Joining the community

[jammerdan]

@Krispy

so I thought I would post about joining

That’s a good idea and welcome.

@Krispy

I am hoping to make at least $30 a month to pay for internet and electricity.

Just to make clear: Storj is not mining. It depends on real usage of the storage capacity that the node operators offer.
Currently usage is low. That means everybodys disks fill up very very slow.
You can read about some metrics here:

Realistic earnings estimator

New theoretical maximum: 20TB Over the past months I have made continuous small adjustments to the network behavior stats used in the estimator. Most importantly we’ve seen an increase in delete behavior in recent months. Initially I didn’t want to immediately adjust the delete percentage to account for this, but it turned out to be a frequently returning pattern that in the end deserves to be taken into account. It’s still not entirely accounted for in the numbers as it has proven to be intermi…

From my experience so far you can calculate with about 3-4 USD per filled TB per month.