The budget system hasn't been activated yet, as we still have funds held in escrow, but I would guess that the masternodes vote on who gets the budget. Then the rewards go to that address. The details, I'm not sure of, it may be similar to how other masternode coins work.
It's a method for allocating funds from the Solaris blockchain's block rewards to projects that support the Solaris network.
So, for example, we (the masternode owners) could vote for proposals, such as paying Salaries to the XLR Core Team. Usually, that's a good idea. Others could be marketing initiatives. Owners can vote to fund projects such as the announced exchange or vote changes in the system like block size increases (as was done with Dash) but we might not need those things considering we have 1 minute block times already.
If we take a cue from other masternode coins, I am guessing that proposals will require a certain amount of XLR to submit, maybe that's 5 XLR (I don't know the number, I am just guessing.) Then masternode owners vote either "Yes" or "No", and the net votes must exceed a certain percentage of all masternodes, so maybe if there are 600 nodes, any proposal will require maybe 10% or 60 net votes (yes minus no). Again, I don't know the numbers, maybe it's in the source code somewhere.
What can be said of the budget system and masternode governance is that it isn't a democracy. Since only the masternode owners can vote, you need to have at least 1000 XLR to vote. Since you need to be a significant investor, you are naturally incentivized to work for the good of the project.
It's also very expensive to try to force a Yes or No vote because that would require one person or group to have a lot of masternodes. If "they" do have the resources, it would be in their best interest to keep the network healthy and to make the charts go to the moon. (or the Sun.)
This is great Dabs.
You serve the community as escrow and you go further to serve the community by providing such relevant info. I like that
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The budget system is activated already however no one has made any proposal so far for masternodes to vote on. On the other hand we do not need any budget proposals now because we have premine funds with your reputable escrow for Solaris poject.
Also if a proposal is made, MN payouts will reduce slightly because as it stands now, budget system reward goes out to masternodes since there is no approved budget proposal.
Making a budget proposal requires 50 XLR