i have the same problem mined 12000 coins no payouts to the generated wallet .. i only started to receive payments after i used a paper wallet and generated the address with the client .. but thinking my 12000 is lost

We really need another exchange. Bittrex wants a passport these days.

I am sure the network will be fine.

My worries are that very few people will get 300% return per year for their MN, while the rest will get 25% for normal POS, which seems very unbalanced. As you said, just crazy, but I don't see this as a good thing, it could lead to a "rich get richer" scenario and more centralisation.

And yes, there are 7 days to set everything up, but as I said, for someone who has a few hundred or even a few thousand DMD it is pretty much impossible or at least very expensive to get enough DMD for a MN in that time.

I know there was talk of having distributed MN, which would solve the problem, but unless that is implemented I am sceptical.

I was just thinking that it would make more sense to have a wider adoption of masternodes.

Needing less than 2000 DMD would open the door to more people and help increase the price more, so even if there were more masternodes around it would increase their income since the price would be higher.

Since there would be a bigger chance of a price increase due to wider masternode adoption, it would in-turn increase the incentive for normal user investing.

Sounds like a win win to me.

Don't you guys think 10000 DMD is a little too much to be a masternode?  

Under 2000 would make more sense.