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Sia
Trello
CoinMarketCap
Pixeldrain
Steemit
Amazon Web Services
Poloniex
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Check the Sia public roadmap:
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
For Q1, according to public roadmap
Simple file sharing - share files with other Sia users
Ability to recover your files using only your wallet seed
Form file contracts in 5 minutes instead of 60 minutes
Support for partial downloads - download only a fragment of a file, and download fragments in any user-chosen order
Ability to recover files from an outdated backup of the renter directory
User experience improvements to allowance
Overhauled Sia-UI
Extend API to include additional metadata
Ongoing bug fixes, testing upgrades, and overall stability improvements
Medium Term (no date specified)
Video streaming
Proper support for tiny files (reduce minimum file size from 40 MB to ~100 KB)
Automatic host pricing
Ability to set price vs. performance preferences, including ability to blacklist or whitelist hosts
Scale the renter to support >10 TB of files at a time
Ability to see host uptime
Add proof-of-burn mechanism to hosts
Add bandwidth limiter
Long Term (no date specified)
File sharing - share files with users who are not on Sia
Support for mobile wallets and other lite clients
Hope this helps!
Biggest reasons to invest in Sia are all right here.
- File sharing - Next release
- Video streaming- 6-10 months
- Proof-of-Burn - 6-10 months (slows inflation)
- Complex File Sharing - 18+ months (share files with users not on Sia)
what i don't understand is how all of these coins exist and do well WITHOUT a development team and a wonderful idea and then you have THIS stacked list of people making siacoin and its not 25 cents yet!
There are so many inaccuracies in here. Firstly, I hate comparisons of Sia to AWS. Amazon is a complete package of cloud services. I hope Sia could one day partner with other such blockchain related projects that offer similar services, but Sia alone does not.
> Amazon cloud services for instance start at over $20 per terabyte of data stored. In comparison, Siacoin charges a low fee of $2 per terabyte.
There are other services which are cheaper to Amazon, that for storage alone, offer a decent service. Also, Sia has not yet reached it's $2/TB goal
> That’s because they have decided to fork the network and make it ASIC resistant.
Is wholly incorrect.
https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q3.pdf
This is the official link to the Q3 sia foundation transparency report. People are overlooking this coin by far! Once this “gem” is in public light you’ll never see it at this price level again.
-6 years in the works -on its own blockchain -SkyNet -Homescreen feature -V2 blockchain soon -True front end decentralization
Spread the word 🙌🏼
True they will exist, but the project will die without a star lead figurehead. Sia/Nebulous/Obelisk will go down b/c they do not have the salaried members listed here: https://sia.tech/about
This typically means the community steps in and replaces them. However, if you look at a project like Ethereum where VB and his peers have been leading it and then remove them all and let whoever from the community manage step in and manage it.. you'd end up with ETH Classic. A grossly inferior product due to the team running it. No MetaMask, no tokens (less than 5 are active), poor documentation/tutorials, No easy onboarding of Devs, No future Sharding/Plasma/Raiden, etc. A product that is 1/25th the value of the original. Im even a fan of ETC, but damn its annoying to see all the cool stuff ETH is getting while the biggest thing to happen to ETC was Callisto tech-wise.
Now you mentioned "Maybe Sell obelisk assets.", While this is not ideal, it may come down to it as a final push to liquidate. The following companies are interested in Mining, while others are interested in selling mining equipment to consumers. If the SIA team is listening, you might want to reach out to AMD, NVIDIA, Samsung, The Japanese Titans of GMO Internet Inc and SBI Group. There is another Japanese company but I cant seem to remember them. GMO has $330 million dedicated for R&D to make ASICs and I think SBI was double or triple that. I think selling/leasing to them would give them a massive advantage over their local competitors and be very much worth it for both parties. Ya know, something they could use in advertising like "We were the first to bring a powerful yet quiet ASIC to Japan"
That's what can help SIA project: “We are thrilled to receive INBlockchain’s generous grant and look forward to continuing Sia development,” said David Vorick, cofounder and CEO of Nebulous. “This grant means Sia does not need to focus on fundraising, and can focus entirely on delivering strong technology.” from the link posted
Let's go to v1.3.0
Historically we are peaking, but that's not taking into account what can come in the future.
I would like to suggest you take a look at their public development roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
Also, if you do some more digging around the web you'll find the consensus from other developers is a big thumbs up to the Sia dev team.
You couple the above information with the Sia dev's team ethos of a truly decentralized storage service (ie Nebulous disappears but the network continues on.), and you have one hell of an investment.
The other real competitor in my opinion is Storj, but they are far too centralized relying on 3rd parties...ewww.
Just my 2 cents.
Always happy to see a new face and let me say welcome to the web 3.0! This sub reddit is meant specifically for questions and information regarding the technology (Sia and Skynet). Any type of trading or price discussion is freely allowed in r/siatrader. There is also r/siamining for things related to mining Siacoin. If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask.
