Do you code or know any cryptography at all? All of Fluffypony's points were valid concerning the abundant flaws found in Darkcoin. It doesnt matter if such an attack is practical, its that its possible. If the government wanted they could easily take control of every single darkcoin masternode online, which is 90%+ of them.
Another strange post.
- He made a fundamentally flawed argument around Darksend transactions and change addresses, which was corrected
- He listed all kinds of security requirements (DR infrastructure?) for masternodes which are simply not required by the design
- Every single darkcoin masternode online would be 100% of them. By definition, a darkcoin masternode has to be online to be a masternode.
- Whether a single government could take control of 100% of them is highly questionable. Support your argument.
- Online as in hosted online, not necessarily on an external server, used the wrong words there
- Taking control of 100% of nodes online, especially since most of them are hosted on places like Amazon, would be an extremely easy task, it wouldn't even cost the government any money
You're acting as if it's secure to host nodes online that deliver something as crucial to the network as darkcoins coinjoin "anon feature". Heads up, it's not. I'm even actually having a hard time thinking of a "decentralized system" less secure than darkcoins masternodes.