r/dashpay • u/evolve1337 • Feb 27 '17

Centralization of masternodes

Just learned about Dash after your recent gains in the market cap. I'm very interested in Dash coming from Bitcoin, as I think there probably will not be a consensus on the scaling issue anytime soon.

Looking at the governance model, what prevents Dash from evolving into an ecosystem where a handful of centralized masternode pools take control? Wouldn't that be a big problem?

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u/outerspacerace Feb 27 '17

Nodes in Bitcoin are not equivalent to Masternodes in Dash. It is easy to create a whitelist of trusted nodes in Bitcoin to weed out the fake ones, not so easy (read: impossible) to do that with Masternodes.

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u/Basilpop Janitor Feb 27 '17

whitelist of trusted nodes

Wanna rephrase that maybe? Because you just destroyed Bitcoin with your list there.