Thanks for reading my article. There is no taking away the value of MasterNodes as implemented by DASH evident by the numerous copycat coins around. The challenge I see here is that as the price of DASH rises it has become difficult to engage in the Dash project today unless you are extremely rich. To anyone who has just started their journey into Cryptocurrency or young adults on their first job DASH is hard to enter. The cost of putting in a proposal is also steep. On the DASH blockchain the only real way to own the coins is to buy and the mining Hashes have gone through the roof with all the X11 ASIC speaking as someone who has tried both.

The key difference is that holding SmartCash would also increase your holdings through SmartRewards and you do not need 1000 SMARTS to vote. When SmartCash becomes $500+ like DASH is today there would be more people who can engage as the cost of participating would be $500 while DASH at the same price is $500000.