Looks like a lot of you have got your knickers in a bunch over the suggestion of an airdrop. Just because it has been put up for a vote, does not mean it will be implemented. I'm pretty sure Evan will not go through with it based on the comments coming through. The only people who seem to be in favour have come out of the woodwork to support the idea. I
Yeah, it really says something about community went people panic sell over an poll. Hey, cheap coins for those of us that don't have weak hands.
If anyone was thinking they want to run a masternode, it's a decent opportunity to grab 1000DRK. I'll be releasing the code tomorrow to launch your masternode and we'll hard fork in the next 4 weeks to begin payments.
Is that the final number Evan?
While I have enough for a few nodes, wouldn't you think 250 or maybe 500DRK a bit more reasonable? Even considering the technical knowledge one is expected to have in order to run a node.
Also, is the final number going to be scaled against price so that the cost in fiat to run a masternode stays roughly constant?
The point of them is to make it very expensive to acquire them. Imagine the following:
A:
- User asks "Should I create a masternode?"
- it costs $XXX, they would earn $X.XX/day. That's X days till they earn 100% of their investment.
- User buys 1000 DRK, creates masternode
- Price goes higher, 1000DRK gets pulled out of the supply
- Go to A
This is a feedback loop that I'm creating. We should add masternodes until the price goes really high and it's too expensive to buy the darkcoin to start a masternode.
Let's say after the feedback loop completes the price of Darkcoin is $5 and we have 1200 nodes. At that point we have six million dollar in masternodes, to gain 50% of the network to do an attack would probably cost much more than six million dollars, so it's not possible anymore.
The other problem is all nodes need to keep a list of all of the masternodes. We want a bunch, but we don't want more than 10k probably. If the requirement is too low we'll end up with a bunch of network traffic from all of the discovery chatter.