Sven
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Yes. Or dedicated servers. Whatever it takes.
The payment is meant to compensate for your expenses, nobody is guaranteeing you a certain level of profit beyond that. In fact, reward payments will decrease over time as the block reward gets reduced every year.
And you can expect that, as long as there's good money to be made, more and more people will launch masternodes to get a slice of the pie. Right now, we still have the 1000-Dash hurdle to prevent an outright rush, but fractional ownership of masternodes is already in development. Then you can pay in whatever you can afford and get your share of the reward. Expect the number of nodes to skyrocket and times between payouts to get longer and longer.
That process will only stop once an equilibrium is reached where it roughly costs as much to run a masternode as you can generate income from it. At that point, only those with better, more stable and more cost-efficient hardware will still be profitable. In fact, the roadmap is already talking about "masternode-specific hardware with custom requirements". Low-end VPSs and Raspberry Pies will be squeezed out. So invest to upgrade or throw in the towel.
The payment is meant to compensate for your expenses, nobody is guaranteeing you a certain level of profit beyond that. In fact, reward payments will decrease over time as the block reward gets reduced every year.
And you can expect that, as long as there's good money to be made, more and more people will launch masternodes to get a slice of the pie. Right now, we still have the 1000-Dash hurdle to prevent an outright rush, but fractional ownership of masternodes is already in development. Then you can pay in whatever you can afford and get your share of the reward. Expect the number of nodes to skyrocket and times between payouts to get longer and longer.
That process will only stop once an equilibrium is reached where it roughly costs as much to run a masternode as you can generate income from it. At that point, only those with better, more stable and more cost-efficient hardware will still be profitable. In fact, the roadmap is already talking about "masternode-specific hardware with custom requirements". Low-end VPSs and Raspberry Pies will be squeezed out. So invest to upgrade or throw in the towel.
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