I mean, in sum…. Not really. Industrial mining is just huge and you’d need a *lot* of Bitaxe to make a difference. You can attend your local meetup and try to find miners/pool operators and talk to them about the issues they’re creating though!

If 500k of us do it probably would make a a difference

They’ve contributed a lot to the design of it, but sadly they don’t yet allow you to select your own transactions when hashing. Only DEMAND allows that as of yet.