I am not a legal expert but, in essence, this does not seem so very different from Slack's Terms of Service:
> Subject to the terms and conditions of the Contract, Customer (for itself and all of its Authorized Users) grants us and the Slack Extended Family a worldwide, non-exclusive, limited term license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, perform, export and display Customer Data, and any Non-Slack Products created by or for Customer, only as reasonably necessary (a) to provide, maintain and improve the Services; (b) to prevent or address service, security, support or technical issues; (c) as required by law or as permitted by the Data Request Policy; and (d) as expressly permitted in writing by Customer. Customer represents and warrants that it has secured all rights in and to Customer Data from its Authorized Users as may be necessary to grant this license.
>Is it possible to share my data on SIA with others?
Sharing with other Sia users should be possible soon. Sharing with non-Sia users is much further off. Check here for details.
>Also, is it possible to store the data on SIA, and delete it from my local disk?
Yes, this was enabled recently - previously, you needed a local copy of the file to repair the Sia file if necessary.
Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. There are two main reasons this won't happen for a while, if at all.
1) Siacoin is a utility token used to facilitate buying/selling storage, not to store wealth on a hardware wallet. This means interacting with with siac and siad, the two tools that manage Sia's storage platform on a full node.
2) Although on the roadmap, lite wallets (wallets that don't require a full node or syncing the blockchain to run, which is needed for a hardware wallet to exist) isn't their highest priority. The reason for this is pretty much explained by #1.
Although holding Siacoin as investment is wise (IMO), it's not the main function of the token and therefore not a lot of resources will be given to treating it as a currency similar to BTC, DASH, DCR, LTC, etc.
You can reference the roadmap for a list of features planned for the next release. Aside from that, I think the general target for now is just September.
Have you looked at the road map?
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
I'm right behind this project, but let's be realistic here. 10% of the current storage market by end of year is a bit naive.
If Sia is 10c by end of year, it will be a great year.
Application Program Interface. It allows a program or website to be used by other programs or websites. For instance google has tons of API's for their features. If you own a website you can use the google API for something like google maps and put it on your website, giving the google maps functionality to a part of your site through google API.
Another example is I am making a desktop application to pull the coin prices from the web. I will use https://coinmarketcap.com/api/ which allows me to get an individual coins price.
Sia is essentially an application with a big API protocol allowing other applications or websites to be built on top of it (the SiaUI as an example).
Hi there, you can check the Sia public feature roadmap: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap.
Take a look also at this technical roadmap published 3 months ago, detailing at a bit deeper technical level how the next big features (metadata backups, file recovery just using your wallet seed and file sharing) are going to be implemented: https://blog.sia.tech/sia-technical-update-and-roadmap-8f0fc42eb815
Welcome to Sia! It is functioning platform with costs much less than $5 per month. You can check prices here https://siahub.info. Also we expect new software update release shortly that will improve user experience. You can track their roadmap here https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
my 2 cents - -Swarm is a storage layer built into ethereum (future releases at some point). While any kind of content can be theoretically stored on it (if im not mistaken), it's mainly meant for the storing of Dapps that utilize smart contracts - i.e. your exchange or market's landing page can be accessed on swarm through ethereum's Mist browser and not on a server/host/vps/etc. Swarm has a whitepaper released, but it's not in it's complete form and no one can say for sure what the final product is going to look like as incentivization hasn't been implemented yet (last I checked). Incentives might be paid by fees on the market's dapp landing page, trading fees, commissions the dapp might charge, etc. My guess is as good as yours.
-Sia isn't a storage layer protocol on another coin, but is the storage network itself - storage is the primary purpose, not a secondary purpose. At the moment it looks like it has more dropbox functionality than something like accessing a webpage, but the system allows for storing just about anything. You can do this right now - Sia isn't still only a concept on a whitepaper - the system is live and ready for use, glitches happening here and there, but updates every month with a very responsive team and community. And it's not a mystery where the project is going - there's a roadmap published for it on trello so you'll be able to draw your own comparisons as other projects/concepts/vaporware(filecoin,*cough) start to materialize - https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
Outbound bandwidth on AWS Ec2 is 15 cents a GB. (150 bucks a TB)
AWS has the highest bandwidth costs in the industry, which makes direct connects such a hot item. If you leave this up and it gets any adoption , do not be surprised by a 10 thousand dollar bandwidth bill.
Out of network links straight from hosts is planned:
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
But until then out of all the cloud providers AWS has to be the worst place to host this , I recommend moving this to digital ocean or Vultr immediately.
It's a ~June release, not a "firmly June" release.
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
They put out release candidates last week and they're watching those for stability issues. Real release probably coming in the next week or so.
Hi, and if you are new to Sia, welcome! :)
Sia is a decentralized, trustless platform. Those two buzz words back a lot of novelty and punch, and the result is that Sia is a lot harder to use than traditional platforms. Payments need to be made in cryptocurrency - traditional money carries a lot of inherent trust. Cryptocurrency requires a blockchain - this means it can take hours to get started because you have to download and process the entire history of the network. Other roadbumps that new users have to deal with are also usually for decentralization + cryptographic reasons.
