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legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®



thanks for the bump dude  Wink

best regards

You are losing the discussion dude. I can bump it myself again.  Kiss

A wise man once told me that if you have to tell people you are right, you're mostly wrong...

bump it!

best regards

I didn't say I am right (I am still waitingfor that), but I know fudters are wrong until proof are presented.

This is not about trolling harder, speaking louder, creating 1000 threads every day to FUD Dash. Facts, reasoning and proof, thank you.

Bump!
sr. member
Activity: 392
Merit: 255
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®



thanks for the bump dude  Wink

best regards

You are losing the discussion dude. I can bump it myself again.  Kiss

A wise man once told me that if you have to tell people you are right, you're mostly wrong...

bump it!

best regards

The funny thing is, when I said the 'idea' was for Monero to keep its attack-Dash threads bumped, you assumed I agreed that this helped Monero - lol. 

DOUBLE BUMP!!!! :d
sr. member
Activity: 514
Merit: 258
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®



thanks for the bump dude  Wink

best regards

You are losing the discussion dude. I can bump it myself again.  Kiss

A wise man once told me that if you have to tell people you are right, you're mostly wrong...

bump it!

best regards
sr. member
Activity: 392
Merit: 255
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®



thanks for the bump dude  Wink

best regards

Welcome! BUMP! Cheesy
legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®



thanks for the bump dude  Wink

best regards

You are losing the discussion dude. I can bump it myself again.  Kiss
legendary
Activity: 1470
Merit: 1000
Want privacy? Use Monero!
Tok, you should give that fungibility lecture to the guys who ripped off evolution--they could have just sent it to BTCe and that would have been the end to it.

I do enjoy how you argue with things i didn't say and don't actually refute things that I did say--neat trick. Did they teach you that infographic school?  Grin

But those are the rules, so here:

Until you can use math to disprove the validity of cryptonote transactions, you're just a word salad machine intent on using FUD tactics in a world ruled by cryptographers and mathematicians. Why don't you send GMaxwell your poster so he can hang it on his wall as a token of your unheralded genius after he takes his XMR address off his profile page. Listen up everyone, the cryptonote protocol was just broken by a poster, not math, a poster! Yes, you heard right. It wasn't the mathematicians or cryptographers who have looked over the code, but a lone man who had the insight to make graphics and quote himself with his brilliant, but not shared by anyone else, views of money. Listen up! Use a clear blockchain to buy drugs, sex, gambling, evade your taxes, send donations to political dissidents, buy your wife a dildo, or pay for your gay sons wedding, because Toknormal amateur economist said that opaque blockchains will never work because people are too stupid to trust math and won't ever trust what they can't see. Never mind that you would have seen evidence of cryptonote coins deflating or inflating  in number based on the code creating improper transactions, coin inflation and deflation that would be easily noticed and have exchanges and users screaming bloody murder, never mind all that, because some random guy declared himself an economist and says nobody will trust a system that is verified over and over and over again by math.

Your stupidity is exhausting.

I want to add the folowing to this:
the one this that can clearly be seen on the Monero blockchain is the mining of new coins. Also, the sum of transactions inputs and outputs (fake or real) match. So The monery supply is perfectly transparent. The transactions are opaque. A superb compromise imho Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 514
Merit: 258
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®



thanks for the bump dude  Wink

best regards
legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100

1. start here you lazy dasher--I joke, at least you're trying  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1001642.660

2. A little too public as i'm finding out.  Wink

1.- I'm not FUDing, so it's your work not mine. You are a regular of the thread (not me) so please summarize for our audience.

2.- Be my guest. As I always said, break it or shut up  Smiley


btw. I am still waiting a comment about this:

Attacking The Consensus System via Sybil attack
https://www.dashpay.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/InstantTX.pdf


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Edit: I think I found some real facts interesting in that thread  Cheesy

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That probability depends on every transaction using 4 rounds of mixing (not likely), as well as assembling a 100% complete transaction, which isn't necessary for an attacker to draw hasty conclusions.

yep, but if you do the calculation using just one round it's still a huge number of days.

