Let me first say that this is just my own opinion, not the one of others. I am not trying to spread fud, I am just one miner, do what you want with my message... but here is a copy/paste of a post that I made on the Sparks coin thread a few days ago... My suspicions are getting more serious since, those always anonymous developpers are getting more and more silent, and I feel it is important you research this:
Sparks, Rapture, Phobos, Cerberus, Crowdcoin, Race, Dinero, Infinex, Force, Stipend, Endorphin, VIVO, Innova, Cropcoin and the list goes on and on and on.... All the same exact pattern copied: Masternode/PoW hybrid, ''small'' premine, Masternode auctions through discords, Airdrops , Anonymous teams, same wallet code and bugs, Masternode gets most or half of the mining, only on stocksexchange (except 2 or 3 of thoses)... It wouldnt surprise me if it would be all coming from the same team/person or maybe a teacher somewhere giving his students a school project to each start a coin... Extremely suspicious, do your research and prove me wrong please!
It's not FUD if its the truth, there are a worrying number of faceless and nameless dev teams pumping out projects with big claims at a high rate. I decided a while ago to steer clear of these kinds of coins
Agreed, this is not FUD this is a community member voicing a legitimate concern. I've been trading crypto for over a year and always considered masternode coins and finally researching the best ones to actually run. What I'm finding is (as you stated) that a lot of these projects are copy/pasted one after another and I legitimate can't tell any of them apart besides the name. 90% of the projects I've read have a WP that essentially just states "we have masternodes" but there is literally no use-case whatsoever, they claim it's faster and more anonymous and truly decentralized. That is wonderful but what are the next steps and bigger vision beyond establishing masternodes? What is the point in re-iterating something over and over again it really is unusual how many projects are the same in every way.