Yes, "node" is just a tool for those, who constantly had problems with deamon.

You can use MyMonero, or only Simplewallet with Moneroclub-Node, or install both Wallet and Daemon.

Currently node has only one daemon-node, in beta-test. Getting of blocks works and sending of transactions as well.
Similar to mymonero with just using common wallet.

Additional nodes will be added soon on other dedicated servers for failover.

Regarding security - I added Moneroclub node to ForkGuard.

In addition, node doesn't known your private keys, so that is impossible to do something with your balances.
Your simplewallet sends already signed transactions.

Other thoughts already written by fluffypony and smooth

@Atrides,
A couple of odd elements I just noticed trying out the platform:
 - there's no edit/cancel feature yet for one's existing offers.
 - the % relative to MoneroIndex is always positive, ignoring if the offer is a sell or a buy.

I created a couple of test entries, but I want to edit them, not interested in going broke just yet 
All in all, great initiative. It's all baby steps forward as they say.

I'm intuiting here, but I suspect that a malicious open node to which you connect to all the time can build up a history of outputs from your broadcast tx's, and couple that with a determination of your "true" signature on inputs, to effectively deduce as much information as knowing your view key would reveal. The only useful advantage then would be that you can stop using a remote daemon and it won't know your transactions in perpetuity.

Knowing your true outputs is as simple as looking at the inputs to transactions you broadcast and excluding the mixins it gave you.

The difference between that and view key is the former does not reveal outputs that haven't been spent yet (nor future outputs as you said)

Some of this could be avoided by the wallet connecting to multiple nodes. If you obtain a bunch of mixins from each of several nodes (which can be cached and used later to avoid correlating the timing) and only use some of them, I don't think any of the nodes can ever be sure which are your true outputs, although I haven't analyzed that carefully. A wallet would have to be coded to work this way (simplewallet doesn't).

Very nice, where you have "all currencies" please replace with "all supported currencies", this is far from a complete list. Lol

Not if there is an open source that accomplishes the same thing just with less functionality.

Or as I recommended, A closed source wrapper.

Think about the ramifications. Do you have any clue how many shit coins will pop up and stuff this into their inferior code thereby diluting the waters and monero devs will have done the work and the coin will not reap the rewards.

Speaking of which, is there anyway to get on coinbase?

When retards throw 3k BTC on vaporware you should see that is the holy grail. You Don't think those scammers won't ICO a fork as soon as it's released? They are just sitting back drooling waiting to swoop in and reap the rewards of this teams hard work. MARK my words. I have a penchant for foresight.

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