Masternode. what exactly means?

[loughlin]

Can someone explain what is exactly masternode and why is it so good?
I see that many altcoins announce masternode as a big improvement.
thanks

[babychi]

A collection of connected nodes is called a cluster. If you are running a single node of Elasticsearch, then you have a cluster of one node. ... A node that has node.master set to true (default), which makes it eligible to be elected as the master node, which controls the cluster.

[Scuds31091]

LINDA has one of the best paying Masternodes around right now. Plus it's been doing great recently. Very healthy climb. Up 400% over the last week. With all the new masternodes, exchanges, and news, I could see this coin breaking into the top 100 in the near future. That leaves about 10x profit from it's current price still.



https://yobit.net/en/trade/LINDA/BTC

https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange?market=LINDA_BTC#

[shyliar]

In general it means a coin that is moving towards centralization. Not a good thing if you believe in the decentralized model of bitcoin. Great idea if you believe in centralized systems more closely related to the current banking model,