Einsteinium is taking community feedback on how much to require if masternodes were adopted. Their early thoughts were 500k to 1MM EMC2. I've encouraged them to make it accessible for smaller users, maybe with 500 to 1000 EMC2. While they're listening (they're actively reading and responding on reddit), please let them know the size of the stake that you think would be beneficial to EMC2, if you've witnessed other currencies' masternodes in action, feel free to use that knowledge as context.
Masternodes should be reserved for those that are willing to risk high for the coin's future and are willing to be active in securing the future of the network, you should withdraw your request for the lower tier and let those that are truly interested in science get involved in the project,.
Too many speculators now to let everybody host a masternode when this coin has support out of California, as time goes by some people might let the rest of the network take care of itself while they pursue other ambitions and then difficulty would run high as nodes fall out making the coin unattractive to new coin user's, with the new mining algorithm on GPU being center of the coins decentralization of the coin - master nodes ought be run off altogether, the most hash power in the network ought be the master node and forget about the rest as they end up hosting the latest and greatest blockchain purely by solving the complexity of the block info.
I would certainly encourage you to request your preferred higher number, but the number they originally suggested is roughly $1 million USD investment. What stands between most people and that is not true interest in science, it's resources. Most people I know don't have that much in all their assets combined, much less liquid available for investment. If you run in wealthier circles, or simply believe it's better for the currency for the super rich to be the only ones with masternodes, more power to you, but I haven't found your argument persuasive, so I'll continue to advocate for a more accessible buy in, which I do believe will make it easier for true believers to support Einsteinium.
We can both advocate our differing positions, neither of us needs to withdraw our requests.