It’s not so much a situation where we’re going to announce reducing what everyone gets paid, or whatever. That may be part of it. But there are a number of initiatives here that are being worked out. What sticks and what doesn’t is part of those strategy sessions that are ongoing and will then be brought to light on Twitter, Blogs, and here in the forum of course.
Consider that we may need to have a more professional type of SNO. One that signs legal agreements and certifies their hardware. Larger operators that can partner as both node and satellite owners. And a system that could “spin up” or “spin down” storage on demand. Certain customers may pay more for geofencing and to have their data on the certified side of the network. They may have needs for high demand times or locations, and that could have different costs and potentially increase revenue for SNO’s.
And also, free tier is probably also unsustainable for the long haul. Perhaps limiting how long something is free before charging or not. I expect changes there.
Of course, for such things we’d need better tooling and node changes to make multinode easier to manage. And Satellite changes. And all of those kind of things need to be hammered out.
And consider, if Satellite operators can make money without using loss leader tools like the token. We can find more Satellite operators being spun up, more data being added, and capacity increasing significantly.
So, I would probably wait for more info from the formal announcements so everyone can have a better idea of the direction we’re going in here. There is a lot more to it than just changing the fundamentals of the existing pricing. As John mentioned, we want Exabyte storage and we’re not going to get there if nodes can’t earn. Just how we are doing it today is going to be changed around, and I would expect there to be incentives for different aspects as it rolls out and permanent ones as well. There is a lot of topics around this in discussion, not all of it is going to happen, and not right away for others that will.
At this point, it’s best to expect that change will happen, but we’ll need more info before really understanding what it is and how it’ll impact SNO’s. But the plan isn’t to pull the rug out from under you. SNO’s are important and the life blood of Storj. We want everyone to earn, and that includes SNO’s. Let’s wait and see what comes, a lot of it is quite exciting sounding and I think people will be happy with a lot of what is coming.