Check this post for solving those issues: https://blog.sia.tech/troubleshooting-the-recent-hardfork-ca77e0b17f0f

BTW, coins are never lost because of a wallet issue. This is a blockchain: coins do not live in wallets, but in the blockchain, and as long as you keep the recovery seed, you'll have access to your funds

In the last hardfork of last week a change in the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm was introduced to correct the difficulty every block instead of every 3-4 days. However there is a bug that is targeting to 30 minutes blocks instead of the usual 10 minutes, what is making the difficulty to be 3x what it should be.

In the upcoming 1.3.1 version (currently in beta-testing, general release next week) a new hardfork will be introduced at block 139000 (in about 6 weeks) to correct this bug in the DAA and return the difficulty and the block time to normal values.

No just try each node once. Keep trying more nodes. The website has a database of 30 different nodes and will show you 5 random each time, so just keep adding more nodes and refresh the page if you tested 5 already

Hey @pinhead77, check this tool to recover connectivity: https://www.siastats.info/nodes.html Some of the commands may fail if those nodes do not accept more connections, but keep trying adding more nodes until you connect successfully to 2 or 3. If you refresh the page or click on the button, more peers will be shown. So far everybody with this issue has recovered the connectivity with this fix

Fair enough.

These are some posts from the official Discord server of Sia. @Taek is the CEO of Nebulous (company developing Sia). In the first post he announces for all the beta-testers the new RC2 version of the upcoming software 1.3.1 of the client (it will be released in a few days officially) and some of its features, including the fork at block 139000. In the second and third posts I ask about the ETA of that block and he answers that in about 6 weeks.

BTW, I am a moderator of the Discord server of Sia and the author of the website siastats.info , so I am in the loop of everything happening in Sia.


https://i.imgur.com/gppzDV4.jpg

Besides, if there was to be a hardfork with an airdrop, don't you think there would have been more general announcements from the developing team like in the last hardfork of last week?

Best,

This is fake news.

There will be hardfork of Sia in approximately 6 weeks (at block 139000) to correct a bug in the latest Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm. But it will not be an "airdrop" as it will not be a contentious hard fork: all the users, exchanges and miners will adopt the new consensus rules (included in the upcoming 1.3.1 release), so the legacy blockchain will be abandoned.

Please, stop spreading confusion among users and cite your sources whenever you announce something as important as this

This is fake news.

There will be hardfork of Sia in approximately 6 weeks (at block 139000) to correct a bug in the latest Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm. But it will not be an "airdrop" as it will not be a contentious hard fork: all the users, exchanges and miners will adopt the new consensus rules (included in the upcoming 1.3.1 release), so the legacy blockchain will be abandoned.

Please, stop spreading confusion among users and cite your sources whenever you announce something as important as this

The final version is not yet released. Yesterday developers published the Release Candidate 2 for beta-testers. That version is not recommended for final users.

If everything goes well, the final version should be pushed in a few days

The only complete one is the official client of Sia, that includes a wallet: https://sia.tech/apps/

There are also a couple of cold storage options. The generate you some addresses and a recovery seed to access the funds in the future, so you can send there funds for long-term savings. If you want to move the funds elsewhere, you'll need to download the full client and use the recovery seed provided by the cold wallet. This one, for example, is developed by one of the Core team developers, so it is 100% legit: https://github.com/avahowell/sia-coldstorage/releases

There is also a non-official Android app with wallet capabilities, but I would personally not trust it for large amounts of funds. In the past it suffered issues withdrawing funds too.

Unfortunately Sia only works on 64-bit CPUs, thus being impossible to run it on a RPi 1b+... It its however possible to run Sia on a RPi3.

If I understand you, your plan is using a RPi as a mini-NAS backed up on the cloud of Sia. That should work perfectly, but I would recommend you to keep files locally too. The Duplicati integration of Sia can help you a lot for that task.

Also consider a distribution created by a contributor of the community (@Kete) called SiaBerryOS: https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/6pzfeh/introducing_siaberryos_a_linux_operating_system/ It is meant not for renting, but for hosting data of the network. However it could be worth you take a look at it. Maybe you can adapt it to your needs


Thank you!

