Why do you mention wifi piggy-backing? Isn't it possible to submit proof of work from mining over Tor, and consequently acquire a Tor-level of anonymity? Or is there a risk that a Tor exit node hi-jack

Steemit has changed in terms of free speech. free speech lost.

In all parts of the world I'm familiar with, that's impossible. $10 is often the min. price for prepaid service alone. If you consider the US, for example, you could walk away with a phone that is gratis

IMO you guys need to remove the "Free of Charge... no strings attached" line. The only way to get a gratis account is to compromise freedom and privacy. Lengthy rationale: How Steemit became

The ship won't sink, but the freedom-flag it was flying has been burned (months ago): How steemit became useless to freedom-fighters It became a ship that flies nothing but a big dollar sign flag.

$5 is extortionate. That's a weeks wage in some parts of the world. A moderate user (say 1 or 2 blogs/week) needs ~5-10 accounts just to get a basic level of anonymous identity division (thus upwards of

It's good to have the advanced user options you mention, but they sound cumbersome and impractical. Hundreds of thousands of participants are being forced into a position of having th buy their freedom

Asking users to disclose personal mobile phone numbers while also at the same time denying access to those who don't have mobile phone subscriptions is in itself both abusive to end-user security and elitist.

It wouldn't matter if the inflation slowing (what dan considers to be "harm") were disproportionate or not. If it's disproportionate, then the less CPU-intensive currencies (which are also more

There are many flaws in this idea. You have the implied premise that: A boycott could be hypothetically so effective it could sink Intel Impossible without governments of large nation-states and other

PayPal's business plan is not the rationale for the boycott. Have another look at why boycott Paypal if you haven't already. It's the repression of people's freedom and extreme neoconservative politics

PayPal is not going to be broad-sided by crypto-currency and then sink. They're probably working out how to a piece of the action as we speak, as this is fundamental to what corporations do. Consequently,

You don't need to boycott PP, just tell people to use Bitcoin or Steem Dollar. It's always amusing when someone says "sure I'll join the boycott because the competing options are better anyway".

That's nonsense. Proof-of-work and proof-of-stake are possible with any turing complete machine.

The boycotts do not target Trump himself. That would risk worsening Trump's behavior and performance even more, IMO. Those boycotts are aimed at a broad range of harmful neoconservative policy and direct

You have this idea that you can achieve an absolute.. that you can eliminate corruption entirely. It seems to contradict your idea that it's useless and futile to work toward an impossible/unrealistic

Indeed. But on the contrary, it's a shame that consumers are not considering politics when they spend their money. What they should be doing: Boycotting Paypal Boycotting Boeing and General Electric Boycotting

Canadians and Americans can still take some actions. In fact it's now even more important to vote with your feet when unsuitable people are in power. On inauguration day in DC, participate in the weed

Glad to see that the catastrophic white house restaffing is met with protest. It's even more important to vote with your feet when unsuitable people are in power. Specifically: Boycott Paypal Boycott Boeing

A similar case can be made for replacing cash notes with coins. Paper cash carries copious filth, sometimes very dangerous viruses like eboli. Coins are much less suitable for viruses (recently reported