Yes, everyone has a price, but one of the beauties of DRK is that once one has acquired a MN (and I have a long way to go ) The return on that MN pretty much guarantees its ongoing existence, and works against its liquidation. Those who are living entirely hand-to-mouth will not pursue a MN. Those such as myself, who do only slightly better, can see hope of getting one in a year or two, and have a fixed target to aim at. Even if a price rise takes direct purchase out of reach, the return on the MN shares I have been able to get thus far assure my eventual achievement. If I understand what is being proposed for Spread, I could never have such assurance, and therefore would never make such a longterm commitment to try to hit such a moving target. Once I achieve my goal, the higher the price of DRK, the more precious my MN will become, and the less likely I will be to liquidate it. I suspect the same will hold for my heirs.

In addition, along the lines of Tokenormal's comments, I see encouraging the turnover of MN's as being major security issue. One can assume that Neither DRK nor Spread, are much of a blip on Nation/State radars; that blip will grow, and it will only be later that budgets are freed to address the "threat." By that point not only will MN's be more expensive, but in DRK's case they will be well established and "aged." New MNs will be less and less available meaning the network will be more and more secure.

As a student of economics, I have no doubt that Evan has worked out the supply/demand curves for MNs vs holding/spending coins at various returns. If I remember correctly he is aiming for a balance point of around 3,000 MNs. Given the divisible nature of the coins, I can imagine an economy asymptoticly approaching 21,000 MNs. This of course is the theoretical maximum, and even under those ludicrous conditions MN holders become the elite of the world who would never under any condition sell. In a "Spread" economy, that decision would not even be in the holders control, guaranteeing a world where the rich get richer and sincere honest players are at their mercy.

Peace to you all...

Guys, can you give me darkcoin pool from Europe .

But that's exactly how DRK works right now if you look at it from a BTC or fiat market perspective.

Fiat is the market everyone is playing to - in other words the market in which the entire crypto-economy is currently valued. The coin threshold isn't so much the "price" of a masternode but a technical property of the network. Markets value that technical property accordingly in terms of other currencies - principally BTC and USD.

If you make it a technical property of the node as opposed to the network then nodes are no longer homogeneous (or as I've previously called it 'fungible' to borrow a financial term). It's the fact that Darkcoin's nodes are homogenious in this respect that makes them decentralised because if I want to extend the masternode population I just have to reproduce a common network property as opposed to a specific node property. That gives the network redundancy because big holders cannot "hijack" this network property (the coin threshold for masternodes) in order to exclude small holders from supporting the node population. (I use 'big' and 'small' as relative terms here obviously).

In some ways it's like the double-spend problem. Big holders cannot prevent small ones from spending their holdings, no matter how big their stash is. Technical properties of the network enforce this rule. So it should be with all network infrastructure including masternodes.

There's nothing in that which prevents masternodes from being appropriately valued by markets.

I one word : with the SPR system, the MN network can be manipulate really more easily!
Also with the current SPR price, a MN need to be rewarned of ~ 40 SPR only to cover the VPS price hosting.
So for the moment nothing really exciting (maybe expt the solo mining only but in case of really  high hash rate not sure it's really so great).

Pretty cool but that's way too much info per page for my attention span!

hahahaha !!  Very good one!

The coin that does not need gimmicks is going to meet us at 0.006 soon

Yikes. So it is.

Every rise is just being used as a cushion for dumping now. Even the die-hards must be getting despondent.

It just dropped below the all time low of November 2013. The 1-week MACD indicates it's headed for plummet territory.

This is a very interesting 5 minute video - A MUST WATCH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM

The site you mentioned also doesn't ship until the goal of a certain amount of shirts have been sold, like 50, has been met. It's not a store, it's a fundraiser website.

CafePress allows one person to buy 1 item, and way more than just shirts. The other site would require 49 other people to buy it to for them to be shipped for example.

But if anyone knows of a better way/store to get the items out, I'm all ears.

Edit: also the products from cafepress that I have had shipped to me were good quality.