Increasing the masternode pledge is the wrong position. This is milking existing investors, and not attracting new ones because of the prospects of the project.
If you increase the deposit by 500 coins and make 1,500 GTM coins per masternode, then with the existing number of coins there will be 2,373 masternodes and the complete absence of coins in circulation. Many will simply drop coins when the price starts to rise and that's it.
The only positive point from such an increase in collateral will not be to immediately reduce the reward for the block. But subsequently, all the same, the reward for the block will need to be reduced by planning this in the roadmap.
However, the effect of increasing the collateral may be short-lived and after a short time investors will simply get rid of the coins and the price will fall again. And the credibility of the project will finally disappear.
The easiest way is not to reduce the block reward, but to return the block exit time of 2 minutes. Or make a block exit time of 1.5 minutes. And subsequently, do not reduce the reward for the block, but increase the time it takes for the block to exit.
The effect will be the same. But you will be the first to do so, does not reduce the reward for the block, but increases the time for the release of a new block.
By increasing the block exit time to 2 minutes, you will reduce inflation by 2 times. About 1,500 new coins will be issued per day.
And plan in a year to increase the output of the block 1 time in 4 minutes. After another year, 1 time in 8 minutes.
Upon receipt of a reward of 1.7 coins for 5 days, the cost of placing a GTM coin masternode is cost-effective at a price of 0.34 coins per day.
With 5,000 masternodes hosted on a hosting site for which payment is made with a GTM coin, with inflation of 1,500 new coins per day, there will be zero increase in the cost of coins. Or very small. In this case, holding a masternode of a GTM coin will be cost-effective. About 10 percent profitability. In this situation, the price for the placement of the masternode will be approximately 0.3 GTM per day, and the reward for the block will be 0.34 coins per day.
After the number of masternodes on the hosting starts to exceed 5000, the block exit time will be 2 minutes, the block reward will be 2 coins. This is approximately 1,500 new coins per day. Then the profitability of the placement of the masternode of the GTM coin will begin to grow.
And if you make the block exit time 4 minutes, then about 355 blocks will be released per day. 2 coins per block. This is 710 coins per day. You can achieve coin shortages 4 times faster.