Thank you for posting @vikx.
Well written.....informational....necessary.....post.
Will give it a go.
Yes...those in the western world are under pressure from the government as well......most are in the denial stage of truth revealed.
You did see that three privacy coins were in the top ten alt-coins recently.......interesting. Cheers.
And It's not fair!
Monero, zcash, dash(darksend), etc. - Many of these coins have nothing but anonymity! If you take away their anonymity - they are practically useless.
At the same time STEEM / Bitshares is a whole ecosystem of possibilities. Very wide area of use. I think this is a sleeping volcano :)