Are you trying to introduce the command in a Terminal of Windows or in the Terminal of the Sia-UI? What I meant is using the Terminal included in the UI: there is a tab in the left side of the UI that says "Terminal" use the command "wallet init-seed --force" there and if a prompt pops up asking you for a seed or password, use the recovery seed

Check that you are introducing 29 words, with a single space between them, no missing words, no extra spaces or line breaks. Check all the words make sense in English.

Also, it is possible during your attempts you created a new wallet, so Sia is expecting you to introduce the new seed, not the old one. If that is the case you need to delete the current wallet and initialize a new one with the seed you have. For this, go to the Terminal tab of the UI and type . Anytime it prompts you for a password, introduce your recovery seed.


Sia does not have any official Telegram group. If you find one claiming to be the official, it is a scam, most probably a fake pump&dump group.

Looks like that accidentally you or the software deleted the wallet folder. It is not an issue as long as you keep the recovery seed (the sequence of 29 words). After loading Sia, whenever it asks you for a password, type the seed. Afterwards you can create a new custom password.

But in general remember that:
- Password: only valid for your local machine
- Recovery seed: valid in any computer on any future time. Forever

The last that I read a couple of days ago, the chips manufacturer have sent them already the chips. They are functional (that's good) but they are still testing their final specifications. I am guessing they will publish an update soon. But considering there is an arms race between Obelisk and Bitmain, I won't be surprised if they decide to hide the final shipping date and specifications until the very moment they start shipping to keep the strategic advantage over Bitmain (I am sure they in turn have a "A3+" model on works aimed just to damage Obelisk)

If you want to stay in the loop I would recommend you joining the Discord of Obelisk: https://discord.gg/zt9JznT 

Because Bitcointalk is not an official community channel anymore and so the core devs do not post here anymore. Check instead on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook or the official Forum.


You can check weekly updates on the official @SiaTechHQ account on Twitter or on the new Sia-TV Youtbe channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYtlUu6bUghAca0ADmlxCKw

No, the last version is 1.3.2. Download it here: https://sia.tech/get-started

You are stuck in an old block (we are currently at #148565) because your software is incompatible with the two hard forks that happened in the last months.


Instant wallet unlock is a feature that was introduced, iirc, in 1.2.0 1 year ago (but first unlock will always take longer as it scans the blockchain). Damm it, update that wallet, LOL 

You can check the pools in Sia here and even find the configuration parameters for A3's here: https://www.siastats.info/pools_list

Both Luxor and Siamining are community-driven pools, what makes them recommendable. However, Siamining currently holds more than 50% of the hashrate so people should spread among other pools to preserve decentralization. Luxor is probably a great option, as they are Sia code contributors, and in top of that, part of their earnings are donated to Core developers. Currently they have 0.3% fees (all a donation to core devs) and they are experiencing awesome luck finding blocks recently, what makes them very attractive economically too.

The dev team does not "allow" or can "prohibit" no exchange to trade Siacoins. The whole software is open-source, so any exchange (good or bad, legit or scam) can open trading pairs without requesting permission and they can't be banned either if they misbehave.

Poloniex has a long dark history of Sia users that have lost transactions and tickets that needed months to be addressed (or were not addressed at all). Moreover, in the past they did not contacted the Sia dev team when they had problems or answered the team's communications attempts. For all these reasons, in July of last year Poloniex was dropped from the list of officially recommended exchanges.

Apparently, since the acquisition of Poloniex by Circle things are changing and now Poloniex team is working closely with the dev team to address issues. With this, I am not trying to recommend you to use Poloniex at all, I am just presenting you what happened in the past and the current situation, in top of trying to explain why the Sia team has no responsibility or control over bad or rouge exchanges (as the software is open-sourced and any exchange can take it and make a wallet)

Some people is reporting TXs are needing like 1-2 hours to be finally pushed to the network or to be credited to your Polo account, so looks like for now they are working, but slowly. Just wait for longer. I can imagine they are still testing everything is on place

First, update to the newest version, 1.3.2. Download it here: https://sia.tech/get-started

If you don't know how to update, follow this: https://siawiki.tech/client/updating_the_interface

After restarting, if your client is still stuck at that block, follow this solution: https://medium.com/@sia_steve/sia-support-update-transactions-and-syncing-52dad5858711

The blockchain is currently 10GB big (https://www.siastats.info/blockchain_size)

To fully sync, it will require a few hours (less than 10) if you are using a SSD disk (not mechanical) or 2-3 days if you are using a HDD (spinning mechanical disks)

You setup your own pricing. However, as it is a competitive marketplace, you'll want to stay around the average prices to get file contracts. You can check the pricing of the the top 100 hosts (in score terms) in the second table of this page: https://siastats.info/hosts_network


Two weeks ago the software version 1.3.2 was released, including a wallet fix aimed to exchanges. So right now Poloniex just have to update. Apparently, the Circle team (the company that recently purchased Poloniex) is handling the testing and update of their wallets. They should be back online very soon


I've been running two host machines for a year too without any special issue. You might like the UI or not, but it works. Moreover, most of the hosts don't even use the UI for hosting and just rely in the Daemon, the Command Line Interface, as it is not so difficult to use (you are going to use 5 commands or less all the time) and consumes much less computer resources.

