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There are still risks, we were talking about the risk of the project not taking off.

But let's discuss your risk analysis:
1. and 2. are still risks
3. possible, low probability, but that does not mean Bitcoin goes away. Even if it flips over, there will be people that want to stay in Bitcoin. When countries introduced instant payment and better "distribution qualities" of fiat, there still were enough people who held to gold, just because they trust it more.
4. that is a risk of something that will happen, but that will not kill bitcoin as a project. There is now enough hodlers that they will just play in their own sandbox regardless of splits.
5. This is similar to 2. Yes, it's a risk, but not to bitcoin, but to its users. Market will react with better security solutions.
6. Outlawing is not a risk to bitcoin, but to some users. There are many countries where bitcoiners can flee to and they will have mean to do it. It will also show how the use-case of bitcoin (free movement of capital and self custody) works and solves this problem for users. Bullish (not necessarily for price, but for use-case, what Bitcoin is for).
7. that will certainly test Bitcoin's antifragility, bullish.