Our next release will feature several UX upgrades, including instant wallet unlocking, and support for user-chosen passwords to the wallet (instead of forcing users to use seeds). Future upgrades will include faster blockchain downloading, and we will be continuing to look at the new-user process and making it easier and easier to get started.
You can see a lot of our plans in the public roadmap: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
You can use Sia on Ledger Nano S! You should read through the instructions first though, the process is still a bit complex:
https://support.sia.tech/article/1tteqxvgh0-sia-ledger
This will change over time, and Ledger support will be integrated into Sia-UI, our official app. Until then, Sia-UI is your safest bet:
This sounds like a better use case for Pixeldrain.com. Pixeldrain is a file sharing site that holds files temporarily and allows them to be shared with a link. It's run by Sia community member /u/Fornax96. It's currently free, but files get deleted after a certain amount of time I think.
David mentioned Patreon as an option. I had not heard of this before his post but essentially you ask the community to fund creators (musicians, artists, developers, etc.) so the financial part of creating is less of a burden. In return for funding the dev team $10, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, etc, you would receive something from Nebulous, ranging in value based on how much you're funding the dev team a month.
He mentioned that the guy who runs http://vuejs.org is funded in this way and it significantly advances JavaScript. That guy has ~$9k/month coming from this which means he doesn't need to do consulting or moonlight to keep it going.
I would consider pitching in like $50-100/mo to Nebulous if the kickbacks were valuable.
> What are your thoughts about the future where there will be way more hosts and probably even cheaper contracts?
The important thing to keep in mind is that hosting is not profitable yet. Probably 99% of hosts are making pennies per month, so it's not really worth anyone's trouble to be a host. The people hosting are enthusiasts who want to play with the platform regardless of platform.
The future we're hoping for is one where there's a function market where supply meets demand.
Right now, it's difficult to rent, so very few people are doing it. Aside from the challenge of getting Siacon so you can participate at all, the software just isn't there yet. You can use Sia-UI to upload a file or folder at a time, but that's not how anyone really uses storage.
Once the rental experience improves (and the short term roadmap is all about renter improvements), hopefully we attract more renters who have a higher demand for data. Then we can actually have a functioning market where hosts are attracted to the platform because there's actual demand from renters.
A genie appears and tells you that you get to pick one feature from the Sia public roadmap or make up your own feature that's similar in scope to items in the roadmap. It goes into the November Sia release at zero cost for dev implementation.
Which feature would you choose?
Strong resistance at 100 satoshi. Next update coming in (or around) November. Check the public roadmap on Trello for more information.
No one can tell you how the price will move up or when, but considering the points above it's safe to say it will go up. Personally I see a bright future for Siacoin. Patience is key.
The renter market is still very immature, so the prices don't make sense yet. In particular:
- It's difficult for renters to understand the price they'll be paying for data contracts
- Should be fixed by more transparent pricing in the UI.
- Rational hosts would adjust their price to compensate for fluctuations in Siacoin price, but this is a very manual process that not many hosts understand how to do, so host prices aren't at rational values.
- Should be fixed by auto host pricing.
- Supply far exceeds demand, so there isn't real competition among hosts because hosts can't sell enough space for the money to be interesting.
- Hopefully will be solved as the software matures and real businesses begin using Sia for data backup (e.g. if this project works out).
You can find the roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
As for price it's just my opinion but Sia is just getting started. If you do your research you will see it's a solid and very talented team, regular development activities and have a great project that has real world needs/ uses.
I bet it's quite humbling for the team because they mentioned themselves that their marketing is not so great at the moment and that they are concentrating on the codebase for now (I read they are more developer geeks than marketers) but despite that to have so many people start to talk and get excited about the project before marketing even ramps up is testament itself that the project is on the tracks to greatness.
They were just doing a security maintenance/upgrade and froze the market for 24 hours. You guys need to stop losing your shit, and stop blaming the devs about every little thing, millionaires aren't born over night. https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2018.04.06-Circle-Poloniex-Journey-Six-Weeks-In/
Or, they're overwhelmed with the traffic.
There's been a HUGE rush of people moving into crypto these past few weeks, just look at the volumes. They did address this by releasing a public statement: https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2017.05.16-Industry-growth-and-its-effect-on-Poloniex/
It's growing pains - and they will adapt, but it will take time and money, which they now have - I have been trading with them for the past few months without issue nor complaint personally. But I have traded on far riskier/shadier exchanges, and they're not on the same level by far (cough cryptsy cough).
Sia wouldn't really make a difference in these cases. When law enforcement takes down a site, they're taking down the front end web server. Sia is back end storage. The most Sia could do is store a resilient backup of the data, but a lot of services can do that.
There's maybe a future where Sia could host web sites if they're totally static (similar to hosting on S3 or Github pages, where the web site can be implemented entirely in HTML/CSS/JS), but we're probably at least a year away from something where that's even a possibility.
Here's an article where coinbase mentions exploring support for Sia.
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-support-for-new-digital-assets-2c5b84813fcf
Page five covers the fact that Sia has supplied all required documentation.
