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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 🙌🏼
I know Sia doesn't get a lot of love in this sub, but it might be worth taking another look. They recently released version 1.4.0 which has some pretty massive improvements and version 1.4.1 will have full recovery of files with just your password (called seed-based file recovery). Prices can get as low as 25 cents/TB/month and performance has dramatically improved in recent months.
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Sia doesn't fit everyone's use case, but if you're primarily motivated by price it might be an interesting option for you.
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Disclaimer: I don't work for Sia, but I am a community contributor to the project and general Sia evangelist (because it's amazing tech).
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
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.
A like that was shared with me:
https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q1.pdf
Hiring a marketing team is on Q2 agenda. I find marketing to be a huge issue and this takes all doubt away for me.
Please share the link as much as possible
ACTIVE MIRROR FOR FULL INTERVIEW (as of 9pm EST 1/27)
PERMA LINK (using https://sia.tech Skynet)
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:
If you are worried about your security and privacy of who owns and can read your files on another entity's server (with most top search results yielding less-than-reputuable megacorps), self-hosting might be good option for you and clients. Syncthing and Sia are cross-platform, open-source options recommended from the PRISM Break project for file sharing.
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.
Without looking at the website, it sounds like this company is using Sia Coin as their primary storage technology. I looked into it years ago when I was mining the coin but decided that it was a poor technology as there's little redundancy and you're likely beholden to some guy's upload speeds in who the hell knows nowhere. I recall some sysadmin claiming to have moved all of his company's backups to the Sia network. I wondered how long he kept his job for.
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!
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
It currently costs $3 per megabyte to put transactions in the BCH blockchain. BCH transactions have relatively low payload capacity, so once overhead is taken into account, it costs about $10 per megabyte of payload.
In comparison, on Siacoin for $2 you can store 1 gigabyte of data at current rates for 125 years. On Amazon S3, that would cost about $23.
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
They're focusing more on marketing now. Hiring a marketing VP was explicitly mentioned in this year's Q1 report on the last page.
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.
La blockchain c'est lent. C'est vraiment l'inverse de ce que tu veux pour du partage de fichier. Par contre le stockage de fichier et l'hebergement décentralisé sur la blockchain, ça existe, c'est pas cher, et c'est de la balle : check Sia si ça t'interesse
Maybe try installing NextcloudPi before buying the new raspberry. It comes configured to deliver the best nextcloud performance on the raspberry.
To protect your data against natural disasters you could use some sort of cloud storage, Microsoft Azure or Amazon S3. You could also have a look at sia, it is end-to-end encrypted so only you can see your files.
Take into account that raspberry's ports (USBs and Ethernet) share all the bandwidth of a single USB 2.0 if you want to connect multiple drives. If they are not going to be used at the same time it should probably be fine. The microSD has full bandwidth thought. I no longer own a raspberry so I can not test speeds, but it should suffice since probably your internet connection will be the bottleneck .
I am afraid do not know of any way to selectively backup files.
Until we get widespread stable decentralized storage solutions, I definitely agree. They hold the keys.
Check out https://sia.tech/ if you're interested. (This is not a plug, I have no affiliation with them). Their system essentially splits and encrypts any file you upload to them, and distributes it to a Node.
Nobody holds the keys except you.
Obviously it's quite a bit more complicated than that, but they hosting contracts using blockchain technology to accomplish this. Cryptocurrencies have a lot of really exciting technology in the works, but most people just think Bitcoin = Money. But there are a few that are tackling very specific technological problems including cloud storage.
https://steemit.com/ is essentially Reddit without advertisements that works on blockchain. An "Upvote" is essentially a monetary tip for posting or creating that content.
I feel people are starting to see the potential in blockchain tech, and that's why we're seeing Bitcoin worth more than $7200 US and it doubling it's market capital in the last year to over $122,211,224,717.
"The aggregate value of all cryptocurrencies hit a record high of around $184 billion on Wednesday, according to industry website Coinmarketcap, making their reported market value worth around the same as that of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley combined" - nypost.com/2017/11/01/cryptocurrencies-now-worth-more-than-goldman-and-morgan-stanley-combined/
Not true, like I said there are blockchains specialized to do this that are actually up and running. This isn't some theoretical discussion, what I'm saying is demonstrably proven. Examples are Filecoin and Sia. You can read the technical whitepapers here:
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.
