Wow... He nails the demographic and exactly what I've been thinking of most of the people in the crypto space.  Angry white libertian conspiracy fueled males... and that businesses have lag behind.   Great article Ghost player. Thanks for the irc tip as well.

Without a centralized reference node to enforce a round-robin schedule, masternode owners must accept statistical variance in their payouts.

This will cause no end of complaints from the less lucky ones.

If you own dozens or hundreds of MNs, it won't be noticeable, but those with one or two will notice significant periods of no or low payouts.

I thought everyone understood variance is part of crypto, whether mining using PoW or PoS, so I'm not sure why the ref node was ever thought to be a good idea.  Once people get used to it, good luck taking it out.

I think DASH types are less sophisticated than almost any other community, so the ref node is there as training wheels for the HYIP kiddies.

Of course this will end in tears, whether because of spork enforcement exploits, reference node spoofing, or THE DARKCOIN FOUNDATION INC's failure to comply with FATCA and a million other laws/rules/regulations.

DASH isn't any more secure than the copy protection on an MMORPG.  If any serious crackers so much as glance at DASH, it will melt into a puddle of fail.

Hi vertoe!

I'll hire you to write more about the "fishy" things going on with DASH and THE DARKCOIN FOUNDATION INC.

Please tell us exactly how their centralization reaches "deep into the code."

If you want to sell dirt on DASH, I'll buy it by the truckload.  And if it destroys that scam, I'll also donate to the CacheCoin dev fund.

"Unfair?"

Payment variance in mining, whether PoS like DASH or PoW like Monero, is completely fair.

Everyone has an equal chance to get a payment, which is the definition of fair.

Confusing the concept of fairness with the concept of equality is a rookie error.

What is not fair is the reference node's priority schedule.

We've already seen it have to start at the beginning of the list because, oops, it was reset.  How nice for those at the top of the list...  

BTW, keeping the reference node around as a "backup" still retains the massive attack surface it entails.

The "hybrid state" is the worst of both worlds: "unfair" payment variance AND another feature to exploit.

Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill.
A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what
they've understood throughout their lives.

Chuck D

its not too late to start taking that first step towards climbing that mountain Eduardo,
it will be one small step for you, one giant leap for trollkind.
 

Gal, get your strutting boots on and start showing out for the weekend!
https://youtu.be/tuMgJrFoAFY

To be fair, He wrote "Angry white libertian conspiracy fueled males". You just take the second and the sixth word, and then call it an unfair (i.e. racist) generalization. It could be argued that it's you who is doing the generalising :-)

BTW: "Angry white male" is a standing expression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_white_male

Now as bad as SDC... Wow. 

If you want weekend listening and an original take on world economics try some Jim Willie,
https://youtu.be/biNaI-frR8A
''Lower Oil Price Crushing World Economy''

Says world opting out of US treasury notes and the dollar and that US importers will not be able to pay their bills soon unless its priced in Chinese Renminbi ..

If you look carefully at the bitcoin block size chart here,
https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

You will see that the trend is slightly exponential and accelerating, meaning it is not a linear straight line, so the size is NOT tracking Moore's Law.
Assuming a doubling of hard drive capacity every 18 months and a doubling of the blocksize every 12 months (2.05 times precisely), the conclusion is there will be hard drive capacity to blocksize divergence.



Taken to the extreme, when the storage size reaches physical atomic size scaling limitations, this will indicate the final breakdown point ..