Storage Nodes Full of Test Data

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@Pac

Storj do not pay us in dollars/euros, but in STORJ tokens that they mine themselves (I guess?). Doesn’t that mean that SNOs’ payments could be more or less unrelated to clients’ payments?

STORJ doesn’t mine STORJ tokens. There is a fixed total amount that can never change. They have large reserves for now but when that’s gone they will be forced to buy them back themselves to pay SNOs. You should see the token as just an intermediate, it’s not a magic way for them to create money where there is none.

@Pac

Storj are always going to be paid via trafic, globally (coming from all clients), whereas it might not be the case for some SNOs if their disks are full. Maybe most of the money collected for storing data could be paid to SNOs, like 3$ per stored TB.

This could be an option, though there is something to say for paying nodes for the actual thing that brings value. I wouldn’t worry about the egress problem for nodes that are full too much as this is clearly an artifact of how specific test patterns are handled and this most likely will not be the case when most data on the network is actual customer data. So to a certain extent I think you’re trying to fix a problem that will no longer exist when the network is in full use.