Try updating the wallet to the most up to date version at https://sia.tech.
FYI for any future issues or bugs - I'd recommend hopping on Discord and going to the #help channel. You'll get lots of smart and friendly people to quickly help you out.
https://discordapp.com/invite/sia
Cheers!
Personally, I don't like Discord and even though Slack wasn't too good either I was there for a some time now, but I won't be following you there, so hopefully you will add some newsletter so when #announcements are posted we get notified as well, please.
Also, if it's not a done deal, it would be nice if you could check on https://matrix.org/ it's more in-line with the spirit of Sia etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vandyke.siamobile
File upload and download is in the works. Although right now that will require a full copy of the blockchain so it's not very convenient. Hopefully Sia will implement some way around that
>1) Are small files supported? The roadmap (https://trello.com/c/w2uVWQvI/67-proper-support-for-tiny-files-reduce-minimum-file-size-from-40-mb-to-100kb) says "Proper support for tiny files (reduce minimum file size from 40 MB to ~100kb)". That implies tiny files are not supported.
Small files work, but they cost as much as 40 MB files. So if you uploaded 1 TB of data, you'd pay much more if they're lots of 100K files as opposed to ten 100 GB files.
>2) Are changes automatically synced? Can I just select my folder and SIa keeps care of uploading modified files etc.?
They're not. If you're interested in that functionality, your best bet is to wait until the Minio integration stabilizes. That provides an S3 compatible interface to Sia. That way, you can set up Sia+Minio and sync your files automatically using existing S3 sync tools that are more mature than Sia-UI.
Yeah, the price volatility is a problem for both hosts and renters, because most people think in fiat rather than SC, so they don't want to see huge fluctuations in the SC/USD exchange rate.
In practice, hosts don't change their prices much because it requires them to adjust it manually. Hosting isn't very lucrative at the moment, so it's not worth the time for most hosts to actively manage their pricing to that degree. If you look at network prices during the big Siacoin rally in July 2017, it didn't affect average host prices much.
Automatic host pricing is on the roadmap, but won't be available in the short term. When that becomes available, we might see hosts reacting more immediately to changes in the exchange rate.
BTW: Congrats on reaching 5 PB!
I'm noticing that the majority of your posts are just tweets, many of them lacking context. Posting tweets when something interesting is announced is fine, but please try to do the following:
- Limit these posts to new announcements. Video streaming has been on the Sia roadmap for months.
- Summarize the tweet if directly quoting makes no sense out of context. For example, "definitely possible to build that in the future" makes no sense because the reader has no idea what "that" refers to without clicking the link. A better submission title would be something like, "Nebulous confirms decentralized video streaming will be possible in future versions of Sia."
First.. FFS.. you aren't investing in Nebulous by buying/trading Sia coins... You are speculating that someday they'll be worth more than a penny or two.
Second.. Did you not read the announcement? They removed the price drop clause. Spreading this FUD hours after it's been updated makes you look like a complete donkey.
As I said in another post, the Devs have zero obligation to any of us who have coins to drive the price of those coins up. The only people they have an obligation to is to the people who have funded Nebulous. Prices of coins will go up as they release features that get adopted, you can easily see what's on the roadmap
Or.. you could always whip up a team to build some cool application on top of the Sia network..
This is unlikely to be a feature in Sia directly because the current roadmap is focused on paying the file hosts rather than the content creators.
That said, this is a very conceivable scenario for a layer on top of Sia. When they implement file sharing for users not on Sia, then Sia becomes just a storage backend like S3 or GCS. From the user's perspective, they don't care where the file is stored.
A flow might look like:
- You upload a file to Sia and pay a storage contract price in Siacoin
- You advertise the file on your own web site for $5
- User pays you in whatever payment channel you accept (e.g. credit card, Bitcoin).
- You pay the Sia hosts for the download bandwidth in Siacoin
- Sia hosts provide you with a one-time token that grants the right to download the file
- You send the token and the Sia decryption key for that file to the user
- A Sia JS client-side library downloads and decrypts the file using the token and decryption key
> Why would anyone use storj to stream?
I'm not sure, but I know Sia has video streaming in it's roadmap, in the next 6 months. https://trello.com/c/VUcOuqBw/66-video-streaming
> Sia holds your money hostage if you're a farmer as collateral.
Trade offs... enforces hosts to behave vs having money tied up that could be used for renting more space.
> Requires a deposit of SIA coin before-hand in order to rent space on the network. > Only allows the payment with the native SIA cryptocurrency.
These feel like the same point. A little hurdle for Sia renters. Could be addressed if it was on more exchanges. With Bitcoin easier to get your hands onto now... plenty of altcoin exchanges. The extra work could be justified in Sia's low prices.
> Difficult to scale and handle large data volumes due to blockchain limitations.
Not 100% sure about this... I do remember reading somewhere on the Sia forums that they could support an unlimited amount of storage but a ceiling of 200k users
>Requires the download the entire blockchain first in order to become a farmer, which requires allot of space and hours of synchronization.
