Very interesting topic which was pleasant to read. I agree with you that SONM is good project with great team, as you mentioned with great partners also.
But can you tell me please why the price should rise and reach x20?
Can you tell me please the economic of this project? In my opinion it is bad for SONM project when the price on token is too high. This will mean that mining(I mean fog calculating, mining is not correct but simple) will become too expensive. How will calculate this perfect balance when customers will get cheap calculation of their data and also workers will get profit higher than from usual mining?
I'll tell you why it shouldn't rise higher first. Sonm is a utility token, which means it's primarely bought to use, unlike for example bitcoin which is bought way more to store and hodl. Because it's bought to use, we're seeing something that's called the velocity principle, which means assets don't rise in value because it's constantly being bought and sold, bought and sold, keeping prices relatively stable. Now, the reason why sonm will still rise despite the velocity principle, is because the number of tokens is limited. Both users and investors will buy the tokens either to keep as an investment, or to keep and spend later, and when inevitably more and more buyers will enter the network (because it's 5x cheaper than traditional sources), the price of the token will also rise, and to my estimations it'll probably be worth over 10$ a piece in less than 2 years from now.
To answer your concern that the tokens shouldn't be too expensive; the tokens can be worth 100$ each, but the fiat price of the network will remain the same. When a deal is agreed upon between two parties, for example buying x amount of computing power during 1 year, the buyer pays the seller whatever the price in dollar of that amount of computing power is at that time. This way, when in a year or two lots of companies are using the network, the token price can rise upwards of 20$ a piece, the price for computing power will remain the same in dollar.