I just found this, not sure if it mean anything, base on https://stats.storjshare.io/nodes.json
In EU sat, payout have been reduce significantly recently:
2024-03: $67587.209771
2024-08: $16570.308262
I glanced at two of my older nodes and have noticed the eu1 data dropping each month for the last few months. No idea on the reason.
We implemented the automatic deletion of the abandoned/unpaid accounts and Discontinuation of the Storj Free Tier.
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That was months ago. What is actually happening is the BFs got to a point where they can actually trash the data they were supposed to (as I have already said in the past, the past BF failure rate was 50-70%).
You mean they can’t?
That would have no impact on the payout. Trash is unpaid regardless of BF working or not.
The announcement was months ago. The cleanup process started with the oldest accounts first. There was still a decent number of relative new accounts. Even months later some of them decided to reactivate their account by adding a payment method. So no we didn’t delete all accounts right after the announcement.
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@all: I have already talked about this, but I’ll repeat it once more at the risk of getting this reply flagged for complaining
My payout is higher at 65TB stored data (now), than it was at 120TB stored data (when the deletion started). Both stored = as reported by OS.
As I said, what actually happened is the BFs have started deleting the data they are supposed to delete.
There is a deletion queue for these accounts and they are slowly processed, giving the chance for the customers to add a payment method and remove their accounts from the queue.
However, I can imagine that we could have reduced the waiting time in the queue.
This would affect only used space on the nodes. The satellites already reporting it as free. The stat is coming from the satellites databases, see Publicly Exposed Network Data (official statistics from Storj DCS satellites).
Exactly what I mean: satellite reported used space is more or less the same, yet there are about 10PB that magically appeared on the network. Hysterians would say that all of that is new capacity that was added in anticipation of the new wolves that are coming, but in actual reality all (=99%) of that space was space that was occupied by uncollected garbage (hence why the satellite reported used space did not go down). This data was data that was eventually collected due to the BF improvements.
Storage nodes don’t track free space per satellite. They report the same free space value to all satellites. So if SLC deletes about 10 PB it will show up as free space on all other satellites.
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I didn’t say they track per satellite.