Hey guys, havenât posted anything in a while but found this topic to be interesting.
Why couldnât the community of SNOâs just do something like this on their own if people are interested? But instead of using addresses and IDâs and all that, just use the old âhonor systemâ (lol) and people can post screenshots of their dashboards. I mean⌠any large SNOâs are most likely going to have such things like Grafana, Zabbix or some other dashboard. To take it a step further, people could post pics of their setups with specs and all. I mean, who doesnât love hardware porn too right?!?
As for the whale issue, I can see how this could be a bit of a concern at least while Storj is relatively small and might be frouned upon by some currently, but I believe itâs inevitable that if Storj continues to grow the wales will be essential. Letâs face it⌠with the constant exponential growing demand for data storage itâs simply not feasible for all of the data to be stored in peoples bedrooms.
According to some sources, global data is growing at a rate of ~1000 PB/day. Thatâs essentially 50,000 20TB nodes⌠per day⌠18.25 million nodes per year! And that will only increase with time. Now obviously Storj will only make up a percentage of the market, but either way⌠whales will be essential. And thatâs ok, because it will still be decentralized. So for those of you who believe whales are bad right now, hereâs the solution⌠more whales!
As for Storjâs view on whales, I would speculate that they know itâs an inevitability and that the current subnet limitations (similar to the initial signup limitations) are just a best effort to keep it as decentralized as possible (and arguably probably more for geographical reasons) without actually hurting the whales that have the technical skills to work around the limitations. In reality this is actually a decent strategy (wheather on purpose or not) to somewhat limit the first whales to those with more technical skills and those more apt to run enterprise hardware with raid and backup systems like ups, gennys, etc⌠even if it is out of their garage. And if their investing that kind of money into their setup, well then there far more incentivised to keep their systems operational than your average normie making 6 bucks a month as a hobby.
Letâs face it⌠if Storj really wanted to prevent whales itâs not hard, even if someones using different emailâs and token addresses for each node, but I highly doubt itâs worth the effort for them to do as it wonât really matter in the long run anyway except for turning larger SNOâs away. So whale away because once decentralized storage really takes off itâs going to get crazy, even for the smaller guys!
And lastly to the smaller SNOâs, although the subnet limitation will most likely remain as a means to distribute data geographically, that doesnât mean they wonât ramp up data as more comes in⌠I mean, thatâs kinda the point. And keep in mind that although there might be whales, itâs not the same as POW mining. Your hard drives will be more or less just as profitable 6 months or a year from now unlike how it works with mining. Here your providing a service not playing the lottery. So keep at itâŚ
