Dear Mr. Checkerama,
"Because I was just like you - head up in the clouds, thinking governance actually meant something for a digitial currency. Turns out, it just creates a system full of greedy owners who think they understand the best plan of action to see a currency to success when, in reality, theyre just looking for the same thing everyone else is - short term profits."
So you are critical of Masternode owners for wanting short term profits, but your whole diatribe is directed at getting short term profits for miners. And frankly, you have no idea what my motivations are as a masternode owner, or the motivations of any other masternode owner, so please stop attributing things to me/us that are purely speculative.
"You seem to think you're immune to this rule for some reason, as you sit with retarded ROIs on a failing currency that codepends on other people being interested in achieving the same end of owning a MN and only ever sees success when everyone else is panicking about REAL DECENTRALIZED cryptocurrencies, and the lack of liquidity holding up prices once in a while. You don't care about its future, so you can get off the high horse."
"retarded ROIs" Again, you attack Masternodes because they are profitable, yet you want more profit as a miner.
"failing currency" Objectively not true, and no matter how many how many times you assert it, it is still not true.
"REAL DECENTRALIZED cryptocurrencies" Sorry, I see no panic in the Dash community, and Dash is plenty decentralized.
"lack of liquidity holding up prices" You are claiming that having a stable price, and reducing downward volatility is a bad thing? It is not.
"You don't care about its future..." Again, asserting it does not make it so. I, and many other MasterNode owners care deeply and for many reasons regarding the future success of Dash.
"You get to vote on a slush fund that you literally had no input in creating."
And if you mine Dash, you are mining on a project that you literally had no input in creating. Also, there are some Dash devs who literally did help create the project and now own and operate MasterNodes, so your statement is once again demonstrably untrue. And it's not a slush fund, it's a development fund to pay our devs, our marketing, our outreach programs, etc.
"You vote for things because prices will rise, not because DASH is going to be a better, more robust currency, or because you think its necessary for a greater audience; you THINK you do, which is the funniest part, but clearly have no concept of audience retention when making these votes. Instead, you take money that you've never created and throw it to increase your own ROIs, create headlines and hype news to get a pump going on your money."
Again, you assert thing that are simply not in evidence. I invested in Dash very specifically because I believed in Satoshi's original vision of providing honest money to people that have been abused by their own governments. And then you assert a bunch of other stuff you can't possibly know. I assert that you have green hair and 3 legs. Did it work?
"Can someone explain why it was important to spend $600,000 on a Zimbabwe project when half of the population doesn't even have electricity? Because it wasn't about doing anything over there, it was simply about creating a nice headline for the next pump. But yeah, miners are being greedy for asking for a positive ROI and higher emissions for the long-term sustainability of the DASH network's hashrate LOL."
Where to even start...
1. You assert that since Zimbabwe is not fully electrified, we should not bother to help them. I assert that they are the ones that most need honest money to get their economy back on track.
2. Even assuming your assertion is true, that means the other half does have electricity. That's 8 million people in desperate need of better currency. Perfect use case for Dash.
3. You assert that we do this only for the marketing value. Again, asserting it does not make it so, because it is not so. In my experience the Dash community wants to make a real difference in the world.
4. Please show me where I have accused any miner of being greedy. A few vocal miners are in fact being unrealistic about what can be changed in the Dash ecosystem.
And I would note that you once again failed to answer my question. So, have you ever seen the warning, "All crypto is risky. Do not invest any more money than you can afford to lose." If you have not seen it, you have been actively avoiding it somehow. And if you have seen it, why did you think it would not apply to you?
You somewhat remind me of RGXDK. Determined, but mistaken.