"you’ll be paid in STORJ Token." https://www.storj.io/node

This statement basically makes me unable to take this seriously.

At "Egress Bandwidth $20/TB" it should pay off to buy up all the cheap hetzner servers and convert them to storj nodes. They would pay themselves back after 2 TB and then you are off making profit.

But wait, there is more:

They charge 7$ for egress bandwidth... How can they pay 20$ to the one providing the bandwidth. Oh, right they don't actually pay the operator, they give you a crypto token.

So all in all paying for storj feels like supporting yet another crypto scheme.