How is your post related to mine? How can we prevent quantum computers from decrypting bitcoin adresses by upgrading the hardware in the system?

If what you are saying is true that there is no way to implement a protocoll that is safe against quantum attacks, bitcoin is doomed. But I don't think that is the case.

If you want to read about encryption post quantum computers see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

But that has nothing to do with hardware upgrades in the bitcoin community

The government want's to protect the innocent people who are recruited by those who are involve with ponzi scheme, pyramiding, networking and these scheme is rampant in Asian Country and now that bitcoin is very popular they use bitcoin as a front to recruit people.

What you are saying is, why have any local forums at all?

Actually, why have a forum at all?  Creating a similar forum for me would really not be a problem, yes?  And another one for you?

There are a lot of Filipino Facebook groups that scam newbies. I got wary of this issue because one of my friend got scammed because he joined a "pool" but after a lot of promises the one that "pooled" their coins just vanished in an instant.

Please my Filipino friends, beware of FB groups because most of the posts there will just make you lose money.

I am pretty sure that the concerns about quantum computers disrupting cryptocurrencies is not about the hike in hashrate.

The way bigger risk is that quantum computers could decrypt the encryption that is used for adresses. If someone finds the private key to one large Bitcoin adress with his quantum computer, bitcoin will be worthless.

So the bitcoin protocoll must be prepared for such an attack before quantum computers are ready.

Nobody has mentioned in this thread that google captcha blocks the forum entirely for a billion people living in China. 

Likely this is important information to consider when choosing whether to force users to use a google service while accessing the site. 

When I wrote that statement, I was attempting to respond to Lauda's assertion that selling/trading merit was not clear from the forum rules.  Further, in the past month, I had been a little bit concerned that some members were being tagged with Red trust in terms of accusations of selling/trading/soliciting merit even though the rules were not clear regarding that conduct.

So, yeah, I attempted to point out a couple of statements by Theymos regarding trading/ selling or soliciting merit. 

I think that regarding merit sources, the rule is fairly clear that merit sources are prohibited to engage in any kind of behavior to sell or trade merit or to solicit such. 

However, regarding regular members, it seems that technically it is not against the forum rules to sell/trade merit; however, it still would not prohibit other members from giving negative trust to regular members who are engaging in such selling/trading or even soliciting of merit (maybe if soliciting rises to the level of "excessive begging?"). 

So personally, I believe that for regular members it still probably would not be a good idea to sell or trade merit or to attempt to do so through soliciting, even though technically it does not appear to be against any specific merit rule - but it could still attract negative trust because it seems like a dubious kind of behavior....

I think that Theymos's is specific comment about NOT focusing on merit trading/selling of regular members being a "rounding error" is valid too, because the initially distributed merit is going to run out, and therefore the initial distribution of merit does not add up to a lot of merit that would end up being abused through selling/trading. 

Therefore, it seems that it would be a kind of judgement call regarding how much selling/trading of merit behavior would justify giving negative trust.

I thought that initially Theymos had written something in the OP of the merit announcement thread about merit sources being prohibited from selling merit, but he seems to have reworded it and removed such language, but i am sure that he said it.

I agree.  But you are not going to get anyone to drop their coins right now because of it.

People do not care about the future.  They only care about right now.  

Shortsightedness must be an evolutionary trait. 

Why would it be any different than current, under the table cash transactions (which make up a tiny portion of labor)? Why would there not be a system where employers paid direct deposit to your wallet, but not before withholding the proper amounts and sending it to the govt in BTC?