Estimated 1 - 5% versus the Dash's insiders 33 - 50% or so...

Satoshi doesn't have a masternode scam to continue to print 33+% of the coins for himself.

Damn Satoshi, that instamine scammer has millions of coins!

Busking is different to tipping, and I can see someone playing music has different motivation to a blogger or someone with knowledge and skills worth sharing.

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they just want to be heard mostly and blow a creative load. Most musician want an 'audience', even if they're not paying, so there is an exchange of content for 'attention'. I can see this is not applicable everywhere, but with some other 'skills'  it might be. Some people just want to be heard, and if over time their 'tips' reach a certain level, they don't mind freeloaders.

edit: with busking everyone who pays attention to you gives you 'something', maybe that's the difference

For most indie musicians, the combined upsell and pay-per-song revenue lost from reduced discovery[21] is not compensated by the impoverishing revenue sharing earned from subscriptions[22].

[21] http://www.newsweek.com/ten-indie-musicians-weigh-music-streaming-debate-355298

[22] http://pages.citebite.com/k5i1n1i6s9bch

HYIP marketing.

I'm assuming you'd get other benefits from the Q&A, but there is an opportunity cost for you, and some free-riding from other readers. What I'm suggesting has a vibe closer to what a busking musician does. They're doing something for 'free' in public because they enjoy doing it, but getting paid is one of the goals. A good busker can make a living from it, and most are OK with some people not paying, but if nobody ever paid they'd probably do it far less, but still do it sometimes for the enjoyment factor and skill development.

Thanks for teaching me that term. I'm thinking a national security gag order can also compel the party to continue to spit out the pronouncements that no legal process has been served, because the gag order supercedes due process?

I have also contemplated that sort of conspiratorial angle, because as you say it doesn't make sense that Evan so blatantly snubs his nose to the numerous regulatory laws that he appears to be violating. Then again, perhaps the authorities don't prosecute these until they reach a certain size    Or maybe he just isn't that smart potentially combined with a criminal mindset that discounts/rationalizes away risk. Or maybe we are all hallucinating and wrong. 

Also I've read from a former SEC prosecutor that the SEC doesn't always do its job, and it more or less used only for hatchet jobs on political enemies or enemies of the State's absolute power.

In another case, appears to me that Indiegogo is violating its own Terms of Service and ostensibly securities law in the case of Rimbit.

warrant canary

I'm always amazed when someone sees a guy shouting obscenities at the bar while watching a sporting event and reacts with, "I don't get it, it's just a game?" That guy (the one tearing his hair out over a game) most likely lost a small fortune gambling and it might have been the straw that broke his overly-understanding-for-too-long wife's back or the one that will get his back broken by a less-than-understanding bookie.

In the cryptocurrency betting circle ,the game is never really over and one can spend years hoping their luck will turn around, however impossible the chances would look to an uninterested observer. My guess is that DE views your statements on synereo as a threat to his investment and that DE also believes that if he can discredit you that his luck will turn around. Why he doesn't get a new bag after reading the likelihood of a coin's failure is beyond me, but he may have timed it very badly and is unable to coop rationally with the loss "realized." He doesn't seem too rational, so this seems likely and would explain his obsessive behavior.

Problem is that maybe only the person who asks tips you and the rest just decide you've already been paid. The problem with that model is opportunity cost. I am not going to waste my time for $10 per Q&A answer, because my opportunity cost is potentially $millions (for myself, and $billions for society) and I answer for other reasons that pertain to me attaining that $millions goal.

follow your instinct  

Religion is not synonymous with dependence.

Matthew 7New International Version (NIV)
Judging Others

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, Knock

7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
The Narrow and Wide Gates

13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
True and False Prophets

15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
True and False Disciples

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
The Wise and Foolish Builders

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

28 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, 29 because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.