BTW, how can the data of the internet be passed through 1000 masternodes without clogging things up? Is that even remotely possible? I'm not technical, so I'd appreciate any insight. Thanks

+1 !
I've been wondering this as well. The potential bandwidth of a DRK "TOR" seems collosal and I would have thought that 1000 masternodes would be saturated in minutes.
Hopefully someone can explain.
Demand and supply.
That's the reason for creating a home for adult content and making people pay to be on it, search engines to pay to crawl it, adWords to profit from it.
1,000 master nodes is myopic (litteral definition - no offence meant).
Lets say several thousands, all with nice big pipes for extra bandwidth.