Darkcoin's masternodes is a centralization risk. Masternodes run on servers, servers are centralized, meaning masternodes are centralized and are a risk to the network. Even if masternodes are kept offline, there's an even higher chance of losing the masternode due to human error, accident, etc.
You actually make zero sense. Welcome to the growing ignore list.
Yea, it doesn't make any sense to say that hosting a node on a
centralized server, means that node is now centralized as well?
Don't quit your day job.
You do know they [Masternodes] can be ran on a Pi right? maybe not
"Even if masternodes are kept offline, there's an even higher chance of losing the masternode due to human error, accident, etc.". It's unrealistic to even think that the majority of masternode owners would run theirs on a Raspberry PI. The majority of nodes for Bitcoin, which is the most popular cryptocurrency in existence, are not run on a Raspberry PI.
#logic
It's unfortunately also one of the most traceable cryptocurrencies in existence
That's true. However, Bitcoin in comparison is like an angel since it's basic parameters(Block reward, Max coin supply) has not been changed or cut, unlike Darkcoin's. Arguably, that's one of the defining points of a decentralized cryptocurrency, satoshi himself stated, " The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime."
Decentralization is all about general "equality", if a developer is left to make all the changes as he/she sees fit, it's not decentralized(and especially if they did so from the beginning like Darkcoin's), it never was decentralized and never will be.