The 1.3.1 release will focus on these elements:

• Optional wallet auto-unlock on startup: This is a feature much demanded by hosts
• UI overhaul: The graphical elements are being redesigned, so the UX looks more clean and modern. Also, new explanatory elements are going to be added to assist new users to understand how to create an allowance for renting storage space, and more detail to the reports of how the funds are being expending during the contracts
• Renter overhaul: The whole backend code for renters is being redesigned. Without going into much technical detail (check the GitHub of Sia for details): a) the current version has problems of uploads being stalled, that's being fixed, b) currently the performance of Sia on a renter slows down when he approaches 5TB of uploaded data, so this is being optimized to allow up to 40TB (further increases are planned for the future); c) reduction in the RAM memory usage; d) a totally new filesystem that will allow nested folders to be uploaded; e) A feature called WAL (write ahead log) that will improve reliability of data upload and prevent data loss; f) many new parts of code that while they don't have an immediate use, will be the foundation of all the future features of Sia (like file sharing, recovery of files just with the seed, synchronizing files between two computers or file streaming)
• Connectivity fixes: There is an issue that is making 1.3.0 nodes loss sometimes the connectivity to other peers. This is being corrected
• Difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) fix: The recent hardfork for changing the DAA presented an unexpected bug, and a new hardfork will be introduced in this version of the software to correct it

And speaking about connectivity: if you are using the Sia client and your client is unable to sync to the latest block or you made a transfer but your client does not show it in the balance, try this workaround: https://www.siastats.info/nodes.html

Yes, the network is already working, and currently 3300 Terabytes of storage are available of which 100 are in use.

The problem is that the part of the code for renters needs to be optimized, to improve speed, scalability (currently renters can't upload more than 5TB) reliability and the ability to recover your files just with your recovery seed. All those items are in the roadmap, and actually the next version 1.3.1 that is about to be released on the next days will be a huge step forward in that direction.


The developers are being extremely transparent writing weekly reports about the development of Sia and other regular updates. Just check the #announcements channel on the Discord of Sia or the official Reddit


Just replace the installation with the files of the new version and you won't need to sync the blockchain again. For more details, check: https://siawiki.tech/client/updating_the_interface

Hi Wendy. Those 3360SC are included in a transaction on the block 135070, so it is already included in the blockchain and the funds are already in your address. You can check it on one of the available explorers here: https://explorer.siahub.info/hash/1a79a16a97247032b93643d5c35ade135b7941c9710120f9cdfbe959740133dc

- Are you using the last version of the client, v1.3.0? If you are using an older version, due to the hardfork of yesterday it will never sync up to that block (it is 70 blocks beyond the hardork point)

- Is your client fully sync with the network? As the transaction was done yesterday and blockchains sync chronologically, only the funds will show up in your balance once your client downloads that block very close to the 100% of the syncing process.

The fork just happened a few minutes ago and we are currently on block 135.001 :-)

No, no split or new coin generation has happened as all the miners, hosts and exchanges were updated to the client version compatible with the fork

BTW, just in case, if anyone has connectivity issues after the fork, check out this tool for connecting to more peers: https://siastats.info/nodes.html

- At Bisq (https://markets.bisq.network/?market=sf_btc) but they had very low volume in the last months

- Probably better at the Discord of Sia, on the #siafunds channel (https://discordapp.com/invite/sia), where trading is done "over the counter", using escrows. The user @Chanc3r has been a trusted escrow for years. Just read the last bids and offers and state yours.

With every new update, the initial sync time is being reduced. Right now, if your computer is using SSD (solid state disks) instead of spinning mechanical disks, the initial sync can be done under 8 hours.

Alternatively, you can download manually the blockchain (AKA bootstrapping) and be synced in just a couple of hours: https://siawiki.tech/daemon/bootstrapping_the_blockchain

Lite clients and SPV are on the roadmap of the core developers. And also independent developers are working on that.

Ultimately, take in mind that the endgame idea is that storage providers will use the Sia storage layer, so final users will instead download their software and pay the storage in FIAT, making the providers all the Sia conversion and keeping the blockchain in their servers. Final users won't even need to know what Sia or a blockchain is, and still benefit from cheap and decentralized storage

The minimal collateral required to set up a host is 2000 Sia, so you'll have enough for experimenting with hosting. However, you will need much more if you plan to host more than a few GB. But just remember all that collateral will be returned to you if you keep a good uptime (97% or more) and you keep the renter's files during all the contract (3 months by default).