Says it is powered By Skynet (https://siasky.net/) which on the landing page offers a similar service.
Reading on it seems it is linked to Sia coin (https://sia.tech/) which uses crypto to implement a distributed remote storage service
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.
I don't think you can lose your coins by not updating it's just that your SIA UI is probably showing the wrong blockchain because you didn't update in time.
You need to completely erase your SIA-UI before installing the new version or else it will probably still pick up the old blockchain.
What you can do which will be a lot quicker is to go to https://siacentral.com/ and use the lite wallet to check your balance with your seed. If your balance shows up it should be fine. Your 1.5.4 is probably still using the old blockchain because you didn't update it in time.
There is also a link to this wallet on the SIA website when you go to sia.tech and click on get started you'll see the different kinds of apps and wallet if you scroll down.
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
I've yet to try it myself, but I was once thinking of using a Nextcloud instance (any? as long as it supports apps) and adding https://sia.tech/ as an external storage. Supposedly it's slow, but you're mostly guaranteed that nobody will be able to see your files. (That's cause you need your own key for storage)
Usar Google drive, Dropbox, Onedrive, Mega, coisas do tipo é tudo que meio mesma coisa. Se quiser usar esses com privacidade, use junto Cryptomator (acho que Veracrypt com Dropbox em particular também rola e legal, porque Dropbox faz sincronismo por diferença em bytes).
O crash em nuvem que citei é devido a alguma indisponibilidade, seja por que motivo for. Tipicamente cenários meio catastróficos, mas não impossiveis. Por exemplo queda de parte da Internet mundial por guerra, protecionismo, politica, segurança, pau em servidores, instabilidade/ruptura por problemas climáticos, desastres naturais, até espaciais (tempestade solar, meteoro, etc). Essas grandes nuvens tem alguma redundância, mas estão tipicamente em poucos países, sob o controle de poucos governos, majoritariamente no hemisfério norte (e nós no sul!). https://sia.tech por exemplo a coisa fica totalmente dispersa geograficamente, sem possibilidade de controle / interferência de Estados, com boa redundância e privacidade por construção.
Check out Sia:
"Sia, in a nutshell, is the concept for a new way to store data “in the cloud”. It takes advantage of users all over the world with spare hard drive space who wish to rent it out in order to create a huge, decentralized platform for distributed cloud storage. Data is broken into pieces, encrypted, and distributed to many hosts in order to maintain security and redundancy.
Sia aims to compete with (or totally replace) conventional cloud storage platforms like Amazon S3."
Sia turned me off the moment I saw the word "blockchain" to describe how it stores files. No thank you.
Internxt is charging for file hosting on servers they don't maintain?
I use Veracrypt for encrypted containers and local hard drives, Boxcryptor for anything on the cloud - I know Cryptomator is (somewhat) open source and (mostly) free but it's still (very) buggy. Maybe I should convert my Dropbox storage to a single Veracrypt container file as Dropbox supports partial updates.
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.
Have you heard of Sia? They're working on open-source, truly decentralized, secure and cheap cloud storage. It's still very early in development and not quite usable (it's still kind of a pain and some bugs), but they got a really good dev team behind it! They are very ambitious and aim to become the internet's backend, I'm excited to see how that turns out! Currently costs about 2$ ber TB/month. Your data is also redundant (about 3x) so you will have no problem with uptime since it's stored on multiple hosts in the network and no single host has all your data (which is also encrypted)
If you read this: https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q4.pdf it appears they are doing work. I don't know how they can have so many employees though with nothing to show for it. No releases or bug fixes since October. And they seem fixated on finances despite splitting into a foundation a year ago.
I have been following sia for a long time, they have always tripped from one crisis to another. The block reward going to the foundation will ensure that any incompetence won't stop them from getting paid.
The only budget that was mentioned was in our Q3 report (https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q3.pdf) and that was our projected spending of 1.77 million USD in 2022.
As Luke has said in the post, we should have been (and plan to be) more open about the 2023-2026 budget and how we establish those numbers.
There may be some relevant info in the 2021-Q3 report. Then, in the 2021-Q1 report, you can read about them receiving a 1.57GS subsidy.
I really like this idea. And people who don't like it don't have to enable it right?
