No this is incorrect. Maternodes perform the coin mixing for DarkSend. The payments are a bonus and incentive to run a masternode
If you are not going to be getting paid to do it (as it costs money to run one) why on earth would you run one and put your DRK at risk...
They do not work as per design... If the rollout on the 14th June (I think) fails... DRK will be the biggest car crash in history.
Because not everyone here is for profit, some are for the ideology of the coin and the design. Masternodes are active since April if I recall correctly.
Seriously man, you should get some facts and stop spewing nonsense.
You can find the white paper at: http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/DarkcoinWhitepaper.pdf
Go read up a bit