I have a hunch that a lot of the price dropping and selling is by smaller investors like myself. Not trying to be a troll but reading this thread lately one gets the impression that the main purpose of DRK existing is to make money for master nodes. That's really a turn off (but I'm still holding for now).
I understand that they're needed for the coin, and their implementation is where the whole DRK project is at now so it makes sense that the talk is all about master nodes. But combine the impression someone gets by casually browsing here with the fact that MN payments were just doubled (did they even run long enough to get an idea that 10% wasn't enough?) at the expense of miners and you can see the conclusion it's easy to come to.
I think just running some numbers can tell you that 10% is not enough. I've been in favor or going to 20% for awhile now (the timing is a bit odd though).
At reward 5:
5 X 576 = 2,880 coins/day
2,880 X 0.1 = 288 coins for masternodes
If you want 1,000 Masternodes (for example), you're already down to around 100 coins per Masternode per year, which is not very enticing in the wild crypto game of life.
And also, re. DRK existing to make money for Masternodes: I'm of the opinion at this time that what's good for Masternodes is good for every DRK holder. If masternodes are desirable, more will be bought, which in turn means higher prices for everyone, including those that don't have 1,000 DRK.
Within reason: I don't think 100% of rewards going to Masternodes would be good for DRK, obviously, but going from 10% to 20% is definitely going up the scale of what's good for DRK, not down, if that makes any sense. All IMO, of course; for me, the cutoff where it starts hurting DRK would be somewhere around 30-50% of rewards (including more negative perception we'd get from that, not to mention there'd be big incentive to run Masternodes, leaving little liquidity to do private money transfers, which is the whole point of DRK, right?). << holy run-on sentences