So what am I missing regarding held back fees!

[Alexey]

@rit

I not sure about the “it really doesn’t cover the repair costs” part

Design Draft: Storage Node Graceful Exit

The math is a bit more complecated. Lets take a simple example. A network with 80 storage nodes. All the storage nodes are holding 2TB. Now 45 storage nodes are going offline. Repair gets trigger. Lets take a look what will happen. The repair job has 35 pieces per file available. It has to download only 30 pieces to reconstruct the file. In our example it has to repair all files. In total the repair job will download 30 times 2TB. The price for that is 10$ per TB. -> 600$ The repair job is not…