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You can also outsource the Masternode to Hosting without losing the control of your $DASH

https://docs.dash.org/en/stable/docs/user/masternodes/hosting.html#hosting-services

Sounds pretty easy for me, like I have had many other master nodes.

I should be able to run one. Will explore more over Christmas after I have time to upgrade to HIVED 1.27.7 😎

1000 DASH seems quite easy... for running a node.