Let's talk about the elephant in the room: The Storj economic model (node operator payout model)

[BrightSilence]

@Balage76

Frankly, I don’t understand the fear about that the network would run out of free space. According to STORJ Network Statistic, 13.8PB is used and 23.2 PB is free space.

There are plenty of potential customers who would want to use more space than the total current network capacity on their own. Those can currently simply not be onboarded. You gotta think big if you want to go exabyte scale.