Quote from: illodin on July 31, 2014, 01:40:19 PM

Quote from: Ozziecoin on July 31, 2014, 01:34:27 PM

Quote from: Freckleg on July 31, 2014, 01:22:57 PM

The possibility someone is able to ddos a lot of the master nodes, and has the funds to run a lot of them them selves is highly unlikely or even impossible.

A more feasible scenario is someone setting up 5000 nodes at once... Oh wait there aren't enough coins for that ;-)

This is right. Pretty difficult to take down 900 MNs in the network. There are protections built into the standard satoshi client.

Difficult yes, but not impossible. Obviously this is only a concern against powerful three-letter-acronyms and police states. There's no such thing as being overly paranoid when it comes to privacy.

I believe bitcoind is very DDOS resistant and so is Darkcoin as a consequence. Not sure about monero however. Wink