Assuming: we have plenty of SNOs and are willing to lose some to have more STORJ locked or moving (to increase its sell price, to extend runway).
- Maybe formalize a client or install option that lets you offer space to pay-for-space. Right now it’s manual.. or specifying your Satellite wallet as your node payout address. Or offer it as an option to other community or open-source projects. (i.e. tell them “have your community install this special installer, and the space they choose to share will fund your project’s S3 storage”). This points more not-bought-from-market STORJ back to the company
- Maybe merge the idea of SNOs providing-and-paying-for space with the Object Mount system? Like a regular S3 customer would need to license it… but a node install could have a limited-functionality version baked in? Basically encourage SNOs to use their payout for something other than selling to fiat… by making it stupid easy to have locally-mounted-Cloud-storage. (something iXsystems could get some pennies from too?)
- Maybe turn the withholding system into more of a forced-staking system? Like a certain percentage of payout will be required to share so much space… and as a SNO gets more used-space their payouts get trimmed to make sure they’re always “staking” enough for that level of sharing?
- Are there special-sales or cobranding opportunites? Like special “STORJ Pricing” for HDDs from ServerPartDeals - where customers still get a deal.. but STORJ also makes a margin… and the benefit to the SNOs is they can pay with tokens (even if the deal is slightly worse than just paying with fiat)?
- Could Valdi buyers get a discount paying with STORJ? (perhaps the increase in STORJ volumes… and a rise in the value of the remaining treasury tokens… would offset the reduced in-fiat payments?)
We’ll have to sleep on it and think of more! 