Mini-masternodes.

[pbleak]

I had a weird ideas last night. Is there any especial barrier to having 'smaller' masternodes: 100, 500? Of course such nodes would get small rewards.

OK, this would change things a little, but would surely lead to two bonuses:
1) People will invest again aiming to get a mini-node (and node setup people will earn more too).
2) There will be more masternodes to help out in the network generally.

Maybe this is impossible but I had to share it. It just hit me and I was like...wait, surely this can be done.

 

[flare]

This idea comes up from time to time

Nevertheless the way it's now has a cause: we want to prevent attacks (especially sybil attacks) against the network. The original idea was "to make it very expensive to acquire a masternode" see original post by Evan.

--> https://darkcointalk.org/threads/darkcoin-update-masternode-requirements-masternode-payments.225/

I appreciate your idea, but no, we do not plan to change this requirement.

Holger

 

[pbleak]

Ah OK, yes, I just had to get it out of my head just in case it was useful!