Oh my. Behind a single /24 subnet, that’s totally impossible. Have a look at @BrightSilence’s estimator to have a rough idea on what to expect, and how long it takes to “ramp up” the return on investment (copy the google sheet in your account, then fill in your numbers):
In 10 years, you would still earn less than 150$ per month (by providing 40TB of storage), if network activity were to stay roughly the same as it is these days.
Everyone’s hopping for the network and its usage to scale up. But even if it did, more SNOs would probably join in, which means that it wouldn’t necessarily increase that much what a single SNO can earn.
If you have several IPs behind different /24 subnets, then it’s different as you could store more and faster, making your earning go up quicker.
But unless you have a lot of different IPs, being an SNO is not the best recipe for getting rich.
Not yet anyway…
that’s what i meant in a globalised market chances are high someone will be richer and can afford better hw and infra structure. Which makes this web2. Inflationary supply and only aggregators make an income. Google etc are aggregators.
We (Operators) are fixed in USD and receive them in STORJ on send date. The same for customers - if they pay with STORJ, tokens converted into USD balance, but will receive +10% more unlike paying with Credit card.
Unlike mining where you get more money right away if you throw more hardware (i.e. CPU power) to your rig, here with Storj it doesn’t work this way.
If you were to offer 1500TB overnight, it wouldn’t do anything except sucking up an awful lot of electricity…
Again, except if you have many IPs behind different /24 subnets.
The whole point of Storj is to be as decentralized as possible, so it’s quite difficult to create a datacenter in one place for Tardigrade, because they don’t want to avoid that ^^
So… yes, only the aggregator gets the chance to make a decent amount of money.