No, there will be the same amount of coins generated per day after ASICs are released. In PoW coins the difficulty adjusts with the hashrate on the network, so the block time, and the reward of mined coins, remains stable. The hardfork of tomorrow precisely introduces a new algorithm for the difficulty adjustment that can cope with dramatic changes in hashrate and still keep the block time in 10 minutes.

In general all the coins that introduced ASICs in the past experimented an increase in the coin value. But of course that can't assure Sia will see the same phenomenon. BTW, ASICs will not be delivered until April-June of next year.


No consequences for Sia users. If you are using the client, just be sure you are using the version 1.3.0. Bittrex is already prepared, so they will keep working normally after the fork. For more info check: https://blog.sia.tech/reminder-upcoming-sia-hardfork-e0ffcde9ebcc

This is a miss-conception probably due to the recent cases of Bitcoin forks aimed to create new coins (Bitcoin Cash, Gold and so).

A hardfork is just a change in the very deep rules that govern a blockchain (called the consensus set of rules) that makes old versions of the clients to become incompatible with the new mined blocks. In this case, Sia is changing the algorithm that adjusts the mining Difficulty. The new version was introduced 6 months ago, and in that version this hardfork at block 135000 was already programmed.

If a hardfork becomes contentious, and so one part of the community accepts the new rules but not the other, 2 coins emerge from the hardfork (as with Bitcoin forks)

In the case of this fork of Sia, all the community is accepting the change. Almost all the hosts are using version 1.3.0 (the compatible version), all the exchanges, all the mining pools... This hardfork is being accepted by all the parts, and so there will be no creation of a new coin. After block 135000 all the coins in circulation, mined or in exchanges will be part of the upgraded blockchain. The legacy blockchain, together with the old version of Siacoins, will be abandoned, as no one is supporting the legacy coin.

In summary, the legacy coin is going to disappear, and your exchange will issue you the same amount of coins you had in the new coin. Of course, the name of the coin will remain as "Siacoin"

Do you need more info? Check the official post about the fork: https://blog.sia.tech/reminder-upcoming-sia-hardfork-e0ffcde9ebcc

It will be at block 135000 and we are currently at block 134679 (you can check the current block at https://www.siastats.info/index.html). Block time average is 10 minutes, so the hardfork is expected in 53 hours


If you are holding your coins in the official client, just be sure you are using the version 1.3.0. If it is an earlier version, just update. If not, you'll simply will not be able to see updated balances on your wallet, as you will not accept new blocks. However you'll always control your funds as long as you keep your recovery seed, so you can update at any moment in the future to send those coins anywhere else.

If you are holding on a exchange, it is safe to assume all the big ones are running an updated version of Sia, so they will keep operating normally (the compatible version was released 6 months ago!). However, as you probably know, holding your funds long-term on an exchange is a horrible idea as you don't control the keys of your coins, and so the exchanges can crash, can be hacked, can run away with your money, and you'll lose everything. For any coin you have, the safest place is always the official client (or a hardware wallet if the coins has one available, not the case of Sia), so you'll always control the keys that give access to the funds.

As far as we are aware, the developing company (Nebulous) does not have any other project they are preparing. Nebulous also owns a subsidiary called Obelisk that is developing ASIC miners, but the team behind it is different from the team developing SIa (with the exception of the CEO and the PR)

In my modest opinion, it is due to the incoming hardfork at block 135000 (in about 2-3 days):

- The hardfork news are giving a lot of visibility to Sia. Unfortunately most of the traders that move the markets do not read accurate sources of information and believed for several months the project was dying (totally false, the development has not stopped at any time and we had very good news in the last months). So more exposure in the social media lead to people read about Sia.

- A lot of traders have the miss-conception that the hardfork will drive to the creation of 2 coins in a similar was as Bitcoin Cash fork, so they are buying SC ahead of the fork. This is totally incorrect and people need to understand that this hardork will not create two coins: It is network upgrade that will make old client versions incompatible with the new rules of the blockchain. All users, miners and exchanges are going to use the new blockchain rules, and so the legacy chain will be abandoned. The Siacoin we will all use is the new one, and the legacy Siacoin will not be listed on any exchange, as no miners will mine for it, no users will use it.

Check the wiki: https://siawiki.tech/index

A good article to start is: https://siawiki.tech/about/introduction_to_sia


All the data uploaded to the Sia network is encrypted by the TwoFish algorithm, considered one of the safest available.