This is a legitimate con, but it seems like they're addressing it. https://trello.com/c/txH6OqAm/61-initial-blockchain-sync-time-to-be-reduced
Pros of Storj, at the moment do seem to be > Very easy to use for individuals and corporations due to (1) variety of accepted payment methods, (2) Easy GUI interfaces
> Largest network.
I do wonder... when they say 20k farmers, they're talking about registered right? Not online, so how many farmers are online?
Not sure about the other points.
Not a good idea. It only increases their backlog:
"Submission of repeat tickets only increases our backlog and does not get your ticket reviewed faster. Manual effort must be expended to identify, match, and consolidate tickets to ensure the issue has been addressed. Repeat submission needlessly slows resolution not only of your ticket, but of all other outstanding tickets."
It took me 20 minutes to write a file storage script to backup some folders after reading their documentation. Which is at worst adequate and at best better than average: https://sia.tech/docs/. From a developers standpoint it seems clear to me. My understanding is that their current target audience is developers.
Edit: oops here's the right link https://siasky.net/docs
Thanks for reading!
There is a roadmap feature that should achieve what you're describing. The idea is that hosts would set their price in fiat terms and adjust their rates up or down as the price of SC changes. I don't think it's something we'll see in the short term, though.
> Are your files encrypted on others peoples storage that you have a contract with? I presume so, just want to make sure
Absolutely. The files are encrypted with Twofish-256, and sharded out to all the hosts so that no single host as all your data.
> Are the developers active on this project? Where can I see updates. Will the UI be improved?
Developers are highly active. You can check their github for their development activity. For conversation, they're active on our [discord server](discord.gg/sia)
> Where can I find a roadmap?
It's linked in the sidebar, but I'll past the trello link
> Are your files copied over many storage drives? Or is it just with the person you made a contract with. If so I can see this being a huge problem, as if the harddrive, gets destroyed, turned off, etc etc.
Certainly not a single person hosting your data. It uses a reed solomon encoding method and pushes pieces out to multiple hosts.
> Do I have to download the entire node to have the sai UI wallet? That seems like a pain.
Yes, currently you'll need a full blockchain locally. It's around 9GB currently.
> 2. Access to purchasing SAI coin.
Yeah, it is problematic at the moment
> 3. UI is clunky
Scheduled for improvement soon :)
> 4. Marketing
They'll start that up as the platform improves to better support their target audience.
As an aside to give you fair warning, price discussion is a violation of rule 3 on this sub. If you're here for trading or investment, check our r/SiaTrader as well.
No this is a shortcoming of the platform and is supposed to addressed in time by storing it in the block chain. When you upload your files metadata Sia files are created and stored on disk (renter folder).
Here is the milestone for the feature:
If you seriously want to use this beta platform for storing production files you will need to use a third party service to sync your renter folder to. The files are very small so something like S3 would be near free.
Ok heres another interesting tought for you. The moment the Obelisks are up the Sia price , with time, is bound to get up.
That and with the development of SIA as a project.
Look here >> https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
I think it remains at about same price, maybe over a cent slightly by end of September, $0.02-0.03 by end of year and $0.05-0.10 by end of 2018.
Price estimates should not be taken with great weight though as it's impossible for anyone to predict price. Above is just a total guess and crypto volatility will be extreme. Siacoin is a long-term hold (4-6 years) and I think $1 is the all-time high price after mass adoption.
Start with the roadmap here: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
That aside, there are a few things that need to be sorted out:
- Some renting/hosting features are still buggy (hosts going offline for various reasons, renter issues when dealing with subdirectories, etc)
- The UI is not intuitive enough considering the complexity of Sia, contracts, and everything happening in the background
- There's not that much storage on the network yet when considering an enterprise
- There's no easy way to sink a bunch of USD into Sia directly unless an enterprise built their own solution
- Additional integrations (i.e. Minio recently) need to be built first
To name a few.
Well,you are lucky then.I waited about ~35 hours for the initial sync.They had that in plan,and as i can see on the Roadmap they achived it already.(to be honest there is already a huge difference from 35 to 20)
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
Or maybe i was unlucky,who knows?
The hosts are probably thinking in fiat currency (dollars or euros, not Siacoin), so they will adjust the price they're offering for storage up or down as the value of Siacoin fluctuates. Once a contract is formed, though, the host and renter are bound to the price in Siacoin.
Automatic host price adjustments are on the roadmap to be a built-in feature of Sia in the next few months.
> hyping up an announcement most people thought was going to be something like a massive partnership deal, or a file-sharing service
I will respectfully disagree on this one. I think it's unfair to blame the Sia dev team for the community's wild imaginations and rumor mongering. All the Sia team did was say they had an announcement and post a logo. If we assumed a file-sharing service was coming last week (which would have contradicted their public roadmap) or that they had a massive partnership deal, that's on us.
>Sure, you guys need funding to work on the coin. No one works for free. But think about how it looks to an individual. Unless you have absolute 100% faith that Sia will be successful, it makes no logical sense to invest thousands in something you won't even see a return on for a year.
