Quote from: mjc on December 29, 2014, 11:30:01 PM

Quote from: l3mmy on December 29, 2014, 10:51:06 PM

Quote from: tokyoghetto on December 29, 2014, 09:18:43 PM

will farmers need to maintain a minimum amount of coins in order to use driveshare?

might be interesting to see what type of valuation Storj can achieve if every node required 10,000 coins to run, sort of like Darkcoin. This would help raise funds for the developers and community.

This can be even broken down based on the amount of HD Space being shared. So for every 1TB a node needs 1000 STJX. This could ensure that the people hosting aren't some hacked servers or a pentuim 286 on an unreliable internet/electricity grid.

This might also stop or hinder blackhats from using stolen storage space to run nodes, as they will have to invest in a node in order to participate.

Currently to use the software sjcx is considered a software license, however in the future that may change.

I like the having to invest to use it however that could present some issues for adoption as the 10,000 per fairly distributed would be 50,000 nodes and nobody would have and sjcx to buy space on the network.

Keep coming with great ideas! #bethecloud

I thought the 10,000 SJCX to be involved in Test Group C was just to rise barrier and have the parties show active interest in the technology. I didn't think that was going to be an on going requirement. As you noted that would limit the number of nodes to 50,000 and remove all SJCX from the market place.

The number to run the node can always be lowered to further decentralization. I just see this as a way to discourage theft of storage space by blackhats. It would also increase the value of Storj giving the community and developers access to more funds to further development.