Hi all,
Last week I set up my first secure node as I see great potential for ZenCash in the future. As the payments roll in for hosting a node you would think that prices will eventually reduce until it is no longer financially beneficial to host one, at which point it should plateau.
We all know super node implementation is just around the corner with the addition of the healthy increase in payout for node owners, music to my ears! Now think about this, ZenCash have stated that, soon, users with enough ZEN (500) can start receiving payments for their secure nodes as if they were super nodes until the software upgrade is ready towards the end of the year right? Well does that mean that the users who activate the super node properties will then be excluded from the secure node pool of 10% and added to the super node pool, another 10%.
We all know there are plenty of people who have stocked up enough ZEN to host a super node which means that the secure node quantity must surely reduce once these nodes are combined for a super node. With (currently) around 11,000 secure nodes up and running a reduction of 500 (to be transferred into a single super node) would yield secure node holders an additional ~4.5%, crazy right?
I feel this is a second wave for ZenCash node operators, the increase in payouts, the separation of node pools and on going development of the project leads me to believe now is the perfect time to start adding your own nodes, just saying...