As for complete transactions, I agree that's not included....but I was answering your 'gun in the crowd' point, which has a probabilty of near 1, which is astronomically different to the proabilities we're talking about here.

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It would be nice to know what are the average or most comonly used mixing rounds in a darksend, and calculate probability based on that. Or, even better, calculate attacker probability based on the minimum allowable amount of mixing, to establish a "worst case scenario" or baseline probability.

ok i'll do it then Smiley

with 15% of the network compromised and just one round of darksend per transaction the probability is 3.32526E-17 or .0000000000000000332526

mutiply by 1,000,000 for transactions per day (which is a really big number of darksend transactions, by the way):

.0000000000332526

and divide into 1 for number of days to get a complete transaction:

30072836410

legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1036
Facts are more efficient than fud
There are other methods of attacks, so addressing one attack does not address them all. I did comment on this above, but i think you responded as I was revising it, so you missed it. [1]

I'm researching the masternode list you linked me to earlier; it's more telling than you think. Thanks for providing it.[2]

[1] "There are other methods of attacks, so addressing one attack does not address them all" is like saying nothing.

Please be specific, then maybe I can help you or guide you  to someone who can help (or maybe you are adressing a new vector attack that we need to cover, that would be very welcomed!)

[2] Masternodes are public (for now), you are welcome!

1. start here you lazy dasher--I joke, at least you're trying  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1001642.660

2. A little too public as i'm finding out.  Wink
sr. member
Activity: 392
Merit: 255
Sad that so many people take these Trollero attack threads seriously, including Dash supporters.  Although I admit I did when they first started too.

The idea is (obviously) just to keep a thread bumped at the top of the alt-discussion board saying "Dash is a SCAM$(*&#@" or whatever, just like Monero is the only coin to keep a "speculation" thread bumped on the same board, with Generalize, Icebreaker (aka Eduardo de Castro Hashfast scammer / head Monero troll), G2M, debryune, wpalczynski, Smooth (Monero fake-core dev come mega-troll), FluffyPony (Monero lead-"dev" aka ex-journalist / Vertpay.com / MyMonero.com / PayBee.com / OpenRigs scammer), and all the usual trolls now in their 2nd year of posting the same tired garbage about 10,000 XMR pizzas and "it doesn't matter we are an unfinished-clone of Bytecoin and didn't add any features in 1 year and the wallet doesn't work because if you believe and troll hard enough, and ignore that it's a sh*tcoin-clone with zero development, Monero is the next Bitcoin!!!".  

Same as the other ~20 attack-Dash threads being pushed by Monero users/core-devs since Darkcoin implemented instant transactions and rebranded to actually take on Bitcoin thus leaving Monero with a big-empty "Anon-coin" bag.

Now Bytecoin has owned Monero, they are still here attacking their other competitors like Dash, one of the top alts with largest community and most unique development / innovation, while Monero's cut-and-paste wallet is now 1 year behind Bytecoin with no GUI / non-volatile blockchain, and they have got burned for it big time, but they don't care lol Smiley

Keep going Trollero®

legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100
There are other methods of attacks, so addressing one attack does not address them all. I did comment on this above, but i think you responded as I was revising it, so you missed it. [1]

I'm researching the masternode list you linked me to earlier; it's more telling than you think. Thanks for providing it.[2]

[1] "There are other methods of attacks, so addressing one attack does not address them all" is like saying nothing.

Please be specific, then maybe I can help you or guide you  to someone who can help (or maybe you are adressing a new vector attack that we need to cover, that would be very welcomed!)

