I really have no idea what the “spirit” of a token could be. It was stated, said and repeated many many times also here on the forum, that the sole purpose of this token is the payment for storage and not for speculation:
Disclaimer:
The STORJ Token is intended to facilitate the provision and receipt of data storage and related services through Storj’s software application, which serves as a user interface and development platform on the network. The STORJ Token is not intended to be a digital currency, security, commodity, or any other kind of financial instrument.
I am not a lawyer but if Storj officially claims that but has other intentions then we are likely talking about financial fraud, maybe?
What I mean what does not make sense is if Storj has to buy tokens for SNO payout at a higher price than the price they send it out. And the STORJ token price seems to have only one direction, down. So if they buy tokens at $0.2 but have to send them out when the value is only $0.1 this is what I mean does not make sense.
As @arrogantrabbit has said:
That thinking was one of the initial wrong concepts Storj had:
Therfore they focused on getting storage space providers instead of focusing on getting customers. And today it is even harder with many more providers that are offering S3 compatible object storage. But maybe with Storjs white label solution they can attract companies to run that instead of creating their own thing.