Starting a new node, worth it in 2024? Also some setup questions

[jammerdan]

@heunland

I think we already mentioned this before, but apparently have to reiterate that everything you are suggesting is already being done. Our Sales and Marketing team are doing a great job cross promoting Storj with the customers of our new acquisitions,

Well then let me repeat:

@jammerdan

To reach the $130K goal they could even offer free space to the existing Valdi and CunoFS customer so they can test more and eventually turn into paying customers for the storage offering.

It seems that more can be done. If there is a goal to reach $130K as monthly payout total and we see $67K total payout in November, it seems there is room to offer much more freebies to potential customers. This would be better than this:

@Bryanm

In advance of customer usage, we store synthetic data and use synthetic egress to maintain that level of payout. We plan to continue to use these tools to keep this average payout rate near these levels until the growth of customer data eliminates the need for the synthetic load.

Instead of synthetic load Storj could more aggressively offer free testing to real customers, which would be much much better than synthetic load and could eventually turn more testing customers into paying customers.

@heunland

We will not discuss specific pricing offered to enterprise customers

I did not even ask for that.
I just stated that I find it strange how Storj space is being offered on the Valdi page now after it has been acquired:

It may be beneficial for Valdi customers to see the regular Storj prices, which are significantly lower than the ones displayed and this could potentially attract more interested customers to try out the storage product.