What is the best way to destroy bitcoin?

To be honest I don't really care where the hashes come from, I just think the more hashes the better security the network has.
Mystery miner is my only exception, though, because they have 1.3TH and don't accept transactions into their blocks, making just over 1/10 of all Bitcoin blocks without transactions.

If the Singles can be reprogrammed and used for any BOINC projects out there, that will be great.

Seriously, what if the developers decided to change the block hashing algorithm from double SHA-256 to something else (WHIRLPOOL or SHA 3 maybe)? doesn't it renders ASIC useless?

… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses

make it easy for us... Battery Technology?

Honestly, ordering some assassinations on the guys running major exchanges sounds a lot cheaper...

@ casascius - Thanks. I don't have the funds to spare to be buying Bitcoins for something like this yet but when I do I might try it. Are holograms / scratch-offs like you and others use hard to obtain?

@ Hexadecibel - I was thinking more along the lines of what this guy did, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52295.0 , but with a more artistic, money-like design.

Im happy to report I have bought recently 500 btc so far from wise bitcoiners at $4.50 USD
Im still happy to bail anyone else out at the quoted price of $4.50 as the price approaches $5.  

So long as we're throwing wild personal opinions around, here is my own. I don't believe that the military or government has any computer technology that is significantly more advanced than what we are seeing in known academic research laboratories and private research programs.  Even if they wera able to create a super-quantum computer, the advantage would be so short lived against the rest of the world following behind, I don't think it would even make sense from a budgetary and strategic point of view. I remember in the 90's there was a lot of speculation about the kind of incredible computer technology that the government and military must have had, because we were coming from a time when the highest technology traditionally came from government and military programs. That's not really true anymore, and it wasn't really true then either. As it turns out, the government did not have any computer technology that was superior to technology held by any number of academic and private institutions and I don't think this has changed, especially in these economic times. I think this idea is no different than the formerly widely held belief that the american military is so advanced and powerful that they would certainly walk all over any technologically inferior country like say, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan with no trouble whatsoever. It's all smoke and mirrors, anyone remember the Aurora aircaft? Off the top of my head the only project I can think of that succeeded in creating a super technology well ahead of the curve, was the Manhatten project, but even that supremacy was very short lived. Even the internet, their greatest and most successful endeavor, did not experience its renaissance until it was opened to public and private institutions. They simply cannot compete on their own aginst that open market, not anymore.

People are so much nicer and more intelligent here than on Reddit. I'm not sure if its because there are less 12-year-olds here, or just that people on this forum have already done lots of thinking on these topics.

It seems like reddit reaches a very wide audience, and this forum reaches a very smart audience.