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    November 21, 2015, 09:52:16 PM

    1 is false. It's not equally as decentralized because you need a public IP address. People are using shit like Vultr to run their MNs, not running them from their houses.

    Well, first I'd say we have to note that decentralised logic and decentralised hosting are two concepts which have nothing to do with each other.

    I agree that - from a network redundancy point of view - a greater level of hosting redundancy is achieved if there are fewer co-hosted clusters. For example if half the nodes in the world are hosted on Amazon and the Amazon's entire service goes down across the board, then that will take out half the nodes until such time as their holders get them back up somewhere else.

    But remember the masternode's existence is not particularly dependent on the host, it is dependent on the collateral address. A 'downed' host cannot knock out a masternode for any significant length of time because it only hosts an "instance" of the masternode and it can be "re-instanciated" anywhere, anytime.


    Remember, I'm not worried about Amazon going DOWN. I'm worried about them being forced to give access to the government.

    What I'm looking at is if DASH becomes huge - if it really becomes an anonymous currency used by the masses. I find the idea of the government secretly being able to undermine the security of what is believed to be secure against them distasteful.
    There is a possibility that a government could try to block Dash ports or IPs.  Of course, that would be difficult in every country at the same time.  There has been testing using tor/.onion addresses for nodes and I see that as the long term solution if big brother feels like playing that game.

    Also, I think there is a plan in place to identify MNs from something other than IP address, like the initial hash, the MN private ip, or an entirely new hash.  It would at least be hidden on the network.  Is there a way to sniff this stuff otherwise?  I mean, can packets be followed back to their source if no IP address is used?

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