Sia Storage is also an interesting option. I've ran a node for a while a few years ago. (https://sia.tech/)
What would the next steps be? First decide on which storage tech to use?
Something even more obvious to solve would be the dominance that services like AWS or Cloudflare have, and the fact that when they go down they bring half internet with them. Look at what sia.tech is doing
As it says in the API docs, that route it authenticated https://sia.tech/docs/#host-storage-folders-add-post. You need to add the auth header using the API password from ~/.sia/apipassword curl -A “Sia-Agent” -u “”:”$(cat ~/.sia/apipassword)” http://localhost:9980/host/storage/folders/add --data “”
Coin Market Cap shows a total supply and circulating supply of 49.43 billion Siacoin. The maximum supply is blank. Here is some information about the total supply from sia.tech: https://support.sia.tech/get-started-with-sia/siacoin-total-supply.
People (though for some reason not many here) think they are separate because they are: https://sia.tech/siafoundation
Sia Foundation develops and maintains the codebase, and is a non-profit corporation. Skynet is a for-profit company that develops software that utilizes Sia.
Sia, as other blockchain software, is a P2P client that connects to other peers around the globe to receive and broadcast new transactions and blocks. In the case of Sia, P2P protocols are used also to communicate with hosts, the storage providers of the network. These activities happen through ports 9981 and 9982 of your computer. My guess is that your antivirus/firewall is confusing this activity with email activity (what would mean that your AV is terribly bad, as email protocols use different ports). In any case it is worth double-checking where did you downloaded your Sia client from, as there are out there scam software and websites looking exactly the same as the official one. The sole place you should download the Sia software is from https://sia.tech/get-started
I just downloaded Sia-Ui
https://sia.tech/get-started
Add wallet, copy seed phrase provided. Then add nodes to
the terminal. Icon is at top of the app.
https://siastats.info/nodes
I actually used the list on this thread. The last one doesn't
work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/p643dw/cannot\_get\_the\_wallet\_to\_sync/
And it's syncing. After about an hour I'm on block 70,000 of the
current 327,642 and rising with a very slow internet connection.
Way simpler than I was expecting as people say they have problems. Possibly due to the nodes. FYI You can also copy paste the seed phrase.
When it finishes syncing I'm going to play with it some more.
>If you have your 28/29 word wallet recovery seed you can recover your wallet funds on either the official desktop wallet:
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>https://wallet.siacentral.com
I've never run into the built-in terminal not working. You can try and restart Sia-UI or use siac directly from command prompt/bash.
Windows:
1. Open command prompt
2. Type cd %LOCALAPPDATA%/Programs/Sia-UI/resources/bin and press enter
3. Type siac gateway connect followed by the node's IP address and port, then press enter
macOS:
1. Open Terminal
2. Type cd /Applications/Sia-UI.app/Contents/Resources/bin and press enter
3. Type siac gateway connect followed by the node's IP address and port, then press enter
Linux:
1. Download Sia Daemon for Linux from https://sia.tech/get-started
2. Unzip the file
3. Open terminal and cd to the unzipped location
4. Type siac gateway connect followed by the node's IP address and port, then press enter
I'm going to post more about sia.tech in a separate thread. If you have a NAS and you are not using the entire available storage potential, you can put it to work on a decentralized global network and potentially make enough cash to pay for your NAS.
The Android app was built and maintained by a third party developer, it hasn't been updated in around 3 years. The current block height is 319005.
If you have your 28/29 word wallet recovery seed you can recover your wallet funds on either the official desktop wallet: https://sia.tech/get-started or a third party lite wallet from Sia Central: https://wallet.siacentral.com
SIAcoin is a token that will be used as currency on a blockchain based internet. It’s amazing technology and is almost ready for the average person. Developers are currently making improvements and it’s happening quickly. SIAcoin
A decentralized storage system based on blockchain technology. All files are encrypted and spread across all the hosts, wich rent their storage capacity to the system for definite contracts.
You can only access the files with your keys and its impossible to any organization or individual to access or destroy them since they are spread through the world across the blockchain and can be retrieved if one or several hosts go offline.
There's another similar interesting project in the works: the IPFS, which is also decentralized, but its based on only volunteer contribution of capacity (like torrents), the files are less secure than with SIA, and if the hosts are taken down the files might be lost forever. But this one is free. :)
IFPS is being used for a blockchain startup called Filecoin, which introduces a monetary incentive system to the peolple hosting in IFPS, however the files aren't in the chain and the data might still get lost.