I can understand that this rubs people the wrong way, but I personally am fine with what they're doing.
There's nothing deceptive about selling ASIC miners and laying their cards on the table. We might not like the terms, but then we don't have to buy. If nobody buys, the Sia team will need to change the terms or the price, so it feels like the kind of thing the free market will sort out and not something anyone needs to be upset or argue about.
I did a little research on this and found this review, not looking good. Seems to have been a good site at one time, but I think it has run its course and it is no longer worth your time.. here is the link to the review. I'll let you decide if my comment has merit.
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Good luck.
https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q3.pdf
In the Q3 report they announced they can now determine how much they can burn.
So the quantity is unknown at the moment as same with the moment/duration of the burn
All of Sia works off of an API. You can see the most recent API on https://sia.tech/docs
One thing that could be super helpful to developers would be a library in your favorite language that implements the API and provides users with easy tools and functions to build their storage applications.
My comment wasn't an argument or accusation. I copied those things out of the (very long) list of requirements. I'm not saying its insecure, but as far as I know there hasn't been a 3rd party audit and the only bounties I have seen are for features and bugs. As for consensus, I think the Obelisk debacle speaks for that. And roadmap, they have one (https://sia.tech/roadmap) but its up to debate as to the progress. Almost everything they said would be done this year is still in long term.
Here you can see a brief outline regarding the differences: https://pixeldrain.com/api/file/MeD3vqgo
Essentially, Sia is the backbone/underlying layer of technology. It's the network of hosts and renters, while Skynet is a CDN+ layer built on top of that.
You can draw parallels between Sia and a NAS, while Skynet is like building a public website hosted on the NAS. Not quite the same, but it's close
I've been working on this design for a long time, always tweaking little things. I'm trying to keep it clean and easy on the eyes, allowing users to easily focus on the content they want without any distractions. The home page is nearly perfect in my opinion, but the file viewer will require some more effort to get it right. It's way more complex and dynamic after all.
It's already become way better than the last version, the white glow was a terrible idea in hindsight... (the orange is just because of halloween, it will disable itself tomorrow)
If you have some feedback on the design I'd love to hear it. But I can't promise that I will agree on every point ;)
Take a look ! https://steemit.com/ it's a social network based on blockchain technology where you get paid for posting stuff . Great project in my opinion. Also for the groups I think there is a slack group with sia don't have the link though.
I think people are misunderstanding your question. You can download Sia UI (or the third party Android wallet), let it sync to 100%, and then create a wallet from an existing seed, entering your paper wallet seed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vandyke.siamobile for anyone curious. If someone is storing 4.3m SC on my app, then wowza! Wasn't expecting that kind of use :o Although I suspect it's more likely his friend showed him his coins that are on an exchange or something (although that's a lot of SC to keep on an exchange).
I'm not sure how Jaxx generally works for other coins, but it's currently not possible to have a "lite" local wallet for Sia. Sia Mobile implements all the possible options for a Sia wallet on mobile.
Nope.
Not a long explanation on this one, there are general plans to have something like this in the long term:
https://trello.com/c/CpdMTmMK/41-support-for-mobile-wallets-and-other-lite-clients
Yes, it would be if it ever made it into a release! It has been slated for Next Release since April 2017.
Sia needs more developers, it seems ridiculous that a $1.5B project has so many issues with exchange wallets and correctly forking a difficulty change. Personally, I am not optimistic that the technical problems of Sia will see any relief until the ASICs are finally released and working properly on the network, at which time the team will actually have resources to address the issues that have started to pile up.
Welcome to the community!
This is not possible today, but it's on their roadmap for the medium term.
This would be an interesting thesis and I could imagine the Sia dev team being interested in collaborating with you if you're planning to implement this. Check out the #contributors channel of the discord.
One thing to note is that a lot of people pop up and say they're going to write code, but don't actually write anything. Obviously, this is detrimental to the project. Consider starting with a small patch (e.g., fixing documentation, adding a unit test) to show the dev team you're serious.
This got caught in the spam filter for some reason, but I'm going to leave it removed as the roadmap is pretty commonly linked here and in the sidebar as well.
> > "Hello , Not scheduled. Please take a look at our public roadmap to know which projects we are currently working on: https://trello.com/b/5nQ1mdzt/ledger-roadmap Use MyEtherWallet to see and manage ERC20 tokens. Please read that guide : MyEtherWallet (click here to follow the tutorial) If this token is not supported by MyEtherWallet you can access your account on MyEtherWallet and choose "Add Custom Token" on with these information related to the token: Contract address, Token Symbol and its decimals. Best regards,
I wouldn't print a private key.
> and Sia already is going to pad those out to 40 MB
This has probably been covered elsewhere before, but are there any plans to 'fix' this to allow many small files to be efficiently uploaded? Whether through merging into 40 MB chunks or by allowing individual smaller files without padding.
A lot of usage scenarios would require this -- like a CDN serving mostly css/js/image files, or a desktop backup program that's uploading tens of thousands of small txt/dll/jpg/exe/etc files.
