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.
This is why it is crucial we shift more of the funds awarded to miners to masternodes. Recall that miners have expenses to pay, that is electricity, rent, hardware costs and labour costs. Masternodes pay much less in infrastructure costs and thus the value is retained in the network. We really need to look at the expenses in running the network and bring them in line with the economics of the coin so we can stop this mindless bleeding out of value!