Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source

[sano]

@Antifragile, a while ago I summarized a very long discussion on the SAFE network economic sustainability topic here:

Safenetwork sustainability concerns - Bandwidth has an ongoing cost however Safenetwork is a pay once, benefit forever model

After reading this discussion, I thought it could be beneficial to summarize my interpretation of what I learned in a graphical form. Here it is: [safecon] It’s a chart plotting the development of hypothetical outflows and inflows of economic value into the SAFE ecosystem over time. The all factors combined represent the sum of all costs (storage, bandwidth, CPU, labor…). The virtual baseline represents “lifting” of the zero cost level caused by non-economic forces, like altruism, merit see…

…and re-iterated the main point here:

Permanent data storage + lots of nodes falling away

I apologize for necroposting, but the opening reply in this thread seems incomplete. The Network can increase reward only if the currency has value, which in the question @Dirk83 posed is gone. In other words, previous users of the Network left for greener pastures, so nobody is buying Safecoin, which lost all value as a result. Therefore potential farmers lost the incentive to farm.