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But they might just as well get a payment at block 3000. If you're moving your MN's after each payment you will be at the mercy of the variance.

If I am reading things correctly, then while gaming the system, it shouldn't ever take your MN longer to be paid than the good actors *plus 15 blocks, but would have the chance of it taking significantly shorter(*at 1000MN, you could receive payment 985 blocks sooner.)

My understanding is that the first payment will take as many blocks as is needed until it hits the 1 in N chance. This could take 1 or 10000 blocks. After the first payment, it will take N blocks to get the next one.

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Each new node has a 1 in N (total number of masternodes) chance of receiving a payment each block

Correct. However, I'm going to change it to the first payment requiring confirmations > masternodes*90%. So if there's 1000 masternodes a new node will have to wait 900 confirmations to be entered into the lottery. Then after that it'll be 1 of N. All future payments beyond that will be on a schedule with -10/+10% variance.

Confirmations to start a masternode will be 15. You just can't get paid until much later. It should provide a good mix of security and stability of payments.

I thought of a similar solution while I was walking my dog just now (coupling masternode count to confirmations to allow payment). Nice work.

there is still the question
how do you actually anonymize coins now and in the future !?

it is super hard to do right now (if you do not arrange another person to do it "with" you)
but that is already not really the perpuse (to arrange with others)
but now in the future if even more coins are off the market and tied up in MN's (and obviously these once in MN's will not be anonymised ) how do you you anonymize then ?

if i am some loaded HK kid dreaming of getting 100.000,-- US out of Switzerland,
well ... good luck to me (example) as just the anonymisations process will take me forever !!!
if even possible !
i think there is a real issue with the anonymisations and we should really talk about it one day !!!

im guessin that when we have 3k mn, each coin will be worth more so making 100k anon should use alot less coins...patience