I was contemplating the financial effect of masternodes in terms of fractional inflation that Bitcoin might be subject to. Exchanges tend to be a parking place for a large number of coins which can lead to MtGox situations where the exchange is actually transacting with non-existing coins (something like fractional banking)... by transacting with non-existent coins, the demand is reduced for actual coins (=bad for price). The same might apply to payment processors where they can do away with cryptos if a client only cares abouf fiat.
The incentive to pull 1000s of DRKs into DarkSend nodes will significantly reduce the parked DRKs and the ability of third parties to make fractional practices with DRKs that they do not own, which is good for the price. At the same time, risk exposure to hacked exchanges that lose hundreds of thousands of coins will also be reduced as the coins parked will be less. However there is the individual risk of each running node to get hacked, so this needs to be very well thought out. 100 nodes running = 100k DRK bounty for hackers.
It'll be an interesting experiment for sure...
The incentive to pull 1000s of DRKs into DarkSend nodes will significantly reduce the parked DRKs and the ability of third parties to make fractional practices with DRKs that they do not own, which is good for the price. At the same time, risk exposure to hacked exchanges that lose hundreds of thousands of coins will also be reduced as the coins parked will be less. However there is the individual risk of each running node to get hacked, so this needs to be very well thought out. 100 nodes running = 100k DRK bounty for hackers.
It'll be an interesting experiment for sure...
And a scary one, I'm scared. I think everyone should be scared. Scared enough to take this seriously