[2] Masternodes are public (for now), you are welcome!
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1036
Facts are more efficient than fud

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/


This is not, again, about "believing something", this is a fact:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Use your fingers and count. I did.   Wink

This doesn't prove that they aren't being run on amazon servers--check the wiki on amazon server locations. Also, why are so many nodes not receiving transactions and others receiving so many? Are they being attacked already?  Wink

(citation needed)

Citation? Look at the list you linked me to--there are a lot of nodes with 0 transaction and lot more being run off of corporate servers that are most likely working with their local spying agency. Europe and America share spy data last time i checked. This is what i mean about trusting people to follow best practices--they don't.

ok, I really enjoyed our conversation. If you want to spread FUD (without understanding the basics of the masternode system and assuming some paranoic statements without any proof)  i'm out.

btw. I still waiting a comment about this:

Attacking The Consensus System via Sybil attack
https://www.dashpay.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/InstantTX.pdf



There are other methods of attacks, so addressing one attack does not address them all. I did comment on this above, but i think you responded as I was revising it, so you missed it.

I'm researching the masternode list you linked me to earlier; it's more telling than you think. Thanks for providing it.
sdp
sr. member
Activity: 470
Merit: 281
I don't agree that masternodes are a form of centralization.  Someone has already addressed that here, but I knew that there were half the number of nodes as bitcoin already. I heard it on a podcast.

Pre-mine and instant mine mimicks the haves and have-nots of the fiat world.  That is a big turn off.

I cannot address the cryptography issues because I am not a cryptographer. 

So, the "centralization" may be a perception issue.  That's my take on why nobody cares.

sdp

legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/


This is not, again, about "believing something", this is a fact:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Use your fingers and count. I did.   Wink

This doesn't prove that they aren't being run on amazon servers--check the wiki on amazon server locations. Also, why are so many nodes not receiving transactions and others receiving so many? Are they being attacked already?  Wink

(citation needed)

Citation? Look at the list you linked me to--there are a lot of nodes with 0 transaction and lot more being run off of corporate servers that are most likely working with their local spying agency. Europe and America share spy data last time i checked. This is what i mean about trusting people to follow best practices--they don't.

ok, I really enjoyed our conversation. If you want to spread FUD (without understanding the basics of the masternode system and assuming some paranoic statements without any proof)  i'm out.

btw. I still waiting a comment about this:

Attacking The Consensus System via Sybil attack
https://www.dashpay.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/InstantTX.pdf

legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1036
Facts are more efficient than fud

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/


This is not, again, about "believing something", this is a fact:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Use your fingers and count. I did.   Wink

This doesn't prove that they aren't being run on amazon servers--check the wiki on amazon server locations. Also, why are so many nodes not receiving transactions and others receiving so many? Are they being attacked already?  Wink

(citation needed)

Citation? Look at the list you linked me to--there are a lot of nodes with 0 transaction and lot more being run off of corporate servers that are most likely working with their local spying agency. Europe and America share spy data last time i checked. This is what i mean about trusting people to follow best practices--they don't.
legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/


This is not, again, about "believing something", this is a fact:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Use your fingers and count. I did.   Wink

This doesn't prove that they aren't being run on amazon servers--check the wiki on amazon server locations. Also, why are so many nodes not receiving transactions and others receiving so many? Are they being attacked already?  Wink

(citation needed)
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1036
Facts are more efficient than fud

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/


This is not, again, about "believing something", this is a fact:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Use your fingers and count. I did.   Wink

This doesn't prove that they aren't being run on amazon servers (or american or compromised server companies). Also, why are so many nodes not receiving transactions and others receiving so many? Are they being attacked already?  Wink
legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/


This is not, again, about "believing something", this is a fact:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Use your fingers and count. I did.   Wink
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1036
Facts are more efficient than fud

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:


Funny that the most of the places listed on the masternode list are locations of Amazon servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services

If you don't want me to think masternodes are being created on Amazon servers, you should tell your dash buddies to stop making threads like this:

https://dashtalk.org/threads/reubens-masternode-setup-service-with-amazon-ec2-one-time-fee.4441/

*Also there is more than one way to attack a cryptosystem.

