Just in case anyone actually pays attention to that abrasive person who keeps yelling "centralized reference node!"
If that person had bothered to actually READ tantestefana2's post (or at least performed one iota of research) he would understand that Dash still works even without the reference node. All it does is make masternode payments less random and more regular. Take away the reference node and they become more random and possibly more prone to exploit, but it still works nonetheless.
Gee, look what I found by simply googling "darkcoin reference node" and clicking the very first search result:
To only pay active masternodes, pay masternodes evenly and ensure that all pools pay the correct node and amount we’ve introduced a new type of node, the reference node. This node has a special key that allows it to tell the network which nodes get paid, on which blocks in the future. Anyone on the network can verify these nodes are doing their job (i.e. not tampering with the results) by running the code and comparing the payee’s due to the deterministic algorithm used. In case of DDOS or a service failure, the network defaults to paying random masternodes as it does now.
(furiously rummaging through pockets now to fish out .5 Dash for the troll jar...)Oh crap, I'm sorry for giving them something to chew on! I was trying to give a complete picture of where we are today and where we're going "why investin DASH". So they had all the info. I see now that it's a huge mistake, and I should just send them to DASHtalk.org. I wanted to be helpful to one person, and for all I know, they could have been a troll as well.
I'm seriously sorry about that!