Hello @ykroshkin,
Welcome to the forum!
You may refresh the total earned and total held by restarting the node, it reads these values only on start. @arrogantrabbit is correct on many aspects:
- we suggest to use only what you have now which will be online with Storj or without, only in that case any earnings will be a pure profit, because you already paying your invoices for that online hardware, so any return is a nice discount to your bills;
- the statistic on the dashboard is estimated based on Avg Disk Used this month, but this metric is provided by satellites not regularly and sometimes not full, because it might take more than a day to calculate it and this process can fail. However, this metric is not used to calculate a payout, it’s used only to estimate usage accounted on the satellite and estimate a future payout on your dashboard.
- the correct numbers are calculated from orders, which node sends to the satellites after successful upload or download, these orders are used to calculate a real payout in the end of each month. Before payout is completed you can see only estimations made by the node, and usually they should be close to what is going to be paid, but if it has missing data, the estimation will be wrong. When the payout is completed, satellites sends receipts to nodes and you can see them in the Payout History with real numbers and TX link, if your node was able to clear a minimum payout threshold. If the node was unable to clear it - the unpaid amount will be increased instead.
- Starting September 1, 2026 the payout rates are reduced (see Rightsizing Storj Network Payout Rates), but I believe that the node is still use old rates to calculate estimations. I hope it will be fixed in a new release.
The negative unpaid amount is a result of prepayments, see
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