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It's pretty frustrating to see something that has an easily accessible value (M MBs stored for N seconds consuming X bandwidth) is denominated in the same way that all the other cryptocurrencies are denominated in, as a deflationary good that encourages speculation. If you want to create some token that scale with the value of the system, that's fine, but don't force your users to price their contacts in something that is untethered from the thing they are trying to buy.

What I'd do instead is allow people to store random data to mint new MBseconds at a fractional rate and then the cost of a new contract is trivial. If you want someone to store 1GB for a day the cost of that is well known. The price of storage constantly drops, but the price of a deflationary good that is actually desired will continue to rise. This encurages contact churn.

If you want to have a token that scales with the value of the network/product then just create tokens that generate MBseconds proportional to the fees paid.




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