Both tecnologies are being actively developed and they probably will integrate into one another in the future for different solutions on the way to a fully decentralized internet :D
Storage is cheap. In fact. Decentralized storage is even cheaper:
Finance isn’t the only use case for blockchain technology. There are decentralized video services already, it’s just gonna take the right one at the right time to get things going.
Ledger only supports Sia using a beta/developer mode which, while available to everyone, is inconvenient.
The only official wallet that exists is Sia-UI available on the sia.tech website, however a community member has made an (unofficial) wallet available at https://wallet.siacentral.com/.
These are the only two wallets I would recommend using, and while I do personally trust the siacentral one, I must emphasize the website and code are not maintained nor verified by the Sia team in any capacity. Just like any exchange or webwallet, exercise caution and use at your own risk.
I forgot how I got mine years ago honestly, but their website is sia.tech.
Im personally trading on bittrex building a structure, Im sure there on other exchanges though. i think yesterday they got on crypto.com
Great question, let's keep it civil and constructive!
Small files is certainly something as mentioned by u/foobarwho.
Legal ramifications of a Sia host holding illegal content has always been something that's worried me. The Sia team has had their lawyers look at this issue and believe as long as the host cooporates with authorities there wouldn't be a problem, but that means trusting law enforcement to understand the Sia tech. And there aren't great ways to delete files as a host either, you can delete sectors via merkleroot but it can be difficult to know which sectors belong to which files, and trying to explain all this to law enforcement and a judge just sounds... troublesome.
Executive leadership, I've met the core Sia team several times, they even treated me to a fancy dinner once. But the reality is they just don't have all the skills or experience needed to build a modern tech company... yet. And I know many in the community have been pretty harsh critics around this point as well. In my armchair critic opinion, Obelisk is a good example of this. The Sia team spent countless hours, money, and blood, sweat, and tears building Obelisk. It was a major distraction from their core business, ended up costing them a huge amount of money and threatened lawsuits, and was eventually shut down after making many in the Sia community very angry. That was an extremely poor business decision in my opinion, and was very disappointing for me to watch it all play out. On the other hand, the Sia founders are absolutely outstanding engineers, great guys, and it's incredible what they have built with the skills they have. I hope they bring in a proper CEO or equivalent soon so the founders can focus on what they do best, engineering and evangelism.
Also check out Sia Foundation’s quarterly report. They are working on porting their app to the Ledger Nano X over the next three months. They’re also working to secure an official non dev mode release in the Ledger App Store.
>olutely valid concern, would you like to elaborate on why you disagree?
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Hey sorry for the late reply. I got my figures from the sia.tech landing page.
About the bugs, I used the UI version for Mac OS and some of the in-app pages just froze I couldn't click or do anything with the app. I didn't really dig further and stopped using the UI. But I'd say the bugs aren't really my biggest concern for now.
Thank you so much for your feedback on those issues, it's nice to have a proper talk :)
Its up to you that you think its a shit bro but for your information i have something for you just look into sia first quarterly report :- https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q1.pdf
then let me know why i have strong believe in this coin
Here is the quarterly report published recently:
https://sia.tech/transparency/2021-q1.pdf
It says they've submitted to Coinbase's AssetHub and are awaiting their review (report page 5, PDF page 7).
Ada submitted in 2017. So we could be waiting a while or next week. Either way we'll be ready.
Just go to the website (https://sia.tech/get-started) and download the gui for it. Or there's a bunch of 3rd party options as well. It is not cheaper than google drive on a per GB basis, but its fine for a small amount of important files. https://siastats.info/storage_pricing
Is your storage on your computer or in the form of external hard drives? If it is on your computer and you're running windows you could use the SiaUI to set up hosting. If you have a bunch of external drives and a Raspberry PI 4 laying around you could use the guide I wrote to set it up. The guide should also work for any Ubuntu install as well if you're running a Linux os.
