[volunteergrid2-l] New grid? [ was: Membership]

[Ed Kapitein]

Hi Rocke,

Thanks for taking the time to write this mail, i appreciate it!
I will try to cut as much text as possible to keep the reply readable.

On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:19 -0600, RCV's Tahoe Account wrote:
> Hi, Ed.

[1]
> I *think* they wanted 20 "committed" members, not 200 "half-hearted" members.  But,
> probability of holding a share.  At least until a node fills up.  Nodes that offer
> significantly less than the average would tend to fill up quickly, leaving fewer
> nodes for those who add files later in the life of a grid.  I'm sure there's a
> ticket that discusses this in more detail, but I don't know the ticket number.
> [I *think* this is the reason for asking for a similar storage donation from each
> storage server.]
> 

[2]
> Should those providing reliable storage be "paid" a
> stipend?  Should those who use the storage expect to pay a fee to the
> reliable storage nodes?  [I think some of the Tahoe-LAFS developers like
> Bitcoin.  Is there a way (manually) to accept and pay real money as well
> as Bitscript without incurring transaction fees that make this idea
> utterly unworkable?]
> 

Ad [1]: having more members would even out the unbalance between storage
nodes with more storage space and storage nodes with less storage space
wouldn't it.
And i think there are more people able to share 5G or 50G then there are
to share 500G.

Ad [2]: it would be nice if people payed a small fee in bitcoins, we
could use that as a way to administer who has signed up.
There are VPS providers that accept bitcoin too, so we could run the
introducer on a VPS that way.
Perhaps we can generate a "high score" where people can see who has the
best track record over the past month (quarter, year?) in  keeping their
storage node up and running.

Again thanks for taking the time to discuss all of this.

Kind regards,
Ed