I think he’s approaching things from the crypto side: where many projects are trying to give their coin value. That’s kinda their thing: they have to drive up coin value, or die.
Whereas Storj started as a cloud storage company: and they make their money charging customers more ($4/TB/m + egress + segments) than they pay the operators ($1.50/TB/m, times RS, plus egress). And… of the many S3 competitors out there… Storj is unique that it pays its operators in their own token. And customers buy that token for a 10% discount if they want to.
It’s true that Storj started out with a mountain of treasury tokens they paid with (not uncommon), and they’re almost out. But they’ve grown their market, and adjusted payouts, to a point where they’re profitable without the free coins. They can buy the token and send it as payouts forever at this point. The Petagene and Valdi acquisitions put a dent in their finances so I’m sure they’ll still want to use as many tokens as they can though…
@Wasi20908 - for your article you should definately let people know what’s going on. Storj is a company that sells object-storage/s3-tools/GPU-rentals for fiat. And it also has its own token to pay the community that provides space. But it’s not a token you’d buy as an investment (just to get a deal on buying space).