Quote from: Pang. on November 04, 2021, 08:32:05 PM

I agree with you that sometimes the master nodes seem to vote out of inertia and not thinking about the project or the long-term benefits.

Not sure thats what I was meaning. For me most the voting on treasury spending is usually quite wasteful but thats not really what I'm talking about. That is small beans compared to..

The real vote that hurt dash and continues to hurt dash every few minutes when a new block is mined was Ryans proposal to change the block reward in the opposite direction to that which was required. Which an overwhelming majority of economically illiterate masternode holders supported without realising it is strangling their golden goose.

Yes it was a small tweak. But of huge importance to the perception of Dash. A massive setback, either delaying the fix that needs to be done or blocking it entirely. Not to mention aggravating further an already serious problem. Even today most masternode holders still believe mining is expensive and serves little purpose. (To a proof of work blockchain!). Thanks Ryan Taylor for steering in the wrong direction. Either he is economically illiterate, blind leading the blind or he is ____ (fill in the blank)

Quote from: Pang. on November 04, 2021, 08:32:05 PM

On the other hand, you say that mining should receive more ... it is possible, but if in the future the Dash network requires that the master nodes provide more robust and expensive hardware, they will have to do so, if they need a connection to the faster network, they will have to do it, if they need more storage memory, they will have to do it ... this means that the master nodes, in the long term will have a more expensive maintenance, while mining is seeing the difficulty decrease day by day. day, making new miners more profitable.

In the future dash will be worth shit if they don't fix this. Masternode owners will probably vote for giving themselves 80% of the block reward to meet non existant 'rising costs'. But that wont be needed anyway they'll be able to run on a rasberry Pi with an ssd drive attached.

But if I play along.. In the future if masternode cost have risen as you say. if they only receive say 5% instead of 50%. The astronomical value of dash by then will easily compensate for new hardware.

This coin is on the way to obscurity. There is nothing to lose by fixing this. Only to gain.