would literally be taking on the whole network and everyone invested in it. Multiple pools combining their computing power to be a vast majority of the network would be a concern and would cost both sides millions to combat. I know it would be bad for the network and would cause instability in the price but it would be interesting to see the both sides battle it out. What could be a problem is when quantum computers come along and the network is attacked.

I don't think it was a difficulty thing but rather the message existed. I'm not sure when the message was first discoered because the forum doesn't yield any results when I search for it. But I think a few people were talking about it back in 2013. I think the OP is wrong and the code was cracked at a earlier time than 10 years. Bitcoin was created in 2009 and therefore the date would have to be 2019 so I am 100% sure that the code wasn't discovered recently. I think it did take a few years for someone to notice though.

This is complete speculation on theymos part and yours though. There is no real reason for us to think that posts contained his real name or address. That doesn't sound like Satoshi at all and its much more likely that the posts contained test posts such as "test" or "hello world" to test the forum software. I know people like to jump to exciting conclusions and discuss conspiracy theories but lets have a look at the facts here. Satoshi started the forum with the name Satoshi which he intended on keeping as his identity. Google search results show no usernames on other sites that are even close to it. We know this because experts in the field have already researched into this. Do you really think someone as privacy conscious as Satoshi would put his identity on the forum? I don't think so not even for a minute. It was far more probable that the first posts of the forum were of low content and for testing purposes. The current first post (number 4) makes sense as a introductory to the forum because current members will always be interested in the first post of the forum. Just look at the merit received by the first post and you will see that people do check these things.

If it gets stolen then they can't get access without knowing the credentials. Although you can still recover your wallet if you have made a back up of the seed which is provided when you first create a wallet on the Ledger.

Although you should probably still make sure you don't get it stolen 

Faucets are normally legit but really you don't get a lot from them it's literally nothing and in a few years it's still not going to be worth anything.

I don't understand religion. Religion doesn't tell you to go and kill anything person or animal in fact it tells you the opposite in that you should not do any harm to anyone. Yet they kill in the name of religion.

Ips can be spoofed and you know that. It's very easy to create an account on your original IP and then start using Tor or a VPN later down the line. Your right you probably don't own a lot of them anymore because you've sold them.

If they were hacked and you were obviously making money on them why wouldn't you try and recover them?

At the moment even if you combined all of the alt coins on the market they wouldn't make up to Bitcoins current userbase or price. Bitcoin is still number one at the moment.

I think why it's not becoming mainstream and will struggle to do so is based on how difficult it is to understand the ins and outs of the technology.

Hackers can easily be avoided by using a paper wallet especially if you are just holding. I'm concerned about my country making the currency illegal or taxing it very high though

There will be a massive injection of new millionaires and it should affect the price of fiat currencies.

Your going have to talk to an accountant if you want a legit answer and something related to your case.

It wasn't a test at all you used the accounts to abuse the system and then got caught so you made up the excuse of them being hacked.

Nothing against online dating in fact I just think it makes things easier and you don't have to go to noisy clubs

If an idea has already been done and is successful then you just need to improve on the idea and provide a better service.

Your loved one cheating on you has to be one of the most hurtful things especially if they are a long term partner and were doing it on the sly.

Escrow is unlikely to test the program out though and you should consider giving vouch copies to trustworthy members.

Get the private key from blockchain.info and import it into bitcoin core and sign a message.

Corrupt government. Look at places like africa and the like and you will see poverty because the government isn't investing in it's country.

I don't believe in murdering someone for what they have done if they have murdered someone then you are doing the same. they should just be locked up for life.