And how will You fill Your HDD’s fast? without fast connection?
When Your goal at first will be to keep data.
Second, if this new egress price make data inflow to the network e.g. 2 times more, 3 times more, You will fill Your HDD accordingly faster as well, means you will earn faster. if Your main earning will be from storage at first.
(because You have to first upload a file, video, so it can be downloaded, or watched, and the goal is for customers to be much more willing to store videos than now). If these prices result in more network traffic, the egress doesn’t have to be 0 for SNOs at all, there will be $2.5/TB profit to share between Storj INC and SNOs. It’s only up to STORJ how they want to share it and if.
Cold storage use has right to exists, just don’t know if You can build a profitable STORJ future on that alone, when industry standard for egress price is lower now a days. (hetzner Є 1,19/TB)
Sure, all can stay the same, but then SNOs are still at $1,5 pay rate with not much egress traffic to be paid for, and i foresee that’s just not sustainable for large majority. Because they won’t even earn for HDD replacement in 2 years with current rates. if they don’t know now, they will realize with first drive failure. You and me are privileged, because we build our nodes before new rates, think about the network future, will it grow with this pay rates? or it will decline?