No one is "issuing" 100s of billions of coins. Siacoins are produced purely by PoW mining, so new coins are held by miners, not by developers (they are not "issued" by the developers like in other coins). Nebulous actually controls less than 1% of the total circulation.

By no means the coins in circulation are in the order of 100s of billions. Currently 32 billions are in circulation, and the supply will not reach 100 billions not even in 50 years: https://siastats.info/supply_inflation


This has been largely discussed in the past: hosts are not liable of the contents they hold in their disks. It is like trying to accuse Amazon or Azure because their servers were holding a website with links to illegal content instead of accusing the proper website. From the Wiki:

Can I be held liable for user's files if they store illegal content?

In the United States; hosts are considered safe from user submitted content under section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Storage providers, websites and ISPs (Internet Service Providers) are considered protected under 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act. No cases in the US have specifically accused websites of CP. Section 230©(1) is considered a “safe harbor” but has never been tried in a court of law.

In the European union; hosts may be protected by Directive 2000/31/EC as long as they meet certain criteria.

One small note: SiaFunds are not being "issued". All the 10.000 SiaFunds were originated on the genesis of the blockchain, 3 years ago. About 1200 were sold originally to investors to fundraise the project, and the remaining 8800 were held by Nebulous Inc. as an incentive to align the interests of the developing team with the growth of the network (SF dividends depend on the usage of the storage network).

No new SiaFunds are being issued this time: it is simply Nebulous Inc. (core developers) selling 750SF of their stack of 8800 to increase the funding of the team. This will be very positive for the whole Sia sphere, as with those funds they'll be able to pay more developers to push ahead the roadmap and pay other stuff like marketing campaigns once the network is production-ready.

Moreover, the beauty of SiaFunds is that the investors buying them become contributors/partners: They'll only get dividends if they help pushing the adoption of the storage network, so these investors will really promote the long-term organic growth of Sia and not short-term pump schemes like traditional "investors" of coins.

The current team is shown in the website: https://sia.tech/about . They are currently hiring 4 extra team members

This is a general roadmap: https://sia.tech/roadmap and this one a more feature-oriented roadmap: https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-feature-roadmap

Those small transactions are just wallet auto-defragmentation: you might have multiple addresses containing balances and the wallet merges them into a single address to facilitate future expending. Each time the wallet defragmentates, is a transaction in the network, and those -0.088SC are the fees for that transaction.


The storage network has been working since day 1 of the blockchain, for the last 2 years and half. Currently it consists on more than 4 Petabytes across almost 900 hosts in 58 countries (https://www.siastats.info/hosts_network). Core developers keep working on improving the protocol and the client. For instance version 1.3.1 released 2 months ago increased the upload speeds to more than 50Mbps and version 1.3.2, that will be released in a few days, will improve the downloads speed and reliability: beta testers are reporting consistently average download speeds above 50Mbps too.

The release date of Obelisks will be June or before. There are good chances they can be delivered sooner than expected, but there is not yet official confirmations on this

I don't see your point about the effect of ASICs being responsible of downtrends in the coin price: on every coin where ASICs have been deployed (Scrypt coins like Litecoin, Dash...) the coin price has increased in the end, probably because the increased security provides confidence in the network, and because the cost of the hardware gets tied to the value of the mined coins

In top of what the official Sia website shows, you can also track multiple statistics and metrics about Sia in https://siastats.info


If you are around the world of cryptos for long enough, you will learn that whenever the Bitcoin is bullish, most of the rest of altcoins drop their value. If you want to but Bitcoins, you need to sell the alts you own, is that simple. If you look at the Siacoin/Dollar conversion rates, they have been stable at 2 cents over the last 2 weeks. Siacoin value is not falling (or not so bad, at least): it is the Bitcoin rallying up. If you care more about the BTC value of your coins instead of the USD value of them, hold Bitcoins instead of altcoins...

Sometimes markets rise. Sometimes markets fall. It is what happens every day on every coin, asset and stock exchange. Traditionally when BTC rises, most of the rest of altcoins fall. Nothing misterious here: the amount invested in cryptos by traders is what it is, and if a trader wants to buy BTC, he will need to sell his altcoins.

You can be sad or unsettled because the price is not the one you want. But claiming that a fall in price is due to a scam like that user said, or you quoted and said he was right, is simply FUD and it is out of place in this forum unless you have proofs to sustain that.

If you need a hint of what is going on, check the rest of Alts: similar trends. Check Bitcoin: opposite trend

It is hilarious that an account with a negative trust of -4 yells scam and immediately 2 accounts quote him and say "yes, it is true" explaining something unrelated afterwards.

Your past in bitcointalk.com speaks louder than you, scammer

Of course the development is active. It is open-source and you can check the coding activity in GitHub: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/pulse In the last 7 days, 7 pull requests were merged, 4 were opened and 11 issues were closed.

The Release Candidate 2 of the future version 1.3.2 was released to beta testers this week. Most probably the general release of 1.3.2 will take place in 1-2 weeks. The biggest features of this release are a huge revamp in the file downloads speed and reliability, cheaper contract formation fees and scalability for the wallet, so exchanges don't have more issues in the future (Poloniex issues should be solved as soon as they apply the update).