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You need to check if your wallet supports the bip.

You can store your bitcoins in a local wallet on your computer which would be relatively safer. Other options would be to convert it to fiat currency or alt coins.

Yes some are buy ltc I believe.

Yes once BTC prices hit the bottom, it would be a good entry point into alt coins but i believe it would have to be a long hold.

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