I think I'm in favor of hard-forking the network to make Darksend transactions completely free. So there will be no fees to track at all. Instead of the miners, they could pay either the masternode network (the one you connected to even), the development fund, foundation fund, etc. These payments would be passed to the masternode and could be cashed later to avoid timing analysis. Another upside to this is it's impossible to do in Bitcoin and the fees could be MUCH lower than 0.0125. Thoughts?
making things more affordable for the enduser is always a good idea.
But I don't understand, you want to make darksend transactions completely free, yet pass payments to the masternode network?
Are you talking about voluntary fees?
If something becomes completely free, doesn't this enable DOS attacks?
I have always looked at fees as some sort of DOS hurdle, so that it would cost a fortune to flood the network with millions of transactions.
Voluntary fees? No, but it would be much cheaper than it is now.
DOS attacks? We could have a masternode sign the transaction when publishing it. The distribution should be really even among the masternodes, so that would eliminate bloat. So if you own 1 masternode, you could publish 1 transaction every 2 days currently.