Is your storage on your computer or in the form of external hard drives? If it is on your computer and you're running windows you could use the SiaUI to set up hosting.
https://sia.tech/get-started here you can find the official Sia web site with the software for the wallet but also https://blog.sia.tech/sia-central-incredible-3rd-party-tools-73a02b853bbe?gi=354837733570 offers a sia third party wallet I used, it only works with a browser an one device. (Your personal computer on your favorite browser will have the wallet, you can’t access it with another device)
Signal can leverage with Sia Foundation to provide ‘Storage’ with privacy !!! https://sia.tech/
Traditional cloud storage today works something like this - Once you have uploaded your data to the cloud - all that data sits with a single company such as DropBox or Apple or Google - they therefore have access to all of your data, and therefore all of the control of your data.
And with privacy being such a necessity nowadays (due to the fact that corporations cannot be trusted due to issues such as database leaks and privacy policy changes)
Sia allows a user to store their data in the cloud without losing control.
Once a file is uploaded to Sia, it is encrypted, and then uploaded to a large number of hosts, none of whom are able to manipulate any of your data or violate your privacy or prevent you from retrieving the original file that you uploaded. This is achieved through smart contracts that are used to ensure that the hosts do not get paid unless they store your data.
Added this to the existing feature request.. https://community.signalusers.org/t/cloud-backup-option-to-google-drive-icloud-mega-etc/2798/69
The best place is here https://sia.tech/get-started and download the UI if you're not tech savvy.
Download it, run and create your wallet seed, write them down and never EVER lose them or you'll never recover your funds. There are plenty of guides online on how to store your wallet keys/seeds so I wont get into that.
Wait for your client to sync, it may take a while if you have slow internet or if your data drive has slow write speeds.
Once synced you can simply transfer off the exchange into your wallet.
Its all quite intuitive, however if you get stuck Have a read
Siacoin is the future of decentralised storage :D It has a working product already but it has had very low marketing. You should read sia.tech.
It could be really great. But just don't expect a pump and dump style of pricing.
You are using a very old Sia version that probably is synced to the wrong side of a hardfork that happened on 2018. You will need to download the latest version of the software from https://sia.tech and perform a clean install following this: https://support.sia.tech/your-sia-wallet/sia-ui-faqs/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-in-sia-ui
You are in a very old version, that is probably not even synced to the real Sia blockchain. Download the latest Sia version from the Sia website (https://sia.tech) and perform a clean install to ensure you are in the right blockchain: https://support.sia.tech/your-sia-wallet/sia-ui-faqs/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-in-sia-ui
Irs based on Sia (https://sia.tech/) in the backend but Filebase let's you pay in regular money.
The speeds were not bad in my experience. Slightly worse than B2 but not by a lot honestly.
EDIT: what similar service were you using?
>The file is called Sia-UI-v1.5.3.AppImage. If i open properties it has:Program (application/vnd.appimage).
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>I downloaded it by downloaind the from https://sia.tech/get-started (its a decentralised clouding platform.
The file is called Sia-UI-v1.5.3.AppImage. If i open properties it has:Program (application/vnd.appimage).
I downloaded it by downloaind the from https://sia.tech/get-started (its a decentralised clouding platform.
Thank you
Hi! There are few rivals. For example Sia or Internxt Drive. I used to use Storj but... finally I gave up because I didn't understand how it really works and was expensive for me. I had your same doubt in January and I found Internxt Drive. It's super-easy to use, cheap and there are some reviews on Medium that could help you.
Https://sia.tech is the official website. What do you mean by "moderator" ? Moderator from poloniex ? You might need to wait a few minutes after your first times unlocking the wallet even if it's fully synced
Depending on how old the UI you are using you might need to re-sync the blockchain.
The main version that would potentially cause issues is if you are on v1.3.6 or earlier. v1.3.7 was a hardfork and so we definitely recommend upgrading to the latest version. If you are currently on a v1.3.6 or older version then you probably need to re-sync the blockchain.
The Sia-UI is the only UI the Core team supports. We haven't done much in terms of new features but it should be bug free. If there are any issues in the current version definitely submit a bug report so that we can resolve it.
Additionally we list third party applications on our website https://sia.tech/get-started
Depending on what version you have installed, checking for an update may be broken.
I'd recommend getting the latest version from sia.tech, let it sync the blockchain and then initialize the wallet from seed.
- Storj has a live S3-compatible platform at half the price of AWS and the former CEO of Docker at the helm
- Filecoin has the full backing of the IPFS community and a massive ICO to back it up
- Videocoin has the former founder of CNET and co-founder of Salesforce at the helm and they just went live. They've also got an interesting rewards program paying in token OR fiat.
