Terrabox free 1tb only includes
- 200mb of ‘privacy space’ (which leads me to assume they can monetise data around the rest of it somehow
- 4gb max file size
- 50mb max video upload
- Ads
- limited download speeds
- No parallel downloads
It’s not comparable to what Autonomi aims to offer.
But, if you want to compare the 2 closer to like for like, compare the 2tb paid plan, available for $36 per year.
That’s $18 per year per TB, and given Autonomi is permanent, assuming that’s worth at least 5x 1 year to a user, we can say the cost per TB of Terabox is $90.
$90 is currently about 220 eMAID, so you’re suggesting that nodes should be happy to offer storage at one 220 billionth the price Terabox is offering. That is not realistic.
It’s not ‘playing into the hands of fiat’. Fiat is a useful unit of account to describe the value of something relative to other things.
You could measure the costs of node operators’ storage / bandwidth / computer hardware in whatever viable way of measuring value you want; fiat, gold, potatoes, and the conclusion would be the same; it doesn’t make economic sense for node operators to offer resources at a price that is a tiny fraction of the cost of providing those resources.
For the network to grow in-line with demand (which is necessary for its survival), the payment for storage needs to be enough to justify node operators expanding their resource provision at a similar rate to demand growth.
Can you please sell me your house / car / phone for 1 nano?
If not, why not?