Im wanting to create a master node, i have experience in linux and work in IT, so should be pretty straightforward.
What i want to know is how many DRK do i expect per day with a master node at present?
From what i understand, the more masternodes that are running, the smaller the payout?
Masternode payments haven't gone into effect yet, they go into effect with RC2 which is not yet live - probably in the next week or so RC2 will be live. Masternodes will get 10% of mining output, this equals about 900-950 coins per day, divided by the current number of masternodes. Currently there are only 41 masternodes on the network (
http://drk.poolhash.org/darksend.html), but I expect this number will climb rapidly once masternode payments go into effect. So at the current level of 41 masternodes each node would be pulling in 23 coins per day. Pretty damn good money actually. My guess is that in 2-3 weeks there will be 100-200 masternodes,
so payments would be ~5 coins per day about. Hope that helps.
Right now it's actually closer to 665 DRK/day with the current reward at this level of difficulty. (11.56 drk/block x 576 blocks/day x 0.1 = 665.856 DRK for the masternodes to split up)
So let's say that there are 100 Masternodes, even at 6.65 DRK/Day per Masternode per day, that's quite an amazing deal. Thinking about it like that, there's gonna be a hell of a lot of masternodes and a price increase to go along with it.
Right now you need approx 30 MH/s to get around 6.5 DRK/day, which I'm sure is above average for most mining rigs. Masternodes are effectively a new form of mining with their own profitability but with the advantage of having people hold minimum 1000 DRK and taking it out of circulation which avoids dumping. This is a new form of mining and more valuable to the network than simple POS, quite amazing.
How much money does it take to set up a 30 MH/s mining rig and how much work is to set it up (It's gotta be at least 3000$ + electricity costs?). A masternode on the other hand will currently run you approximately 1500$ for 1000 DRK and then maybe 5$ a month to set up a VPS with no further electricity costs. It's an amazing deal if you intend to mine Darkcoin.
Of course a mining rig can be reused for other coins as well but a masternode is simply set it and forget it, it generates revenue and secures/decentralizes the network without any further tweaking and without the possibility of a GPU failing and needing to be replaced.
