Well I could of worded it better but no, they were not actually all mined already :-p I meant to say, there is no proof of stake thing going on here. Nakamoto consensus is the baseline, masternodes don't mint coins out of thin air and the mining schedule is fully known. Bitcoin has nodes, dash has nodes, distribution is better in dash.

As for dictate, I have no idea what you're talking about. F?ck the reward, I'd be here if it was 25% or less. A lot of MNOs are still here even when they took a 95% hit. You might want to say thank you for supporting the network when end users were free to sell at any price without penalty. Masternodes are not some magical entity, they are the same as bitcoin nodes except they are collateralized to build a reputation network.