I like the idea of community satellites. But no project or org would store important data on a community-cloud-storage where the SNOs were completely unpaid. There needs to be money involved as an incentive for node operator not to just leave at the drop of a hat (and take that important data with them).
Remember when trolls threatened to strike even thought they were getting paid?
I could see Storj running a separate satellite for someone like the EHT project where EHTs costs was significantly below retail pricing… and the SNOs that opt-in to that satellite also get paid significantly less as well. But they need to be paid something… or as soon as EHT does something the community dislikes it would cost that community nothing to simply delete all that important black hole data.
Like maybe EHT would pay $0.50/TB and the SNOs that opt-in got $0.10/TB? Storj still needs to make money managing everything.
(Hmmm… as soon as satellites may have different payout rates: would SNOs just dump the cheaper satellites as their nodes fill up?)
Maybe I changed my mind. I thought I liked the idea of community satellites… but perhaps it could never work long-term?