As you probably know, we’re currently finishing the Beta development of Internxt Drive and Internxt Core. This version is mainly aimed to be used by developers and very early adopters. Drive Beta will be completely free, and Drive’s commercial release will be launched in Q1 2019. This release is expected to be used by individuals in love with blockchain/crypto/decentralization/privacy. We will also start getting in touch with startups and mid-sized corporations so that they start jumping on board. During 2019, we will mainly be focusing on further improving and externally auditing our infrastructure so that more corporations can join Drive. We will very likely go through a seed round during late-2019 so that Drive can keep increasing its growth.

But first things come first. Today, we have published the computations that will determine how much each Core Host will get paid per node (during Beta only one node is allowed per Host). You can view the formulas at the Core section of our whitepaper (refresh the whitepaper in case this isn’t visible). Internxt Core’s network selects nodes in which to allocate space, based on a series of variables. These include latency, Internet speed, bandwidth, uptime, and storage capacity, amongst others. Therefore, when getting files into your node, all these other variables are already being into consideration. That’s why we can very easily compute Core payouts based on that single variable, allocated disk space. Each Host earns €0,01 per file they host. Payouts are computed at the end of each natural month. We process the number of files held by a node at the end of a month, and send the payment, in Internxt tokens. Additionally, we encourage Hosts to hold the Internxt token payments they get every month. To do so, we added an extra 10% reward per 100 INXT tokens held per Host. You can easily estimate how much you can earn per month by using the calculator available on the Core page on our site.