Qwizzie over the years I've had a lot of respect for you, I recognise you provide a very useful service in the dash ecosystem,. Information you share is useful, you are always friendly and helpful to newcomers. The way you have fought trolling on this very thread over the years is also commendable. However I feel I have to point in the debate with toknormal about the reward allocation, it comes across like you think you are fighting a troll. But you are not. This conversation with toknormal is a debate about economics of Dash between people who on all sides want dash to succeed and are invested in Dash. Therefore I would prefer if you would stop attacking personality, accusing of being a cult, calling up on grammer, and things like that, I suggest either debate on those terms or don't debate and please don't fall back to troll fighting tactics.   

To toknormal i would suggest this is looking like a lost cause, particularly on this thread, would you consider going back to discord where your arguments meet a wider audience? (I actually do not believe the dash masternode community is in any way ready to accept these ideas yet sadly)

I  agree with the idea that masternode rewards do not support the price the way mining rewards do. It would be nice to see real, heavyweight debate on this matter.  However I also acknowledge that speculation can dwarf those effects at times, masking them in effect (though not forever). While the masternode network was growing this effect was hidden. Also during the last speculative bubble, also hiddent, dash went to the moon based on being an alternative to bitcoin which was struggling to scale and grappling high fees and facing the bitcoin cash hardfork. Dash was one of the main beneficiaries of this. The effect is not hidden anymore if you care to look. We can't rely on an ever growing masternode network to boost the price. Perhaps there is an unforseen set of circumstances that will once again make dash flavour of the month and another big speculative bubble temporarily hides the drain of value from masternode rewards being set too high.

Peace out