You only seal (the expensive operation) when you add power.
Once you stop sealing you don't need to seal again for ~1 year (depending on your sector lifetime).
Keeping storage power is a cheap computation in comparison.
Once you stop sealing you don't need to seal again for ~1 year (depending on your sector lifetime).
Keeping storage power is a cheap computation in comparison.
I'm assuming there is probably not enough real storage demand yet, so large miners will end up pledging sectors a fair chunk of the time, in order to increase their power, at least while they have spare disk space remaining.