Just sent you 200 S. You can get more through this faucet if you're running the Sia wallet on your computer:
siapulse.com/en_US/page/faucet

Tell your friends. Tell your Twitter/Facebook/Google/etc followers. Make a buzz.

Above all: If you like/believe in the future of Sia, then use Sia!! There is still much to be desired from the Sia wallet. But, by using Sia actively you signal to hosts, developers and everyone else monitoring the network (http://explore.sia.tech) that there is activity.

Critically, as you gain experience you're in a position to help new users. Dropbox experienced exponential growth in its early days, much by utilizing social network (referrals). There's a new Sia users each day, but some leave due to simply issues with the wallet, firewall configuration etc. It is important we help these users, as each one of these early adopters could translate into hundreds, or even thousands, of users a few years from now.

Lets emphasize everyone is welcome here. Vulgar language is not however. I think any topic is open for discussion, as long as its related to Sia. If its about the price and trading of Siacoin/fund, then there's a trading thread exactly for that.

What I can say is that the future of Monero is very bright. It seems many do not realize what we have here. It is nothing but amazing. It is freedom incarnate.

The US is increasing its ability to detect its citizens' funds abroad through FACTA. European countries, justified by a few crooks 'hiding' money in Swiss 'banks', are similarly stepping up their abuse of power in their quest to seize your property through excessive taxation which is slowly burying the continent in a state-sponsored plot to replace its indigenous population with a 2nd wave of monotheists, this one just as violent and dangerous as the previous one.

Terrible days are ahead, but Monero I think will stand out as one of the crucial tools of financial freedom. Forget about next week. Look 20 years ahead. Where would you rather have your money? In your state endorsed bank, or a cryptographically secured and anonymous network?

Just a word on MEGA. Kim Dotcom lost his extradition case. Both him and very likely his closest collaborators may find themselves soon on a plane to the US. Also, he's basically broke. I've moved all my stuff of MEGA as I'm waiting for the house of cards to fall very soon. All the better for Sia of course. I think a lot of MEGA folks will start looking for alternative safe storage.

Do you have any experience with altcoins? In particular Monero (XMR)? Or, willingness to learn?

The current block is 29176. You're not that far off. Did it sync further?

If not, and you in fact got stuck you may have to restart the deamon. I would restart siad from the command line:


then start the UI again. It should continue synchronizing the blockchain from where it left it.

Agreed. The developers have recently stated they may introduce a public key of sorts to identify hosts on the network, instead of using IP addresses or hostnames. Sooner the better.

Don't host if your IP is changing daily; clients that upload to your host cannot retrieve files if your IP changes and then you will not be paid. Set up dynamic DNS, or get a fixed IP.

You could try announcing from the command line:


where [hostname] is your IP or hostname and [port] is the port Sia should listen on (this port may have to be forwarded to your PC).
 

Redundancy is built into Sia (via Reed Solomon erasure coding) meaning a large proportion of hosts can go offline without file loss. If a file is 'damaged' (i.e. redundancy is reduced but file is still retrievable) then the network will attempt to repair the file behind the scenes. Its pretty cool. There are alternatives to Sia, but I think the Sia developers are doing things right. They very much share the Monero developers mantra of "under-promise" and "over-deliver".

That being said, the Sia network is still in its infancy and the current deamon and client software is in beta, but you should definitely try it out and hang out in the forum at http://forum.sia.tech for updates (there are also a couple of threads here on Bitcointalk).

I'm a user of Monero and Sia (blockchain-based, decentralized, encrypted cloud storage; currently in beta; see http://sia.tech)

The Siacoin, which is used to pay for storage on the Sia network, is currently traded on Poloniex. Trading is represented only by the BTC:SC currency pair. The current price of a Siacoin is 3-4 satoshis which means the spread is about 25%. The reason for the low price is a very large number of Siacoins in existence (there's a logic to it...) and low demand at present time. With such poor liquidity, there is an entry barrier for new users.

I've asked Poloniex to add the XMR:SC currency pair. This would improve liquidity and lower the barrier to trade Siacoins. FURTHERMORE, which is why I'm posting this here, it would mean XMR holders could directly buy (repeat) decentralized, encrypted storage on the Sia network.

If you agree to this proposition, please let Poloniex know! I doubt they will listen to a single request of this kind, but perhaps with a few more votes they will see the logic in providing XMR:SC trading.

I have asked Poloniex to add the XMR:SC currency pair. If they went ahead with that, liquidity would improve. If anyone feels the same, please send Poloniex a feature request to add XMR:SC.

XMR is also by the way a very cool cryptocurrency. Being able to trade XMR directly for Sia encrypted cloud storage would be great!

Duh? Are you talking about Siacoin? What recovery? Its pretty close to rock bottom today. Not that that's a bad thing, from an investor perspective

Officially, beta.

This is the better of your ideas: Sell PCs bundled with pre-installed Sia and a wallet loaded with X coins for backing up files (or maybe have them come to you to claim their coins so you don't waste coins on your most clueless customers...)

Is there a crypty friendly dynamic DNS client out there, with cross-platform support (at the very least Windows, Linux and Mac).

By crypty friendly I mean that the provider accepts bitcoin or altcoins as payment.

Poloniex could also allow trading XMR:SC, which would eliminate the price differential issue. I've asked Polo about it, without reply. Maybe if we go at them all at once they'll wake up to the possibility this would be healthy for SC trading.

Enlighten us!   

Noen som har noen formening om hvor lang tid dette kan ta å få svar på?

Have you tried the Sia client? If you download it and run it, you'll find it already does pretty much what you want it to.

There will be 3rd party services coming soon, that will build on the Sia network and bring some features that are not planned for the Sia main project.