Quote from: allgoodthings1 on December 17, 2015, 04:51:10 PM

Thanks so much for all you've contributed to this discussion! I appreciate your being in contact with the project -- much more that I am, really. The online documentation for the project has come along nicely, but of course it still doesn't address a lot of questions.

One I'd really like to know about for sure.. is whether at this stage of development, one has to deposit the 10k of SJCX to get any payouts for running DriveShare. I rather understood that the 10k deposit requirement was for doing earlier beta testing, but that it's not the case now for those that might download and start running the new GUI I referenced at the outset.

I did put a few coins in my SJCX wallet on Counterparty, and my GUI on both platforms does reference and show my balance in the wallet. But I have nowhere near 10k coins there, and am a bit reluctant to load up that wallet now, if I don't have to. But I would like to get paid -- whatever the small payout might be, and however infrequently payouts are made -- so I would probably go ahead now and deposit the 10K, if that's still required.

Maybe you can make inquiry about this for me and others that are interested? Thanks, again.

Thanks for the positive feedback, its truly appreciated.

Regarding the 10K, that is an easy one: Yes. Only people with at least 10K per address will be eligible for testing payouts, whenever they decide to do that. Currently you can have up to 25TB associated with an address, but I hear that is going to drop to 10TB in the future. No idea why.

Minor update per the current live chat with the Storj Founder:

The 10K cost has a couple of rationals... its consistent with the investment made by the original crowd-sourcing folks... It also prevents having to deal with, at least at this point, a lot of low end payout people (someone that just joined for a brief period or only added a MB of storage).

Payouts will come monthly when they get the scripts fixed (working now) and will improve over time (twice a month, weekly, daily, ... to realtime)

The 0.5 GUI will have some of the basic issues fixed, like auto-starting upon reboot. That code is being worked now.