how much is needed for a masternode ?
500k
How much is the income of a masternode?
Well theres planned to be 512 elite nodes.
At current usage, (it was 1k blocks per day average last month or so I cba to recount to average)
So lets average it at 1.5k blocks created over the blockchain at todays averages, lets keep conservative and say 2 transaction charges per block.
Thats 3000 transactions per day being charged 100XBY
Thats 300k XBY in total for the node network per day
300,000 / 512 = 585.9 ea
586XBY = $14.50 per day give or take.
Remember thats 24/7 not work days = $450 monthly
When the network picks up, the volumes will also be higher thus more transactions.
Edit: Im not 100% on what the consensus came to, but i think there was an agreement for 64% of the fees to be given back from the network to the dev fund for a few month or so when the nodes go live maybe someone else can clarify this for us!