- Online as in hosted online, not necessarily on an external server, used the wrong words there
you mean VPS, right?
- 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
this is a crazy statement. You think compromising 2,000 VPS instances across 30+ countries would be 'extremely easy' and '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.
No, I'm acting as if a distributed P2P system that runs on 1000s of lightweight nodes, across 30+ international borders, maintained on a variety of OS platforms, in a variety of hosting scenarios, that will still function if a large portion of it's nodes are compromised, is impractical to mount a successful attack against.