Yeah the article doesn’t make sense. It seems to assume exponential demand increases without the same increases in pay.

Crypto-mining of any kind doesn’t work that way.

Either the article/backblaze is wrong or Chia as a whole is going to quickly collapse.

> To quickly understand what costs would look like, we used our standard pricing of $5/TB/month as our effective 'cost'

Price is not cost! Far from it (I hope).

Not sure why backblaze used ssd numbers when you can run cheaper magnetic drives:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/odox2x/working_on_my_...