Update Proposal for Storage Node Operators - Open for Comments

[tylkomat]

@Pentium100

“Using only what you have online anyway” sounds great, but doesn’t work for most people

And that is perfectly fine. Those people should just accept the reality and find something else that is suited for them, instead of complaining that it is not for them.

Quoting myself:

Use an existing online hardware vs investments && ROI expectation

What is misunderstood by many people is that Storj doesn’t target the Average Joe to become a SNO. They target people who have larger home servers for whatever reason or run businesses where they also manage their own hardware. In this cases it makes sense to have a larger amount of unused hardware. The marketing team framed it include everyone, but in reality the pricing already excludes John Doe with his only 500GB HDD that he had lying around in a closet for a couple of years.

@Pentium100

For example, I would not run an ASIC miner if it made 2EUR/month over the cost of electricity, because even that “profit” would just be eaten by exchange and transfer fees.

If it is eaten, fine, but otherwise a profit is a profit doesn’t matter how small.