Yeah, I would only want to go down to $8, maybe $6 per TB/month, otherwise it's not worth the feeling of having other people relying on the service to me.
I was able to acquire my drives in bulk for a really good price, so even if I liquidated all at $30/TB I would have a comfortable profit overall and the future potential of BURST.
I've bought more coins than I have mined at this point and I do have faith in BURST, especially as the first HDD-mineable crypto. As it becomes more user-friendly, automated, and "turn-key" for the end user, I think it will continue to grow. Major selling points are you can mine with relatively affordable non-esoteric hardware, it is one of the most profitable coins to mine for your dollar spent on hardware (right?), and the drives basically retain their resale value until they die/fail.
I honestly don't think the BURST marketplace / exchange will be very important to people who hear of BURST as a way to sit back and earn BTC with your extra HDD space. However, I think marketing BURST in this way would take It to a new level, it is just not easy enough to use to try to market it this way yet.
As long as BURST enters that "turn-key" realm before another HDD coin comes along and beats to the punch, BURST will explode, I think.
Just my 2 BURST
mm, i think ur right. Easy btc won't even necessarily have such a negative effect on burst...it will bring in a lot of p&d groups, and as the netdiff goes up, the dumping will still take the price up. Something like that at least, just the publicity is good
But yeah....we need to keep developing
Well, it would have to be marketed to try to get at least some users to hold their burst. The compounding benefit of holding burst would encourage some people to hold; you know, if burst/btc rises, and btc/usd rises during the same time, you make a lot more from holding burst.
I wish I could be of more help to make burst more user friendly, but I have no programming skills. I am good with business, though. A lot of people would at least test out a program where you "download this. Open it. Click here to choose the drive to plot. Click here to plot the drive. Fill in details of the pool of your choice and set your reward assignment. Now, click here to mine burst."
I know it is incredibly complicated and time consuming to put something like this together, but I really think adoption will be modest without something the layman can plug and play. There is still a ton of growth potential with or without a single cohesive gui application, though.
EDIT: Regarding people dumping burst for btc; most people won't have a lot of disk space to mine with. Once they get comfortable mining burst and thinking "hey, this is actually pretty awesome" at least some of them will start buying on the exchanges to get even more burst more quickly.