Why are you not directing the same concern to the horrible centralisation that exists in is mining? There are no more than 3-5 people for most coins who, if they chose or were coerced, could ruin, at least temporarily, that coin. Including DRK - 3 pools make up >51% of the hashrate.

Miners in the form of big pools are several orders of magnitude more of a threat than Masternodes in the hands of a few, because Masternodes are chosen randomly each block from the whole set. Go do the math, or read any one of my many posts explaining it.

edit: If a random subset of miners were chosen each block too, that would do away with the mining centralisation issue... but so would making p2pool mandatory, or integrating pools and Masternodes... but nobody seems very interested apparently in addressing the great big fucking liability that mining in its current form presents.

This doesn't change the distribution of the network at all though.

If one person has enough for two MN's or ten, this just makes it easier for the person to setup.

They would still be required to have two or ten separate static ip's or dedicated servers for each MN.

Here's an analogy: if Bob has ten separate outlook email accounts, and receives email at all the accounts, instead of individually logging into each account to check his mail, he just makes an inbox with all account inboxes together.

The only thing this does it make it easier to check his mail but he still has the ten separate email accounts. No more or less email is being checked compared to logging into each account individually. Same amount of email for the accounts, only easier to check.

Im done splawik.. I could give you some rant but I wont. Lets just see what happens 

If a whale has that many coins Im sure the few DRK he'd earn from a masternode would not intrest him being it would tie up his funds to basically earn little. Then agian what the hell do I know basically very little

convoluted and retarded points are so very necessary sometimes....

I understand where you're coming from Icebucket and I do know how frustrating it can be to hold a view that no one seems to "get". But on this occasion I think the views people are expressing in response to you are pretty sound. You're expressing yourself like this feature allowing ease to start multiple MNs is somehow the opening of a pandora's box for massive centralisation and bulk acquisition of the MN network by just a few large coin holders that previously wouldn't have even considered running MNs. I don't think that's the case. It's an ease-of-admin feature that's hardly going to open flood gates and (purely by way of its release) suddenly result in the MN numbers rapidly doubling or tripling with the bulk of them now operated by just a few actors.

It's a good development to help strengthen the MN network by negating keying errors and problems during admin.

No, no, you don't understand! The world will come to an end if people who can't write their own scripts have just one command to run! Overnight there will be ten thousand Masternodes and I will have to live on dog food and rainwater and it never rains here! There will only be a trillion duffs left, this lack of liquidity will make my legs drop off and the market will collapse! Panic like fuck and shit your pants!

How come no one realizes his concern is simply about the fear of someone holding, say, 40% of the MN network on his own?

I agree, but just look at Camosoul for instance, HE said he would finally setup MNs thanks to the new system, and that he did not do it before because of the extra hassle. That might have triggered his reasoning.

So Icebucket is not COMPLETELY wrong either, is he?

I'm not concerned as he is about all this, I'm just a bit frustrated that so very few (only you and a couple others) understood his concerns over 2-3 thread pages


EDIT: And even if it's absurd to bring it now, no one answered why it's no big deal if someone owns, for instance, 45% of the MN network in the last pages. This would have solved any and all discussion.

I think this is an appropriate time to repost. It's just so pretty.