Meanwhile, the one business guy that was left in Sia quietly exited and is still listed as COO on their website. IMO, they desparately need to put someone with REAL business experience in that vacancy that can develop an actual strategy for Sia to gain adoption in this increasingly crowded space.
It's an easy downvote just by the title but I get what you mean. I would definitely support projects that use a similar model, for like you said Wikipedia or something curated, etc. I just feel like these kinds of things often get porn (or CP/Pedo-like stuff) or weird shit thrown in and I absolutely don't want to help propagate awful stuff or be at risk. I wanted to be part of stuff like Sia (https://sia.tech/; distributed storage) but I just know it's going to be used messed up people sharing stuff I don't want to be a part of and I wouldn't really know. Mainstream places to upload & share, etc, would get stuff taken down quicker or be easier to track / implicate; so the worst people are going to look for alternatives I feel. But I could be wrong.
If you just want to use Sia storage for your personal use without sharing and including strong default encryption, then you just need to download the Sia software: https://sia.tech
There are many fancy integrations, for example with Duplicati (https://blog.sia.tech/introducing-full-computer-backup-with-sia-through-the-new-duplicati-integration-62dd17cbcfb7) if what you need are automatic and incremental backups of your drives/folders.
And if you need to share some of the files with other people, you can use your own Sia software to upload a file to Skynet and then share the link: everybody will be able to download the file from any public Skynet portal.
E tudo isso (Google, Amazon, MS) podem ficar rapidamente pra trás. Ou crescerem absurdo, mas com uma mudança no negócio, uso de nova abordagem:
Para armazenamento - e streaming, meios mais dinâmicos, em seguida - algo disruptivo está para acontecer (já está acontecendo): armazenamento compartilhado, de sobras/potenciais não utilizados de meios físicos de qualquer um, via blockchain. E ainda turbinado por 5G e fibra de alta velocidade.
Isso joga a competição lá em cima, os preços lá embaixo, além de adicionar de brinde maior segurança (redundância, etc) e privacidade aos dados.
Tem projetos nascendo pra atender o varejo, eu, você, empresas, mas também no atacado, eles serem a base, a infra de grandes empresas fornecedoras de armazenamento.
Por exemplo veja esses projetos, mas há outros:
Para armazenamento - e streaming, meios mais dinâmicos, em seguida - algo disruptivo está para acontecer (já está acontecendo): armazenamento compartilhado, de sobras/potenciais não utilizados de meios físicos de qualquer um, via blockchain. E ainda turbinado por 5G e fibra de alta velocidade.
Isso joga a competição lá em cima, os preços lá embaixo, além de adicionar de brinde maior segurança (redundância, etc) e privacidade aos dados.
Tem projetos nascendo pra atender o varejo, eu você, empresas, mas também no atacado, eles serem a base, a infra de grandes empresas fornecedoras de armazenamento.
Por exemplo veja esses projetos, mas há outros:
Isso pode ser o enterro de uma Locaweb (em armazenamento) ou sua salvação se forem um dos primeiros a adotarem e a coisa funcionar bem.
I wrote my own program communicating with Sia through the api. (https://sia.tech/docs/) There is a command in there to get the file status. (Not sure how it is exactly called). In there is upload progress :)
The company's announcement is here: https://sia.tech/settlement2019
tl;dr - * In 2014, the Sia team did a crowd sale of $120,000 for a token which was converted into Siafunds when the network launched in 2015. * They're paying $225,000 as part of the settlement * The SEC examined Siacoin and did not take any action which basically means they don't think Siacoin is a security
It's not a super popular choice in this sub but you should check out Sia. Sia is a decentralized, encrypted cloud storage solution. It costs between $1-2 /TB/month and your data is encrypted before being uploaded. The biggest disadvantage of Sia today is it doesn't perform very well with small files, but if you can zip your photos into big folders it should be extremely efficient and economical.
Official site: https://sia.tech
I think the difficulty with torrents is that it is difficult to update and append new files without starting a new swarm from zero.
We need to move to the blockchain in the long term. Take a look at Sia Coin.
Sia requires no signups, no servers, no trusted third parties.
Sia encrypts and distributes your files across a decentralized network. You anonymously control your private encryption keys and you own your data. No outside company or third party can access or control your files, and they are working on filesharing features.
