So why 20% fees for masternode payments? This essentially will create twice as many nodes and create a much higher cost to spy on the network. It also creates a larger feedback loop for the price (because as darkcoin is taken out of the supply, it drives the price up), which is good for all of the investors and security of DarkSend. Miners will get less coin, but it's been proven time and time again that when you decrease the coins generated the price will just go up to meet the cost of mining.
Avoid multiple tickets for masternodes. It will reduce number of nodes making the system less resilient.
No! Forcing people to manage over 2 dozen separate boxes only generates orders of magnitude more opportunities for human error. Too much of a good thing. I'd rather have one node hardened as hell becasue it's holding a million in DRK. Watch to see how often a node gets elected to know how much is in it.. Only adds that much more incentive to make sure people are securing the nodes and thus securing the network. We've already got somebody who was sloppy enough to get robbed... Maybe they'll start taking it more seriously when they can put 50,000 drk in one node, eh?
Maintenance-wise it's a no brainer. 1 beats 50 every day. But for network centralization and resilience, no. You can't have both. It's binary. Either one or the other. And 50 is always more decentralized than 1.
Think of the DDOS vector: If someone wanted to take all the payments to their nodes, they'd only have to DDOS a very few number of multi-ticket masternodes. And fuck the payments, if they wanted to map transactions, they'd only have to bring down the honest nodes and keep online the bad actors. Their job is far easier in this way.
Point taken. But we're not talking about consolidating holders. You and I will not pool our DRK and make a node. You'll run yours how you see fit and I'll run mine as I see fit. If my 50,000DRK node gets DDoSed, then that's 50 entries you don't have to contend with for an hour or so. Do I care when I'm getting 50 entries while I'm NOT getting DDoSed? My bigass node is just one node. The network will be glad to see me disappear for a while. ;-)
As with government scrutiny in other places, I love being the big shiny target they can't really hit. It lets all the other people scurry around unnoticed... If I'm pulling odds on 50 entries a block, and get DDoSed for an hour or so, I don't care, and that means everyone else can relax, while also getting better odds...