The fact that 2,600,000 bounty coins will be put in Masternodes is quite worrying. They will have control of the majority of the network and as o0o0 pointed out will reduce the rewards of other Masternodes and they are playing with customer funds, not their own.
I also agree wth Mr Coins. Masternodes should only be made for the amount of stakers they have to cover as well as any investor that purchases enough to run one. And I will not put garza, scam (unless proven so) or XPY (unless direct correlation) in with my questioning. There will be no excuse for the team to ignore the questions then.
Without some more clear, conscise answers there looks to be bad potential for misuse.
The bounty coins will not be in master nodes - I came across this in Slack. (sorry I don't have a screen shot). ionomy should ONLY run enough master nodes to pay the fixed stake interest on the stakers.
The bounty coins should NOT be in master nodes. This is what I expect, nothing less. If the bounty coins are in nodes then the ICO investors are getting screwed and inflated out of their investment.
But, i'm pretty sure bounty coins will just sit in a wallet, maybe staking? But not in nodes.
So what's the regular stake rate and the masternode stake rate? The math has to add up to 12 million new coins in the first year and there is no POW so someone's gonna stake them. Considering that only ~25% of premine is in customers' hands (sort of, most in the online wallet) it means 9 million on the newly minted coins in the first year will end up in the hands of... whom exactly? The team? Unless customers' nodes will stake at some insane rate (stupid idea by itself) or something else is going on.
Edit: sorry, a bit rusty today. So here is the kicker. It doesn't matter if there are 50 or 130 masternodes, right? They get 50% of block reward regardless.
https://github.com/ionomy/ion/wiki/ION-Technical-Whitepaper#masternodesMasternodes receive fixed rewards (50% of the block reward) which are probabilistically distributed among peer validated masternodes. Masternodes recursively scan peer node performance, and only high performance nodes with sustained, stable, high-speed internet connections are eligible for rewards. In addition to receiving 50% of the block reward, a masternode receives all fees for public transactions completed in a block and for all private transaction pools initiated in the block.
Smoke'n'mirrors.
Edited 2020-11-28 to fix a broken image