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> Aside from the oodles of money that the early adopters will make, what am I missing? You're assuming that all the people selling storage will be buying hardw
by Veratyr 9y ago
> Aside from the oodles of money that the early adopters will make, what am I missing?
You're assuming that all the people selling storage will be buying hardware for that sole purpose. In reality, many regular people have some free space on their computer that costs them "nothing" and they can sell very cheaply.
- tommoor 9y agoThere isn't really any incentive for these folks though, It's not worth the hassle, bandwidth, and electricity to give up remaining disk space for a couple of cents / month.
- goldfeld 9y agoExcept if a service facilitates it and aggregates folks' resources to get something nice collectively, like crowdfunding.
- tommoor 9y agoThat's exactly what Filecoin / Sia etc are doing, no? It doesn't make it any more worthwhile for the individual participants providing the storage though
- deegles 9y agoTrue, but my point is that it might not be worth your time to. I can earn money by recycling aluminum cans but it's not worth the effort to me. Is it possible right now to get some hard numbers on what a person would earn if they had say 1TB disk space and 25mbps available?
- tim333 9y agoI doubt hard numbers but Backblaze B2 is $0.005/mo so if it was that much that would be $5/mo for the storage 22c/hr for up/downloads. I guess filecoin would be much less as B2 had 24/7 availability etc. So 2-3 $/mo ?
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