Trust process is too long

I agree to that. Each storage node can be on run in a totally different (hardware) environment and has to prove its reliability independently.
However 2 things maybe worth to consider:

  1. Once a node has proven to be reliable to one satellite, other satellites could take over the trust. Especially if those satellites are run by the same entity. Maybe there could be some setting for the satellite owner for example to trust the Storj satellites and take over the trust level for their nodes.
  2. Also I had my own thread with the suggestion to at least not artificially halt the vetting process for full nodes. As current vetting process requires the node to hold data from the respective satellite. If a node is full there is no such data and therefore no vetting can take place unless the satellite can place data pieces on it.
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