Dear @practicalthought

Amazing comment. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me.

I paid taxes for last year on the Steem I earned. I will do so again this year as well. I

Ehm ... aren't you losing so far on your investment in STEEM? If you convert it to fiat then you surely invested more than steem would be worth now.

I know many believe that crypto is the means to escape their control.

So ironic. Crypto and blockchain will make it even harder to escape any sort of control.

ps. I've also noticed that you didn't post anything in a while. Hope you're not giving up on Steemit.

Yours, Piotr