Just to make sure we are all on the same page, this is how the system currently works:

From dashninja:

A budget proposal is valid if the fee was payed and it was submitted to peers successfully.

A budget proposal is established when it is older than 1 day.

A budget proposal is alloted (will get paid on next super-block and is in the budgets projection list) when Yea votes minus Nay votes is more than 10% of total masternodes.


The system is designed to resolve controversy, the way it works the yeas in the proposal have to win the nays by at least 10% of the network.  If there is a polemic proposal where 10% of the network says No then you need at least 20% of the network to say yes for it to get approved for a total 30% participation. It self adjusts and I don't think this is well understood. Hope this helps.

There's no need to rush any vote if the budget proposal is planned correctly.
The only time constraints on a proposal's voting window are defined by the submitter.
It's perfectly valid to submit a proposal that starts getting paid at a later cycle(s).

In fact, I'd encourage future submitters to do just that, *especially* if it is a one-time payment.

Here are next years cycle start blocks and approximate dates. Set your payment-start block's accordingly.


here's the script and math

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Also, I'd like to remind everybody of some important differences from typical elections that Dash's voting system has:
(taken from masternode-budget.cpp)

 - Votes are counted every 16616 blocks
 - Votes can be recast at any time
 - Budget proposals remain on the network until:
    either 340 more nay votes than yay votes are cast (10% of total masternodes)
    or the proposal end block is reached
 - Approved budgets are paid in order of yay - nay votes
 - Approved budgets can be nullified at any time by recasting votes

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Also, A bit of rumor control about "Evan controlling the budget system":

Evan doesn't have enough masternodes online to pass anything.
Neither do I.

Even working together we couldn't vote the required 10%.

From what I've gathered analyzing vote timestamps only otoh has enough
masternodes provisioned to cast enough votes to pass a budget item.

But even with approximately 600 masternodes (maybe less today), it would only
take 261 no votes to prevent the budget item from passing.

Additionally, the budget allocation is disbursed in order of yay - nay votes.
So, even if somebody did sneak a budget item in at the last second, it would
only be processed after all other approved budgets had been funded.

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I hope this post helps to dispel any concern about dash being controlled by
whales.

The way the system is set up, what is good for the currency will
trump any few individuals' will to power.