Refute the above and we'll come back to the other stuff.
legendary
Activity: 1790
Merit: 1100
It doesn't matter if you have a guy on the moon as a Dev; you still have the masternode problem, which is too many are owned by too few and encouraged to keep the number of nodes at 1000. And the biggest holder is most likely Evan who can be easily be gotten to, and if even he couldn't be (or was out as a Dev), most masternodes are currently on Amazon servers--Amazon!--a company known to work with the NSA. And even if none of this were true, you still depend on humans to not do stupid things like run masternodes on Amazon servers--this is an inherent weakness in any system that requires human best practices to be followed in most cases. Why? Most humans are worried about themselves and their costs, not worrying about the network and the residual cost to everyone else--in short, some humans are selfish and won't care that the system breaks as long as they are getting there's, while other humans are ignorant of how their actions might break a network and will do so unknowingly--this is why good cryptosystems don't use things like masternodes.

Lets be honest, unless I actually do it or have done it, you will always weasel out of the argument with rationalizations that protect your investment in your head--there's no way for you to know that Evan or the majority of masternodes were compromised in all situations and that would be the start of the end for current Dash. Hell, the NSA could be gleaning transaction info off the Amazon servers right now and no one but Amazon and the NSA would know.

And this part isn't for Aleix; he's already made his choice and is intent on riding it till it sinks. Anyone who cares about their privacy should only have confidence in cryptosystems that are decentralized and do not depend on humans or humans following best practices to maintain their security/privacy. This is an easy rule that saves you from having to come up with infinite attack vectors for infinite solutions for a problem that will infinitely follow a system built in this flawed way.

Thanks for your answer.

I don't like a lot “general statements” like you did in your post. This is no religion or politics, so it should be based on facts.  

The only fact  that you use (this time to endorse your position) is false

The majority of the masternodes are not in amazon servers, and anyone can check it here:

http://www.dashnodes.com/index/masternodes/?sorts%5Bisp%5D=1&perPage=100

Let’s assume a large number are in amazon servers on in Evans hause, the probabilities of the network to be controlled are almost non-existent; you can check in the instant transactions white paper here:

Attacking The Consensus System via Sybil attack
https://www.dashpay.io/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/InstantTX.pdf

That was the easy part to refute, what i really liked was the “stupid humans” part instead of “automated systems” (like cryptonote, I assume).  You did your “general statement” so I will do mine Cool .

I will divide in 2: Development and maintaining the system.

Development vs. “stupid humans”

As I said before, Darkcoin was a crappy coin at the begining (february 2014) when Evan was trying to implement a system based on coinjoin. Then an user called “Anonymint” (something like that)  appeared in the thread criticizing really hard Evan’s approach. And after some weeks of discussion appeared the Masternodes concept.

So, Dash can evolve of discussion, and we really thank critical posts (like the post  now we are are building here). Because this helps to evolve.

2.- “stupid humans” vs. “keeping the system safe”.

I am just an “average joe” with very limited tech or english skills, i have only a degree in sociology, imagine lol.
In the Dash community we have people from more than 30 countries, with all possible technological backgrounds, lawyers, journalists etc.

A lot of people are running all kind of servers as a profession. They are the IT crowd of several big and small companies. Do I want a automated invisible system (like cryptonote) ruling my money? What I want people from South Korea, Russia, Hong Kong, Germany, Vietnam, India, etc. That in a daily base take care of the network, understand the problems and help to fix it.

And I repeat,  we use open source code (no back doors) and Dash has a ledger. The automated machines tend to break.  We broke Dash before and it will break in the future. We have the human resources to fix and improve it.

The day the NSA will take control of cryptonote coins (and they will, because they are like God using your parameters) they will monitor the invisible blockchain and noone will notice it.

Let me make a last statement about greed and participating in the Dash community. I don’t really care about making money. I am poor, but i don’t need a lot for living so I’m ok. For me (and for the people I know personally in the Dash community) this is about politics. This is about destroying the banking system, and building something better.

(excuse my grammar and vocabulary mistakes, english is my third language)
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