I agree that Merit is an interesting project -- no doubt that it's the most interesting I've seen in the last couple months here in the ANN section.

But, for all of you that have said you are going to invest *ALL* of your BTC into it -- I must say that this is totally inadvisable.

You need to think of your crypto as a full portfolio.  Just like with your normal stocks, you want to have a high-risk group and a low-risk group of assets.

While Merit seems really good as far as new altcoins go, you should limit yours investment to something reasonable.