Why?
1. Because I was long time holder of darkcoin/DASH from the early beginning and I am recognizing now the very similar situation with ZEN. (you can see my history on btctalk as well from 2014.)
2. Plans for masternodes (MNs) are much more improved in terms to DASH and only 42 coins would be necessary to run them, so I am advising you to buy/mine at least that amount.
3. Since MNs are going to need more resources then DASH MN and only 3.5% will be profit stream distributed to MNs, I am assuming that price must be much higher of a coin in order to sustain the costs.
Example :
Every month around 200 000 new coins are being mined
3.5% from 200 000 coins are going to be distributed to MNs total around 7000 coins
If they plan to have between 1000 to 5000 MNs as a enough security layer then income for future MNs would looks like:
1000 MNs ..... 7 ZEN per MNs per month
3000 MNs ..... 2.33 ZEN per MNs per month
5000 MNs ..... 1.4 ZEN per MNs per month
If we follow DASH path, I am thinking at least 5000 MNs will be put in place to run!
You can calculate yourself what price of ZEN has to be in order to run MN!
My projection is at least 20 USD ... most likely in the first year 50 USD.
Don't miss this great opportunity!
I did the same as you. Zen is also at this price since severals days/weeks now and I think price can just go up but no more down, or not a lot...