Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency
You still haven't completely answered the question. Why would a masternode owner continue to mine DASH if it's not profitable?
Yes he did, and so did I.
The reason this is more favourable to the Dash Miner/masternode combo than, say [Other Coin Miner]/Dash Masternode combo is because it optimises Dash coin accumulation which can go towards masternodes and further reduce the effective difficulty. (In the examples below, nearly 3 nodes are acquired by the mining equipment break even point. In the non-hybrid example they're all from mining reward which turns that operation into a de-facto hybrid one anyway if they are held).
And what if your theory happens to be correct? What if some masternode owners are actually also mining and inefficiently achieving the goals you claim they are when they could do it far cheaper? What then? What does that change?
What is changes is that Dash drops chronically in marketcap ranking since mining is subsidised by its own blockchain while in other (100% mined) coins it isn't subsidised at all. The entire capital that's invested in mining has to come from outside of the ecosystem which is why their blockchains are healthy while ours is atrophying by comparison.
I remind you of the figures since you asked for "proof" in your last post:
