Are masternodes still profitable in 2025?

[Abiky]

Anyone here still running masternodes? Coins such as Dash and Digitalcoin (now defunct) have this functionality. I want to know if it's still worth running a masternode these days. I'm eyeing out Dash, as it's one of the few masternode coins with a limited supply and active development. It could easily hit $1k in the future, imo.

Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[markm]

Check out DMD Diamond.

Especially their upcoming v4...


-MarkM-


P.S. When you claim your v4 DMD coins based on your v3 holdings it is non-destructive claim, not sure if exchanges doing it for you will give you back your v3 coins but if not just hold them yourself and do the claim and you'll retain your v3 coins which will come to be known as DMD Classic and the Milieu expects to be building it a "treasury" etc and continue using it even while also adopting v4...

[Abiky]

Check out DMD Diamond.

Especially their upcoming v4...


-MarkM-


P.S. When you claim your v4 DMD coins based on your v3 holdings it is non-destructive claim, not sure if exchanges doing it for you will give you back your v3 coins but if not just hold them yourself and do the claim and you'll retain your v3 coins which will come to be known as DMD Classic and the Milieu expects to be building it a "treasury" etc and continue using it even while also adopting v4...

It's been a long time since I haven't heard about this coin. Used to have some DMD on an old wallet almost ten years ago (2014 to be exact), but totally forgot about it. Considering that the new V4 version will be built on ETH's EVM, this will be an interesting coin to watch. Thanks for bringing this up.

[asriloni]

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

[passwordnow]

IMHO, gone are the glory days of masternodes. But if you happen to still holding some, then you can keep holding it. And if you're planning to get into it and you want to establish it while holding that coin for the meanwhile, you're free to take the risk. If the amount is a lot and you're getting small APR, it's better to choose another altcoin and have it staked. Or choose a POS coin that can give you better reward for its APR. And you don't have to spend cost for running it because you'll just put it on the wallet and run on its own, compared to masternodes, you need to have dedicated servers or VPS for it to run.

[cryptotact11]

Don't waste your time on these fads. It was a money making machine in the early days, when it was a novel concept with high APR and high user demand. Masternodes are not much different than validators in POS networks, just different wording. Now there are so many projects with this concept that they are not so interesting. The only way to make real money is if by chance you end up selecting a winning project in its early days.

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

It is terrible APR and risky as DASH might continue to decline in price long before you get close to ROI.

[Odohu]

I think the hype around master nodes have passed which indicates that it is no longer that profitable. A few might be but it varies from project to project and as we know, the proliferation of shitcoins is a major problem in cryptocurrency. I have seen many people invest in masternodes of new new projects and they lost their money. So, master nodes are more or less taking unnecessary risk with high chances of loosing your money.

[markm]

DMDv4's masternode-like things are validator nodes.

You have staking too in DMD even in v3, the main improvement in v4 is you don't have to stay online to stake.

The new validator nodes implement delegated staking, in that each such node can only have up to 50k DMD working, of which as little as the 10k needed to fire up a node can belong to the node operator, all the rest can be delegated though not sure what the competition to attract users to choose your node(s) to delegate to is going to look like.

I do like a lot the non-destructive claiming of v4 coins from one's v3 holdings as for the Galactic Milieu that is going to be much like when GPL spawned GPL2, a nice little gain for its holders and, since a lot of other currencies were already holding GPL, a boost to a lot of the other currencies used in the Milieu.

In the case of DMD, our ticker DMD will continue to be used for v3, which will become known as DMD Classic, and a new ticker DMD4 will be created for v4.

Other venues if any continue to support v3 will more likely use DMD for v4 and DMDC signifying DMD Classic for v3.

As far as I know v2 is totally dead, certainly I did not retain it for use in the Milieu.


-MarkM-

[Odusko]

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

Masternode is not a viable investment for a starter like the ops since we have gone way passed it glory days and now it rewards is dependant on two factors to make something significant from it, such as the price of Dash as at when you received the rewards and how much you ha e hold down to be able to make something significant that can amount to what one can call a tangible profits at the end.

[nelson4lov]

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

9.5 years is a long time to get returns. I do know that it was profitable back in the day but right now, the barrier to entry is super high and returns are not even convincing one bit. It's also worthy to add that Dash doesn't have the same interest and attention it used to have and that is very reflective in the coin price as well. A very huge gamble imo and there's no telling where Dash price would be in the next couple of years.

[Abiky]

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

Where did you get this information? Care to share your source? Sorry for my ignorance, but it's been a long time since I've been away from masternode-based coins.

Besides Dash, I've found Horizen to be an attractive option with its "Tiered Masternodes" model. It's much more affordable than Dash. Although, I'm not sure how profitable ZEN masternodes would be. If Dash's developer team lowered the required collateral to run a masternode, things would've been better. Dash would be more decentralized as a result of increased accessibility. It seems that there aren't many masternode-based coins these days. So the future of Dash and similar coins is bleak. Staking PoS coins would be a better option, imo.

[cryptotact11]

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

Where did you get this information? Care to share your source? Sorry for my ignorance, but it's been a long time since I've been away from masternode-based coins.

Looks like it was this website https://masternodes.online/currencies/DASH/.

Besides Dash, I've found Horizen to be an attractive option with its "Tiered Masternodes" model. It's much more affordable than Dash. Although, I'm not sure how profitable ZEN masternodes would be. If Dash's developer team lowered the required collateral to run a masternode, things would've been better. Dash would be more decentralized as a result of increased accessibility. It seems that there aren't many masternode-based coins these days. So the future of Dash and similar coins is bleak. Staking PoS coins would be a better option, imo.

It is better and much safer to use AAVE or similar and supply stablecoins there.

[nemesis_incarnate]

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Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

9.5 years is a long time to get returns. I do know that it was profitable back in the day but right now, the barrier to entry is super high and returns are not even convincing one bit. It's also worthy to add that Dash doesn't have the same interest and attention it used to have and that is very reflective in the coin price as well. A very huge gamble imo and there's no telling where Dash price would be in the next couple of years.

Yeah, some kind of a gambler for me, but still - the option is there and should be analyzed.

Haven't heard about anything regarding the coin beforehand, but it's interesting to see things click: I would rather choose something different though..

[Lanatsa]

Anyone here still running masternodes? Coins such as Dash and Digitalcoin (now defunct) have this functionality. I want to know if it's still worth running a masternode these days. I'm eyeing out Dash, as it's one of the few masternode coins with a limited supply and active development. It could easily hit $1k in the future, imo.

Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

When it comes to nodes then i have been purchasing 4-5 of them but not into those projects that are on top rankings or good ranking in the market.

1. xAi
2. Lumia
3. Rivalz
.....

Results? They are profitable at first when there's hype and the token cost are good or into its all time high or even into that mid-range price but on the moment that it will be that kissing into the floor
then it will definitely be ending up on getting some peanuts not unless if you are holding up a good project and having that huge potential to pump in the future and you have decided to hold up instead on actively selling it. Therefore the primary target at the moment that you are buying up some masternodes is to gain up ROI immediately as much as possible and it will be that up to you whether you would be deciding on letting it run and accumulate and holding up those tokens/coins in long term or you would be deciding on keeping on selling it to maximize possible ROI if you havent been able to reach on.

You are the ones will be making out such decisions when it comes to this because everything will be basing up according into your preference and decisions since what matter most on here is into your profitability
in the end of the day.

[tygeade]

When it comes to nodes then i have been purchasing 4-5 of them but not into those projects that are on top rankings or good ranking in the market.

1. xAi
2. Lumia
3. Rivalz
.....

Results? They are profitable at first when there's hype and the token cost are good or into its all time high or even into that mid-range price but on the moment that it will be that kissing into the floor
then it will definitely be ending up on getting some peanuts not unless if you are holding up a good project and having that huge potential to pump in the future and you have decided to hold up instead on actively selling it. Therefore the primary target at the moment that you are buying up some masternodes is to gain up ROI immediately as much as possible and it will be that up to you whether you would be deciding on letting it run and accumulate and holding up those tokens/coins in long term or you would be deciding on keeping on selling it to maximize possible ROI if you havent been able to reach on.

Fresh hype must be the reason on why you considered non-top projects because top-projects are usually old projects too, but you should not only hold longer on it, for the same reason you said there.

So each still has their pros and cons. It is only about preferences if what we think suits us. According on the masternode's meaning, it is seems that they are an important part of crypto, so if it is only about running them, yes OP, for sure there are still people that runs them even not really for the purpose of earning a profit. I know Dash coin and I think it is also anonymous. There are a couple of reasons on why people buy it, so you can definitely go with it OP.

[$crypto$]

Don't waste your time on these fads. It was a money making machine in the early days, when it was a novel concept with high APR and high user demand. Masternodes are not much different than validators in POS networks, just different wording. Now there are so many projects with this concept that they are not so interesting. The only way to make real money is if by chance you end up selecting a winning project in its early days.

Yes, the masternode trend is now over --- now many people are more into validators, maybe it's not much different from that and I don't think it will be profitable anymore, but it's up to the OP how confident he is in the future to $1000.

For early profits, you have to find a good project, because now after the listing the price has plummeted because the dominance of altcoins is less even though the project is working hard in its development.

[asriloni]

Dash masternode cost you around 20k USD. Meanwhile, it can only give you 2100 yearly. Imo this is quite small.

It means it takes around 9,5 years to get ROI, but you can also sell your Dash used for masternode anytime.

Getting 5,7 usd daily seems worthy enough. However, it totally depending on the price of Dash.

9.5 years is a long time to get returns. I do know that it was profitable back in the day but right now, the barrier to entry is super high and returns are not even convincing one bit. It's also worthy to add that Dash doesn't have the same interest and attention it used to have and that is very reflective in the coin price as well. A very huge gamble imo and there's no telling where Dash price would be in the next couple of years.

Yeah, it's almost one decade. Not worthy to trye, i guess. I'd rather stake or LP ing it directly on some Defi, which may give me more apr/apy, but the same risk.

The masternode era has already passed, and i guess the price will never go up. Things worsen with so many exchanges are also against the privacy coin.

[nemesis_incarnate]

Yes, the masternode trend is now over --- now many people are more into validators, maybe it's not much different from that and I don't think it will be profitable anymore, but it's up to the OP how confident he is in the future to $1000.

For early profits, you have to find a good project, because now after the listing the price has plummeted because the dominance of altcoins is less even though the project is working hard in its development.

Alts didn't have their rally yet, in my opinion, so, yeah, - and it's especially more relevant that the project is already afloat so much that to be in little profit, years are needed.

When you are the first, you risk the most, but you also gain the most

[illanz]

Honestly, the heyday of masternodes is over. If you already have some, just hold on. But if you’re thinking of starting one, be aware it can be risky and often gives low returns.

[nelson4lov]

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Yeah, it's almost one decade. Not worthy to trye, i guess. I'd rather stake or LP ing it directly on some Defi, which may give me more apr/apy, but the same risk.

The masternode era has already passed, and i guess the price will never go up. Things worsen with so many exchanges are also against the privacy coin.

Yeah, definitely not the time for masternode. I feel like OP was only asking of masternodes because he is looking for another initiative with returns that are similar to those of the earliest masternodes but sadly those days are gone. The closest we have to those returns are in DeFi especially projects with really good revenue turnover with decent yield.