Darkcoin's Domination Posts

How to kill Darkcoin (without exploiting the code)

The process below assumes you do not advertise your actions, of course.

If you have a lot of money:
1. Buy a large amount of DRK, to create a large amount of masternodes.
2. Take advantage of masternodes' IP being clear text to DDoS those you don't own. Do it slowly to make it difficult to notice. Employ sockpuppets to spread the idea that it is "normal", masternodes have incentives to kill the competition to get more money. This is Darwinian evolution and free market at work and this is good for the DRK network because the survivors will be much stronger so the DRK network will be stronger. Congratulations, you managed to pass as the good guy while undermining the whole network. Social engineering is a thing.
3. The remaining masternodes are yours. To further hide your actions, allow some independant masternodes to survive and also slowly buy some new ones, to pretend the ecosystem is healthy. Start honeypotting the whole network.

If you are a government agency (compatible with "lot of money"), replace 1 with this

1. Issue a subpoena duces tecum (civilist countries have something similar) tied to a legal interdiction to ever mention the subpoena, also known as a "gag order" (FISA warrant, anyone?).

If none of these two scenarios apply, replace 1 with this:

1. a) Report US-based and/or US-owned MasterNodes to FinCEN, the FBI, and the SEC, assist them in shutting them down and seizing the coins held by their operators. b) Repeatedly DDoS MasterNodes at a particular ISP / datacenter until they change their ToS to not allow MasterNodes. c) Hack into a portion of the remaining MasterNodes and install a rootkit that watches for Darkcoin source code and modifies it when compiled (scary video about [url=http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6240_-_en_-_saal_g_-_201412271400_-_reproducible_builds_-_mike_perry_-_seth_schoen_-_hans_steiner.html#video&t=15]corrupting at compilation time, source code untouched[/url]) or just randomly crashes the daemon if they aren't compiling it themselves. This ensures that these daemons appear to be working to the operator, but they receive so few payments they may as well be offline.

This is all very surreptitious, because a. looks like The Man has got it in for Darkcoin, b. looks like the ISP is just being problematic, and c. is mostly undetectable. You can keep doing this ad infinitum to keep half the MasterNodes offline, and nobody will realise what you're doing. It'll look like the sort of attacks the community expects to come, and they'll rationalise it for you by loudly claiming that 1000 MasterNodes is good enough.

Notice c) is the only part in this whole post where you are exploit code (and not even DRK code).

See also:
* [DeboraMeeks's domination post](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1001642.msg10945706#msg10945706)

Sources:

* [davidlatapie's domination post](http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2nu9rg/darkcoin_anoncoin_shadowcash_monero/cmh5ekr)
* [fluffypony's domination post](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg10868260#msg10868260)
* [othe's domination post](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg10869229#msg10869229)