Once masternodes go live, this coin is going to go parabolic. Reasons being:
1. To get a masternode you need 1000 SPR. There's not much SPR for sale so you have to buy at the ask. People just plain aren't hitting bids.
2. Mining is hard but having a masternode will be a means for most people to get more SPR on a regular basis. People are going to want masternodes.
All of this is going to feed upon itself.
I'm actually quite amazed that the price is still this low. I suspect people are waiting to make sure that Mr. Spread comes through with the masternode promise.
Once he does, this is going to be epic.
Good point!masternodes will serve as POS to some extent.
That's one way to look at them, yes. Mining coins is already really hard yet people understand Mr. Spread is an excellent dev so they mine anyway. Once masternodes go live, mining will be that much harder so people will want to get 1000 SPR to get a masternode. Thing there is, as people buy 1000 SPR over and over, the price is going to go up which will attract more miners and people who want masternodes. Rinse and repeat.
It could be substantially more than 1000 SPR. The number of 1000 DRK was decided so that masternodes would be expensive and that someone would not buy / control a lot of them cheaply... the price was decided when DRK was around 0.0015 BTC (and it was understood that the price would rise over time - now it's 4x at 0.006)....
SPR is currently at a weak* 0.00025 which would require 24.000 SPRs to run an equivalently expensive node as Darkcoin's. But given the low liquidity this is unlikely, so the price per SPR has to rise instead. Or a mix of price-rise and something like 3000-5000-7000 coins per node could be the result.
* Meaning that even 10 bitcoins of purchases will easily multiply this price. Buying 24.000 SPR at 0.00025 is unlikely.
All good points. I believe there are less mined SPR available now than DRK when masternodes were released though. That needs to be taken into account as well when deciding the final number required.