The fact that it also takes a loooot of money to buy all the nodes, which would make the price reach astronomical levels if done by a single entity like the NSA, also helps from a Game Theory perspective so that it can't really happen as the acquisition cost multiplies while an NSA-like player tries tries to obtain the remaining percentages of the MN network.
I think it's about time all the FUDstorm is buried with the masternode blinding where the MNs don't even know what they transact.
yes, we all want to see evil-k break the blinded testnet masternode thing.
a looooooooot of money. Aren't we in a world.... where.... the governments.... can just print money..... to buy.... masternodes?
I was hoping the DRK dev's ventures to bitcointalk would get him to comment on the intrinsic connection between network privacy and currency valuation that I discuss in the XMR v DRK thread, but I guess that concern still sits there, waiting.
Anyhoo, for those that are still interested in the original post subject (and are just coming into the conversation because this has been bumped like cah razy). I've compiled it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=979315.0