It most certainly has cookies. I'm kinda insulted you asked.
You keep assuming that payment of storage is going to be in Safecoins but I have to reiterate just one more time that storage will be FREE on the SAFE network. This will significantly reduce friction for user acquisition for MaidSafe and make things a lot harder for you to pay your nodes and charge the users. Free market rulz -->
C.R.E.A.MMy suggestion to you is to work your ass of on hunting down devs to use your platform to add value because user acquisition is going to be hard without a superior product.
Well I've done my job here. Now back to being depressed after listening to Adam Backs
Bitcoin sidechain project which has the potential to singlehandedly destroy all alt-chains (except MaidSafe of course

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I guess my investing days are going to be rather short. Going to be interesting to see how this is going to pan out...
I guess I don't understand why you have a limited amount of vaults this a finate amount of space, and have it be able to store unlimited data for free.
Even if it is "free" then I can still turn around and sell it. If someone gave me free and unlimited Bitcoins I'd turn around and sell it on Bitstamp.
I can cut Dropbox prices in half and offer a similar service. Using the best server I can find for $30/month it can generate a monthly profit of $13,696. Sure that won't last as the market corrects, but perhaps will last longer than you think. Dropbox has gotten away with charging 100x for the past few years reselling Amazon S3.
There is nothing stopping us from also developing nodes specifically for Maidsafe with the exact same software, but Storj can continue to make a profit regardless.
Gotta diversify.