13,000 nodes, running 2m users, paying $1/day (who wouldn't pay that for anonymity). That gets you something like $60k/year per Master Node in Revenue.
We currently have around 4.5m coins, at 75% - I think that works out at 3,400 nodes. With the same revenue metrics, you would be looking at $215k per Master Node per year. Not sure on costs to run, but it can't be anywhere near that, lol..... $ signs
Hang on.
This is all going a bit gaga. We're potential headed into load of trouble here.
DRK was a currency, not a service. Its low coin supply was attractive and consistent with its role as a currency / store of value.
A currency should have NO utility value to be of any worth as a monetary medium. That's what makes crypto attractive. As soon as it starts to have utility value it goes out of circulation and becomes a utility which then exposes it to competition from other utilities.
So if we're now talking about a service, we're into a whole new ballgame. Different rules apply.
For a start, the limited coin supply is going to be a hindrance not a help. 1000 nodes is nothing in terms of a bandwidth infrastructure. You need 100's of thousands or millions because we're not just talking coin 'washing' we're talking high bandwith transport (I imagine).
Secondly, with it being a service, not a currency, there's nothing to stop other players from competing. Adoption isn't an objective anymore, revenue is. My own opinion is that a Darkcoin TOR network will never even get near the kind of income your talking about - there are so many players in this market who a way ahead in this technology. We're talking about a whole new industry sector. This is dreamland stuff.
Nobody gets to make that kind of money in a technology market and keep market share - it just doesn't happen, so lets get our feet back on the ground and establish exactly what this project is about.
This is a very big deal and must be thought through on all front before people start getting dollar signs in their eyes.
I don't think you read my synopsis.
DRK is the currency. Agreed. You buy DRK with fiat in order to pay to use Web 3.0
edit - think about that for a second.....people who want to use DRKTor, buy DRK to access it. Possibly new fiat entering crypto. DRK becomes partly backed by something - fiat, and demand for a service.
Web 3.0 is the Master Nodes.
They are not the same thing. The Master Nodes are an infrastructure service that has to be paid for. Bandwidth is not for the currency to sort out. That's an issue over, err, bandwidth. Its not linked to mining. Its not linked to block chain bloat. Its hardware and routing speeds. If you pay enough, you get the bandwidth.
Whose to say that people won't pay for the service? Ok, $0.50 per day. Around 2,200 nodes. That still revenue of $160k / node per year. That still values each node at $1m - $1.6m on PE of 6-10. Twitter and Facebook are PE of over 30.
That still gets you demand to purchase 1,000 DRK to set-up Master Nodes. With a race on to get set-up, you are still talking about the demand on the currency pushing prices up to $1bn - $3bn.
Now.
Lets add other services..........
BTC <> DRK exchanges, with no registrations for small quantities (edit - there are regulatory issues here. you can transact less than $1,000 in unlinked transactions on a risked based basis - but it does pose some issues depending on where nodes are hosted)
BTC <> any currency exchanges
DarkMarkets giving Master Nodes 2-4% on sales.
xyz services.
There is no reason why added services on top of DRKTor can't push the value of the currency into $billions.
I like these challenges. Keep it up. But, you are in my back yard now.