The only thing I've heard of that has worked for anyone has been disabling any virtual disc drives on the system.   I've even heard people have success after disabling their hardware disc drives.

With lots of help, I have been able to create a web wallet with some funds built in for registration purposes.  If you are currently unable to open the wallet due to silly windows issues and just want to play, or need funds to register an account to withdraw from bter feel free to use it.  Theres about a dollars worth of BTSX on there.  Please only take what you need to register your account.  about .2BTSX.  Or replace what you take.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6122.msg81960#msg81960

I was in the middle of syncing my blockchain after updating the wallet. I assumed it had gone through.  Resent.

With lots of help, I have been able to create a web wallet with some funds built in for registration purposes.  If you are currently unable to open the wallet due to silly windows issues and just want to play, or need funds to register an account to withdraw from bter feel free to use it.  Theres about a dollars worth of BTSX on there.  Please only take what you need to register your account.  about .2BTSX.  Or replace what you take.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=6122.msg81960#msg81960

You are 100% correct.  A better way of stating it would have been paying for their hardware/electricity/bandwidth/time.  I believe delegates should be compensated at whatever level the market will bear.  The point I was trying to make is that my preference is for private individuals that return excess fees to the users, rather than delegates run by public teams or corporations, that use fees to spend towards projects. 

Sent.  Sorry it took me a bit.  Was stuck at work.

I have personally run a delegate through tor, and sent transactions.  Support is not currently built into the client so I had to build the client in whonix to get multiple connections open at the same time.  I am not a tor expert, but to the best of my knowledge DPOS could scale through tor just fine.  Some delegates are running their nodes on their personal networks, and some have rented server space.  Its impossible to be sure how many actual individuals there are in the top 101 delegates, but I just looked through, and it appears theres around 40-50 different individuals.  I personally would like to see 101 different individuals spread out all over the world keeping only the fees needed to pay for their hardware/electricity/bandwidth and returning the rest to all shareholders.  Others have different ideas.  Some would like to see delegates keeping more of the fees and reinvesting those fees in the ecosystem.  Some picture delegates being professional teams, with different stated goals and perhaps running multiple delegates per team.  The beautiful part is that it is up to the actual users of the token to decide. 

As far as DPOS being co-opted by the government, I don't think thats a likely possibility.  The gov thugs would never give up their ability to inflate at will to fund the welfare/warfare state.  If their spending and inflation was on a blockchain and had an immediate impact on the purchasing power of other tokens, they would not be able to spend a tenth of what they currently do.

Send me your public key and I'll send you enough to register.  Then you can purchase from an exchange.   There is a plan for a faucet, with free registration, but its not out yet.

Sent.  Have fun man.