As a followup question, would the planned fix allow downloading files from the network without incurring a 40MB - $filesize overhead?
Edit: both of these are apparently already on the roadmap. Disregard :)
>Can you think of a safe way to unlock it automaticaly? Or is best practice to use a UPS to prevent power loss in the first place. The unit only uses 30w of power so a small UPS would be inexpensive.
They're adding auto-unlock in a future release, so I wouldn't invest too much effort into it.
My only idea is something hacky, like having a startup script run siac wallet unlock repeatedly until it successfully unlocks the wallet. You'd need to store the seed on your device in plaintext, but I think this is is fine because I can't think of a plausible scenario where an attacker has penetrated your system to the point where they have read access to your filesystem, but they can't steal your wallet by sending a siac command or replacing siad with a malicious binary.
The only realistic scenario where it's dangerous is if your device is physically stolen, but I put it at a pretty low probability that a petty thief would steal your device and figure out how to access your Siacoin before you realize it and move your funds to a different wallet using a backup of your seed.
I personally just manually unlock my Sia host node's wallet every time I have to restart my server.
Edit: small note
>that should make it resonably fast to resume hosting once the user unlocks the wallet.
You can host with a locked wallet. You just can't accept new contracts.
You can read about current host score metrics here: https://siahub.readme.io/docs/host-scorerank
Other metrics/host management should be added later/soon.
Yea, video playback is actually in the 6 months public road map they have published on their website - https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap. I think it might take a little longer than that and there wouldn't be an easy way of keeping track of watched/unwatched items. So what I was hoping for is a IP address to where your files are stored so I could try to mount it as a network drive then just use it like a NAS with Plex.
Public Roadmap states that they intend to support files as small as ~100kb within the next 6 months.
....as to why it is the way that it is today...above my pay grade.
Not yet. There's still a lot of work to get there because right now to interact with the Sia network you need to run a whole Sia server process. The server does a lot of heavy lifting that would be difficult to pull off in client side JavaScript.
I think it's a goal and I believe the "share files with users who are not on Sia" item on the public roadmap is referring to something like this.
Welcome to Sia!
There are currently no web wallets available and web/mobile wallets aren't in the Sia team's roadmap for any time within the next six months:
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
It would be pretty straightforward for a third-party to release a web wallet, so maybe someone will notice the demand and take it on.
Thanks for the reply, I think this is a pretty good response. And I can see some of the points youre making. I'm still a bit wary for a couple reasons:
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/ Amazon's cdn, while not present everywhere, is present in a lot of locations.
I'm not 100% sold that there are a bunch of network techs that start putting up enterprise-grade datacenters in a bunch of cities across the world where aws is not present to generate tens of thousands of dollars.
However, I do understand this vision better, and it makes more sense to me now than when I initially made the post.
This is the official list of all the known exchanges supporting SC: https://airtable.com/shrq4MSLNxinvnaR7/tblBYpPz8NRekRYGx
And this is the official knowledgebase page linking that list: https://support.sia.tech/get-started-with-sia/how-to-buy-siacoins
The vast majority bitcoin mines are run off of dirt cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power plants. If they did not, the mining company would go bankrupt as the industry is highly competitive.
By using the language of those specific verticals, it wouldn't be too difficult to have well-calculated campaigns to get video content creators, academic researchers, etc onboard with Sia. The steps I would approach are:
1) understand their use cases for cloud storage, the amount of storage, how often it needs to be accessed, etc. I have some background in UX research & design so I'd be happy to take on some of this myself.
2) provide visual & ELI5 guides for those verticals with respect to their current or potential workflows surrounding cloud storage
3) make word-of-mouth as easy as possible for early adopters in that vertical and most importantly, the onboarding needs to be top-notch (either from a front-end product or a backend API connection). For backend API connection, I understand that Stripe's API documentation is the gold standard (https://stripe.com/docs/api)
the pi binaries are at the bottom
Someone actually has a very comprehensive How to, for running it on a pi, it's likely burried deep in this forum, or you can do a quick Google.
Edit Skunk inks guide
They did release a statement on their website. But also keep in mind that this attack happened while they were asleep. So they needed some time to get up to speed before they could make any sort of informed announcement.
Also be very careful if you use Discord. The Sia developers will NEVER contact you about updating any kind of software. So if you receive such a message be aware that it is a scam. You should also always download the UI directly from the official https://sia.tech website. That way you can be certain you are getting the right thing.
The software is open source and has good community support so there is redundancy there in terms of the software dying due to lack of maintenance. If you visit the sia site you can learn a lot about the project and possibly calm your worries.
fyi, I am also a newbie in the block chain domain, but have been in software for some time
To help with your question:
Right now there isn’t a good use case. It is still in its infancy.
Many of the competing storage coins (Storj and Burst) are as well.
Sia is focused on providing decentralized, encrypted, and anonymous storage. This is a good use case for banking, data backups, and private data if the network grows large enough to support enterprise level workload.
Hope that provides some greater insight.
