Quote from: dungp3132 on August 13, 2019, 11:17:16 PM

Quote from: qwizzie on August 13, 2019, 05:14:49 AM

Masternodes by Geographic Location and Organisation
Link : https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/masternodes.dws

Looks like Netherlands have taken a firm second place ranking, behind the USA. For more information check above link (i had to cut the overview a bit).
-qwiz

Surprise to see that Latin America continent has no nation in the top list. Latin America have some biggest communities of DASH, especially in Venezuela, Colombia. I remember that early this year or in late 2018, I saw a video from DASH channel that Venezuela and Colombia are among nations that have biggest communities for DASH, just behind USA and Canada. The list above shows top three includes USA, Netherlands and Germany.

I think there are a number of reasons why masternodes are not located in Latin America :

* cost factor : 1 masternode needs 1000 Dash --> total cost currently to setup a masternode : $101,000 (total cost was much higher during bull market by the way)
* infrastructure factor : hosting providers provide a select few server locations to choose from, Latin America could simply be missing in those locations due to underdeveloped and/or weak internet structure
* freedom to choose location : Latin America masternode owners (or any masternode owner for that matter) could easily choose a location that provide better uptime for their masternode. That location does not necessarily
need to be the location where that masternode owner lives. For example Latin America masternode owners could choose to use server location USA or Netherlands or Germany.