Quote from: the0neyes on Today at 01:00:18 AM

Raptoreum has well written papers from the developers and might be the most promising project I have seen so far in 2021.

Worth highlighting is that Raptoreum has a maximum coin supply of almost 21 billion .
It is important to consideration how exchanges are structured with trade in BTC where as the minimum trade value is usually 1 Satoshi.
That means the coin has an strict minimum value as it is unable to devalue further without stagnation.
From my experience the initial OTC trades was done at ~20 satoshi and currently down at ~5 satoshi OTC.

Currently there are 45 masternodes online earning an estimated 16 000 RTM per day, per node (~49 USD).

With the generous assumption that 1 person only has 1 wallet address the current wealth distribution as commonly seen on masternode projects is very unhealthy:
The top 0.33 % (55 unique) currently owns 72% of the circulating Supply.
I think it would be fair to assume that the real wealth distribution is even worse as 45/55 in top 0.33% is not used for anything other than collateral with rewards going elsewhere.

It is my fear that master node owners are incentivised to keep or drain the coin supply from market to keep building MN dominance seeing as ~5 satoshis could be a bit overvalued at this stage.

On a positive note this currently one of the most profitable CPU only coins, assuming you find a buyer.
It is an inevitable fact that early adopters will reap greater rewards and I think there are good plans on how to limit this later in its lifecycle

From what I have observed the developers are acting faithful with good intentions and participation on Discord has been above and beyond.
It will be interesting to see if the project manages to amend some of these challenges and continue to build momentum.

Thanks for that balanced review.

Yes this does rather heavily reward the people who get in very early however the coming pretty soon collateral increase as well as shared nodes from one of the most respected mining pools around should cut that relatively short. However it is to some extent by design. We need to have a large number of nodes online for when we start rolling out the promised features.

A lot of our features rely on Dash's implementation of bls signatures for dkg sessions and subsequent quorum formation for decision making. With too low nodes counts that is dangerous. What we have gotten together yes does reward early backers as it should, they are running more or a risk, the same goes for any kind of venture capital.