As I’ve been entertaining myself with reading the restructuring threads tonight, a recurring question occurs to me. How do SNOs end up with hundreds of TB of data? I’ve been stuck at ~35% utilization for literally years. I have low latency 500/500 fiber internet, but only a single IP address. I woul…

[image] daniel1: What do you think? Is it a good thing that STORJ is indirectly paying for those VPSes? I don’t know how to answer that. STORJ token payouts can be sold for cash, and used on groceries. Or gas. Or a lifesaving medical procedure for a dying child. Or a VPS plan. I guess I hadn’…

[image] Roxor: Removing the /24 rule will simply lower the cost of concentrating nodes. You said so yourself: you’d rather spin up 1000 nodes than 10 VPSs. Ok, crazy idea. What if Storj makes an extra argument in the node config where you can set if you want your node is exempted from the /24…

[image] daniel1: At least the node selector would know not to place too much piece of the same data on the same ip I get the idea. But if the node is less valuable: so much so that it’s trusted with less data… why pay that node at the same rate? It’s quite literally less useful to the network…

IT departments fear specific things here that have never been addressed. In no particular order, and only a few because offering actual ideas is futile, and our time is valuable. Russian concentration of nodes. This needs to be paired back as an equal representation of geography, and perceptions…

@Andrew @zip @Mitsos and everyone else who feels offended. I’d like to apologize to everyone here. I’ve edited my answers and tried to remove all the attacks, and thank you for letting me know that I need to choose my words better. I did not mean to offend people who spent money and hardware to ru…

[image] Roxor: maybe that’s where the unservicable-levels-of-debt came from? You’re right this isn’t some surprise debt that jumped-out-of-the-bushes… so they could have dealt with it earlier. The unservicable-levels-of-debt should have been well known to Inveniam. The unservicable-levels-of…

I certainly did not intend to start a firestorm with my post. The goal of the /24 rule is to prevent too many pieces from being in one geographical location. I agree with this goal. A single disk may die and lose one piece, but a single operator shutting down 100 nodes could have multiple (or all) …

Unfortunately, if we shut down Select, clients who require SOC2 Type II will likely leave. The public network is secure, encrypted, and reliable; it just doesn’t have the necessary certification, and it’s difficult to obtain due to the network’s distributed nature. I don’t have all the details, but…

[image] storaje: The goal of the /24 rule is to prevent too many pieces from being in one geographical location. I agree with this goal. A single disk may die and lose one piece, but a single operator shutting down 100 nodes could have multiple (or all) of the pieces of the same file. [ima…

[image] jammerdan: Instead of creating Select, maybe SOC2 for the global network should have been pursued. I am sure it was faster/cheaper to create the Select network and Storj made a profit from that. Certification usually is very slow, especially on something new and weird (to the regulato…

SNOs with lots of data... How?

Node Operators

jammerdan August 2, 2026, 3:49am 88

The unservicable-levels-of-debt should have been well known to Inveniam.
The unservicable-levels-of-debt should have been part of the acquisition by Inveniam in a way that they cover them. They own Storj. They bough the company with all assets and all debt.

There is a hypothesis they were only interested in the Valdi assset.

As you are saying:

Maybe we should regret to have been acquired by Inveniam?