Hi how many strat to make masternode?
You need 250,000 Stratis so roughly around $12000 plus a standby 5 btc around $6000 . Overall you need around $18,000 . But I am sure it has an excellent reason why Chris and the crew came up with that number.
Hereby the right calculation
You need 250.000 Stratis so roughly around $ 140.000 plus a standby 5 BTC around $ 6.000. Overall you need around $ 146.000.
By the time Breeze is released, it will be more like $250,000 to $500,000 worth of Stratis and 5 BTC to operate a masternode. Stratis is the future!
Too rich for my blood

No worries!
There will be future releases of other forms of Stratis Nodes providing functionality, such as:
Payment Node Payment Channels
Side-Chain Node Hybrid Side chain special features
Identity Node Identity management node