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📣 crlssn

Passive income with 1 Gb/s and 10 TB storage?


I recently upgraded my internet connection to symmetrical fiber and I wonder if it's possible to somehow earn a passive income with it. I have an unused raspberry pi and 10 TB of storage at my disposal.

I've looked at Sia (https://sia.tech) but the rewards are only ~1$ per TB/month. Are there any other options out there?


  👤 cpach Accepted Answer ✓
TBH, storage and connectivity is quite cheap these days. So I’m not sure you have enough edge just by that, in order to earn an income.

I would recommend buying index funds every month. $20 is more than $0 dollars. (If you can spare more than that, even better.) It will give you a passive income over time.


👤 mustardo
StoreJ (formerly Tardigrade) https://www.storj.io/how-it-works

From https://www.storj.io/node

Average Payout Per Month...

Egress Bandwidth $20/TB

Repair Egress Bandwidth $10/TB

Disk Space $1.50/TB

Audit Bandwidth $10/TB

I have never tried to use it and have no affiliation


👤 zakki
Reading from “SaaS generating usd 500/month” thread, I believe you can create SaaS and host it in your home.

👤 donkarma
nothing good can come from selling your internet connection, if you do that say goodbye to having a non-blacklisted IP. if you make a plex server with the storage and connection you can save yourself streaming fees if you pay that already?

👤 tluyben2
It would be a race to the bottom for that, I mean, I would pay for cheap backup but I currently pay 40$/mo for 25TB so even that is not really something either.

👤 killingtime74
Almost everyone has 1 gig symmetric here in NZ. You can get up to 8. I’m not sure you’ll break even on electricity

👤 _hhff
If you’re in a low coverage area for the Helium network, I’ve heard you can make decent money setting up a miner: https://www.helium.com/

👤 plumeria
An IPFS pinning service? [0]

[0] https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/persistence/


👤 vgeek
Plex share?