What is the current node cost?It’s mean that miners’ operating costs.

Storj is not mining. It depends on what you plan to do. If you already have a PC and free hard drive space you only have the electricity bill. Otherwise you have to pay for a server and hard drive, but Storj advises against investing in new hardware. I run almost all of my nodes with RaspberryPi…

Okay, how much does it cost for a person who wants to become a miner, including hardware and electricity bills?

This is not mining, that’s the point :slight_smile: The bandwidth and storage are used by real people with real data, thus no predictable income. You can’t use the past usage to predict a future usage. However, you can use this Community Earnings Estimator to have an idea: [image] …

Non fact based and opinion only! below Using US$ for a basic node you’ll need Internet Connection maybe $40 per month Raspberry Pi 4 maybe $50 Disk space maybe $20 per TB, 8TB would be good. For this you could get return of rising from $0 at the start to $30 per month after a year.

My calculation looks similar but it differes in a few points. I pay for my internet anyway. It would be nice if my storage node could pay for a 5€ speed upgrade. If not I will simply downgrade to my old internet connection and pay that as I would without storj. I am currently using some old hard d…

It is true. If you have a desk like mine you could make a storagenode for the cost of an ethernet cable. [IMG_20201021_184209] (Thats 12TB + 1TB + 1TB ssd plus two pi 4) Do you like the new heatsink, Don?