can an alphabet agency compromise a master node system and spy on a coin?

[Digital Drug Lord]

If the alphabet agencies bought 95% of all master nodes for a coin, could they spy on transactions from the network? For example, ABC coins offers privacy and all the bells and whistles, an alphabet agency buys %95 of nodes and now, they pretty much are the network

im asking because every new coin that comes out, is a node coin, and the node coins take miner rewards, but isnt a node centralized? A static IP somewhere?

[JaredKaragen]

If the alphabet agencies bought 95% of all master nodes for a coin, could they spy on transactions from the network? For example, ABC coins offers privacy and all the bells and whistles, an alphabet agency buys %95 of nodes and now, they pretty much are the network

im asking because every new coin that comes out, is a node coin, and the node coins take miner rewards, but isnt a node centralized? A static IP somewhere?

my cellular connection is dynamic;  but its bound to a static DNS....  not hard to make something appear and function as if it was static.

nothing is stopping them from controlling the nodes;  yes;  assuming they salt them across the internet physically.

[Digital Drug Lord]

If the alphabet agencies bought 95% of all master nodes for a coin, could they spy on transactions from the network? For example, ABC coins offers privacy and all the bells and whistles, an alphabet agency buys %95 of nodes and now, they pretty much are the network

im asking because every new coin that comes out, is a node coin, and the node coins take miner rewards, but isnt a node centralized? A static IP somewhere?

my cellular connection is dynamic;  but its bound to a static DNS....  not hard to make something appear and function as if it was static.

nothing is stopping them from controlling the nodes;  yes;  assuming they salt them across the internet physically.

So a node is totally unsecure because it can be compromised with money. And not only that once compromised makes every transaction unsecure because it can spy

[Agozyen]

I think this is why some coins are going with a different approach, something called a notary node system where the node holders are elected into the position.  This makes it much harder to compromise.  My understanding of notary nodes is limited so I may be wrong.