>It's an extremely insecure implementation of Sia so hopefully the blocknet guys make that blatantly obvious. I will not be using this service and I believe the current implementation actually goes against the Sia ethos in several ways.
Isn't the same true of all Sia integrations at this point? (e.g., Goobox, Filebase) I think every third-party integrator on Sia's site is currently designed to allow the provider to access your files.
Is it possible to have multiple storage services with Nextcloud at once? Now you've just made it more appealing to me, hahah.
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Like I said, I was also considering using Sia, which boasts about $2 per TB, at least for bigger stuff, anyways.
What solution do you happen to use for Photos, if you don't mind me asking?
This is pretty radical but you could probably leverage something like sia for the back end if this gets big.
Especially if you're mostly storing it long term and not doing constant retrieves, you can probably store a decent % of removed YouTube videos on a shoestring budget with how crypto has tanked.
According to this it's down to 0.3 USD/TB per month.
On Sia your files won't disappear as long as you pay for them to be stored. For the same price as storing 1 MB on BCH, you can store 1 GB on Siacoin for 125 years (assuming storage never gets cheaper on Sia).
> only way your files disappear is if the whole project dies
Another way for files to disappear from BCH is for everybody to start pruning off OP_RETURNs or old blocks and refuse to serve them to peers. UTXO commitments are fairly high on BCH's priority list, so this is likely to happen.
At bottom of this page is list of investors: https://sia.tech/about
Hard to say how much, but what's known is that Sia development is fully funded and the team doubled last year.
> Ever heard of Sia?
> Also, Sia is not an acronym, but a name
Can you make up your mind? Do I know about SIA or not? For me it's an acronim, starts with Shit, Idiots and continue with how you like. This can't work, conceptually. No matter what price structure you have you either make it not interesting for those who want to pay or for those who want to be paid. This is not working like traditional p2p (think torrents), that's completely different. Most people don't use their network all the time and can share some of it (and many have quite a bit of capacity available). Just 50Mbps (never mind 100, gigabit, etc) means over 16TB per month. You can use hardware from 10 years ago (even a pathetic laptop) and a not so quick connection and push many TBs to p2p. With storage it doesn't work like that, you need significant hardware, you need not to drop the ball and lose the data every week and so on.
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The only way you can do something with this is through speculations, trick some investors to buy some imaginary coin because it will be worth more next month. It's not that some people can offer nice storage services for good prices, there's a very crowded market for that. Even more choice and solutions are always welcome but you can't expect miracles (on the contrary giving the overhead built into the design).
We took that one down recently when we updated sia.tech to include the new API docs. It was very general, and - as u/Starbuckz8 linked - the Feature Roadmap is a better picture of what's going on.
Thanks for the heads up though! We always appreciate a notice if something seems off.
Yes, you download entire blockchain (the file is called consensus.db and currently takes over 10 GB I think). This file exists on each full node (computer running Sia software) and new transactions are broadcasted to entire network where each node individually verifies them and adds to own copy. The fact that every network participant has the complete transaction history and can say if any transaction is valid or not is what guarantees that we can trust own node and all transactions are final, immutable.
If the blockchain was somewhere on web, it would be centralized. And if the web was shut down, it would be problem. But Sia is fully decentralized and even if one or two continents had complete blackout or the development stopped for any reason and sia.tech website went down, Sia would be still fully functional, absolutely unaffected and your data safe.
If you wouldn't want to use SiaUI you can just use the Sia Daemon directly (you can get it here as well). It is the core software that the SiaUI utilizes and gives you a command line interface to interact with the software.
You can use both Sia Daemon and SiaUI just as a wallet, even if you're not renting or hosting storage.
Right here. To answer your other points, you lose a lot of reputation points in your first 6 weeks of being online as there is a penalty for new hosters. Then, said company would have to control a large majority of the hosts at their reputation level in order to hopefully secure >66% of the contracts for an end user, so 21+/30. That is a massive ratio and gets a lot harder as the network continues to grow due to the nature of host selection from the client perspective.
Now, this isn't to say what you're suggesting can't happen. It is a problem with any sort of decentralized system. Whether it's a 51% attack or poisoning of something like DHT, any relatively trustless/completely trustless application can be compromised with enough effort and funds.