The team made their cash and early investors made good returns but now masternode holders will close their masternodes and sell
To some people, power is more valuable than wealth. Certain hard-core, mass holders would not want to let go of their right to make wrong decisions on behalf of the community.
That would normally be ok because the competitive value of their collateral just depletes accordingly, so free market in play. The problem here is that it pulls the value of everybody else's investment down as well.
That was maybe an area where the decentralised governance needed a bit more evolution.
(Ah, now
there's a word

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