Those big whales.. 50+ master nodes running on amazon ec.. that's gotta be some serious income.
I must say, although I've only been in DRK for a few weeks, I think the masternode thing is a stroke of genius.
It shows the dev's got a bit of financial nouse as well as technical. I've been trying to work out how worthwhile it is putting up a masternode and I keep going round in circles because:
[1] - it lots of masternodes go up, you'll get less of the "pie"
[2] - but the price of DRK will go up because less money supply and more demand, so what you DO get is worth more
[3] - but if the price goes down, more masternode holders will retire and want to sell their holdings
[4] - so the remaining masternodes get more of the pie, creating more demand and stabilising the market
Kind of like multi-pool effect except it's based on a constructive principle that supports the coin technically as opposed to a parasitical one that does nothing for the coin.