Check out their website or their YouTube to see more:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYtlUu6bUghAca0ADmlxCKw
Edit: And I’m downvoted. Why guys? Just trying to spread the Sia Message. Seems silly to hate on that.
Your only option at the moment for both sending and receiving Siacoins is using the official Sia UI wallet (https://sia.tech/apps/). Sia does not support SPV, although that will come, making it challenging for "light" wallets to support Siacoin.
These BAA agreements could very well be an issue. I handle insurance carrier appointments for an independent insurance brokerage so I've personally read and signed a few. I may be able to scrub one to create a specimen copy for analysis. Change can happen but it's slow in certain sectors like health due to regulatory red tape. P&C insurance carriers went from 5% to 100% acceptance of docusign in the past 5yrs, for example. 2FA is currently a health insurance carrier imparative.
As for a cloud based use case, check out Citrix Sharefile's medical image module. We use Citrix Files (AKA Sharefile) as out network file sharing service and there are several product tiers; financial entities may require more robust record keeping and ability for Litigation Holds placed on data. The medical image module is a slick way to easily upload and share medical images such as CT/MRI Scans. I just used it this month to get a CD-ROM of MRI images delivered via email (like a dropbox link) to a specialist 600 miles away.
I'm interested in siacoin for its promise in helping to create an uncensored, anonymous, user-driven, decentralized internet. Perhaps you could reach out to some of the other projects with similar goals (OpenBazaar, Steemit/Bitshares, Tor/I2P, etc) and see what they would like?
Speaking for myself, I'd like to be able to
- host images for Steemit (and other decentralized apps) on siacoin
- integrate image hosting for OpenBazaar using Siacoin
- use Siacoin for storage for the Beaker Browser: https://beakerbrowser.com/
Perhaps you could sponsor a Bounty Source (https://www.bountysource.com/) for one of those things? It could then be used as a model for how Sia can be used in other applications.
At 27 billion coins, I believe $0.10 is a benchmark based on actual market cap potential. But, speculative investing could push the price much higher.
Box Inc. is publicly traded with a market cap of 2.5 Billion (41 million users and 74,000 businesses) https://www.box.com/about-us
If Siacoin currently had that market cap, the coin would be worth $0.0925
Hmmm. Is this your first Slack group? Can you try signing up to slack first here? Provide your e-mail then try joining the siatalk slack channel. Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll try to assist you.
You may be and through with nextCloud integraron?
Others who have experience, please do share your input.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/introducing-cloud-storage-in-the-blockchain-with-sia-and-nextcloud/
One thing I have a question on is this: What VPN service is reputable and will allow the 3 ports to be forwarded? That's all we really need and we can just change VPN nodes and reannounce when we are getting DDOs'd. Nord doesn't allow any, Private Internet Access allows only 1 port and all of the other I'm not familiar with. Any ideas?
Thanks! Yes, renting space through the VPN is no issue.
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I have now tried split tunneling with ProtonVPN but Sia-UI will just stay on the startup screen the says the "Sia Daemon is loading modules..." for ever and never actually load into the UI.
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I think I will just set up a Raspberry Pie with an old Drobo and host storage that way.
Would'nt we first know how much money they think they need? I mean SIA is a long time project and not everything matches their schedule (we do this now, later, next 6 months, now... https://trello.com/c/7litw6xv), and we also don't know their financial situation. I mean, if I go to a banc for a credit, the'll want to know everythinkg about me and my financial situation...
So, I completely agree with a dev fee, not sure the total amount. And as I understand business, first and middle times are when more cap is needed, and when the product becomes near to be finished, dev fee should be lower
The official roadmap is here:
https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap
You can also find it by going to sia.tech their official website and going to the very bottom of the page and choosing 'trello' to get the trello roadmap
Exactly, that's how it would be possible today. This would bring us a bit back to centralization, however, this could be a great solution for file sharing within a private network (enterprise).
Just want to add that "File sharing - share files with users who are not on Sia" is in the Pipeline. I don't know how this will work but this would surely take out the central server to request the files from. However, it is on long term so don't expect it too soon.
Files uploaded to the network, after achieving the redundancy you require, no longer need to be kept on disk.
You do need to keep a backup of your siad directory (which is substantially smaller than whatever you are backing up.)
Seed based file recovery is currently slated for the next 18 months: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
Personally im looking forward for whats on this roadmap : https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap
Just bear with the devs, Sia is by far the most promising project on this field atm.
Funny enough i posted a youtube vid on my linkedin yesterday and got alot of good feedback from other professionals in the field and a pm from some IBM guy/bot asking me to take a look at their project.
DL/UP speed depend on hosts selected for your contracts and can be very high.
But if hosts not very fast you get slow speed, sia cant increase it by self.
Metrics for ping/speed will be added later(https://trello.com/c/8aUvbAwv/60-renter-to-begin-pruning-replacing-low-quality-hosts-resulting-in-more-reliable-files-and-in-faster-speeds)
Same as using as backend storage. Currently is not supperted at all.
Only possibility is use SiaDrive(https://bitbucket.org/siaextensions/siadrive/)
Which is very beta too.