This is why a set amount from the start to finish IS necessary, biding would cause way to much uncertainty for future returns.
We set the amount the masternodes receive. Then based on the amount req. to set one up and the constant return, Dictates how many masternodes people will set up. No one out there will come along and set up a masternode if adding their MN to the count divides rewards past the point of profit. So from the start we just set up the req. amount and the reward amount, from there the amount of masternodes that people will set up will depend on how many are already up and how many are left before it is no longer profitable. This number must stay constant and predictable.
I don't see how it is possible to set these amounts reasonably in the future without
knowing the future.
And since when does the free market not compensate for an increase in start up cost, or any other hiccup.
If you need extra honey on a deal to get ppl interested, you pour it on, then the supply and demand takes over from there. This is in fact the only way to even discover the true price of Mnodes. Only a free market can tell us, anyone else would be guessing (with very little hope of being correct).
Your very right the free market will set this, because 2 variables remade constant and 1 will change. The constants will be OC amount req. and rewards paid out, the variable will be the amount of masternodes. This also changes based on the price of the coin, if the price of the coin goes up (amount cost MN start up) so does the value of the rewards earned.
Masternodes are almost a form of mining, the more the rewards are worth them more MN are set up based also on how much is cost to set one up. But the best part of this kind of "mining" is ppl don't go out and pay some random online supplier for "mining" equipment. They come to you the stake holders to buy the OC at what ever price you all decided to sell them at. So all the money/ value stays in the coin.
And the $4000 figure will fade out of history with all fiat. This is part of the transition, and will be realized when the cost hits $10k for 1 'any-coin' and it wakes people up to crypto, by then, fiat portfolios will be worthless as everyone runs to crypto....
For sure!!! at that point ppl will run to turn fiat into crypto while the cost is raising!!!
Guys there is no need to make more work out of this then needs to be, what you are trying to do with this auction will happen on its own, once we set the numbers.