then its a good thing Monero has a hardfork schedule in place, I assume it could be invoked in emergencies such as an indentified quantum attack is in place and a known remedy can be implemented.

it is good to be prepared but I think it will be a while before we have to worry about that

Some questions, with upfront apologies for not searching the thread for answers:

Re the current blocksize debate now creating a duststorm in the bitcoin world - is there a similar blocksize controversy in monero's future? 

Oversimplifying one aspect of the debate - centralization - if the next 3 to 5 years see a destruction of the decentralization of bitcoin, is monero in a position to observe, learn, and survive, or will monero be swept away by the same forces of centralization (in the event monero becomes the "alpha coin" after the demise of bitcoin)?

tl;dr    If centralization destroys bitcoin, will centralization inevitably destroy all cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency is not necessarily an end state, it can also be a process: I have enjoyed a great increase of freedom in my life through cryptocurrency, and I don't place a great emphasis on which particular crypto has done it in which year. In my own thinking, the "spirit of silver" moved to Bitcoin, and later to Monero, and may move on. Each move any more, is not a disruptive but incremental change - I still own more value in physical silver than Monero, for instance. All the previous stages of innovation serve as backups should the latest one end up "being forked".

The cutting edge cryptography will be tried in the high end projects first, and the trend towards fragmentation of the virtual assets sphere is also there. 2 years' slaughter has not killed any even remotely legit alts, for instance. This is an indication that in the future, you can own a myriad of virtual assets secured or unsecured by cryptography; accessed publicly, pseudo- or anonymously; and allocate your portfolio between them without friction.

It's more of a rough concept, no specific design, no code, etc. We'll see how it looks once some details are worked out, but there is potential it could work.

I've been on the latest Windows beta for ages now, have done quite a few transactions, no issues at all here.
On exit, the daemon looks to have a wait right after stopping some network function. I don't ever need to type exit 2 times. I just type exit once, then after a few seconds, I just hit enter again.

My first report on 0.9 beta release

+ Windows 7
+ Sync from start to block 797721: take more than a day
+ Database size after sync-ed: data.mdb 9,437,187 KB (9.4 GB) (block 797721)
+ Memory:

   Private Working Set): 21,277 KB (21 MB)
   Commit Size: 109,880 KB (109 MB)
   Working Set: 38,040 KB (38 MB)

+ Startup time: About 2 seconds
+ Exit time: About 3-5 seconds

Huge improvements over 0.8.8 release!

Did you set the bandwith limit? I think the default is 1 mbps still.

Anyone running any of the GUIs with the latest non official DB version of Monero?