I'm also into Storj only for supporting the idea and the network.
However, I don't want that the be case forever.
I've already red all you just cited. Here are my concerns:
1. IBM is already in the game and decentralizing:
https://twitter.com/IBMcloud/status/10693965767774412802. If Storj was testing the farmers so far, farmers have also been testing Storj.
I have a 2 TB drive sitting in a box and I never used it for Storj, because it
is not profitable. The stats for my node are jumping by a weird pattern,
which has nothing to do with actual availability.
3. How is Storj going to convince me and all the potential farmers
to put effort and resources in ver 3.0, after seeing how unprofital it
is all the way since ver 1.0 and ver 2.0?
The current payout cannot even cover the electricity consumed by the hard drive itself.
It is not fun to be online 24/7 for pennies.
4. How is my node supposed to be high quality, when they say: "don't invest
in hardware, because we cannot guarantee profitability"?
5. How a Storj node will be fast enough to compete with other nodes
and at the same time "anyone can share their hardrive and make money out of it!"?
6. Is there going to be a storage tiering system? Eg: fast, normal, slow
storage? Why dropping slow nodes, when you can use them?
7. How a consumer grade hardware will be used for Enterprise class service?
Flash storage is the new norm for service providers.
Thanks