Quote from: WastedLTC on September 26, 2021, 07:32:32 PM

......and we are back to this! lol -- for a little bit I saw some other discussions and was just wondering how long before we returned to the same ol'.

Be my guest. You and anyone else are free to take the discussion anywhere you want it. Promote Dash's "store of value features" and give investors a reason to invest. An actual monetary mechanism whereby their investment can grow that is, not a bunch of cheap newflashes that might have raised an eyebrow in 2015.

The elephant in the room is that by giving away half your blockchain supply at zero price without asking for anything in return simply forces the secondary market price towards zero and creates huge headwinds for any investor.

It doesn't increase demand for masternodes because the risk of capital loss is so high if the reward ratio is set wrong (which it is at the moment) given that a large amount of capital collateral is required. For example, take the recent price drop from $200 to $165. How long would it take for masternode rewards to recover that capital loss ? Go on, work it out. I calculated it at around 3 years. 3 years to recover a capital loss that occurred in under 10 days.

That's why targeting capital gain instead of Dash-denominated income would be a far more fruitful and optimal route for the Dash protocol to follow. Potential investors know this which is why we're clinging on to the top 70 by the fingernails most of the time.

Until this gets addressed that will be the case long term.