What is the point of Sia then...
The blockchain is currently less than 4.5Gb. That is a small size that can be handled by any computer. BTC blockchain is 125Gb, for instance. Next update (v1.3), that will be released in the very next days, will accelerate the initial download. And in the future, dev team or independent devs can develop light wallets for certain case-uses. But as with any crypto, the safest way is to store your coins is a client that can verify the full blockchain instead of trusting on a 3rd party that could be manipulating your transactions |
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hi
i have to let open always siad.exe and sia-ui in same time or i did a mistake?
also i didnt find wallet.dat only wallet.db, is that the same?
i just bought some coin for hold and after 2 days sync, i still dont understand how this wallet works
please just i need a little explanation for dummy as me, how save my coin correctly?
thanks
If you open the UI, you will see that Windows has those two processes: siad.exe and Sia-UI. Both are required to run the UI. Siad.exe is the "central component" of the wallet, while Sia-UI is a visual interface to interact with siad.exe. (If you were using a command line interface instead of the UI, you would be using siac.exe to interact with siad instead of the UI, but if you are a basic user, don't mess with this) If you just need to keep your coins, you don't need to keep a backup of the wallet file. The only thing you need is the wallet seed that was generated when you created the wallet (the sequence of words). Keep that seed pasted in a document or printed in paper. The seed is the only thing needed to recover your funds in a different computer Siacoins price has been plummeting over the last week. This is unusual considering the obselisk is set to release in less than 3 days. What is going on?
Speculators doing their usual thing. Nothing more, nothing less. Many other cryptos including BTC are having the same trend |
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If Im renting my storage on the Sia network, is my IP address visible? Like not only for the people who will rent it but also for the public?
Yes your IP is public. It is info submitted to the blockchain at the moment you announce your host, and it is in the hostdb file on every Sia client. In every P2P network, IPs are known by the rest of the peers If it was not public, no potential renter could ever reach your host to make file contracts! |
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Is the number of hosts increasing or decreasing? I would expect a specialization progress like the bitcoin mining that small hosts can't compete against growing hosts who specialist in hosting for sia. Of course, in the case of bitcoin the gaining need of performance to mine the coins is an important factor. But also bigger hosting provider can work more efficient and provide better conditions than smaller one (and profit more).
I would expect that on the long turn only a few hosts will continue which is obviously against the sia philosophy. How is this handled or am I wrong?
The number of hosts is actually increasing dramatically. 3 months ago we were 150, and today we are 650 in the network. While one could imagine only the top50 or top100 would survive, there are reasons that will avoid centralization: - When the overall used space grows, top hosts will run out of space or collateral (probably sooner out of collateral), giving room for other hosts - Certain renters will prefer only hosts in their specific country or region (a US hospital that wants to be HIPPA compliant, a EU company forced to store their client's data in EU servers) - On future updates, manual culling and pickup of hosts will be improved, so renters will choose according to their needs: some hosts with a limited bandwidth specialize with a very cheap storage price and high bandwidth costs, so they'll pick up data from renters that want cold storage solutions So there is a mechanic that I automatically prefer the faster hosts?
In general, as each piece data is 3x reduntant, the bottleneck is actually the faster of those 3 hosts ;-). But also, in a future update they'll implement latency as a factor for choosing the host when forming a contract, so by default you'll pick up the fastest and closest hosts |
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Hello,
reading about Sia brang up some questions.
1. Sia tries to ensure a 95% uptime of the hoster. That means the hosters computer must be 95% of the time running and connected to the internet. This doesn't apply to the average use. Does this mean there a only a few people using their computer for Sia hosting 25/7?
2. If a hoster with (a part of) my data is down, does this affect me directly that i can't access of this particular data? Or is there a back up, like saving the same data on multiple hosters to ensure that there is at least on online hoster.
3. How does the blockchain technology affects the speed of downloading my data from the cloud compared to "normal" cloud storage like amazon or dropbox? I guess the hoster with the slowest internet connection will default it, like the weakest link of the chain.
Good questions there: 1- The required uptime is actually 97% (95% is still risky if you don't want to lose collateral). For sure hosting is not for those that want to run hosting on a laptop or computer you usually turn on demand: you need a dedicated machine, in a similar way you need specialized gear for mining a crypto. That doesn't mean it is not for the "average" user: you can use a home server, a Minebox, or even cheaper, something like an Intel NUC. Currently the network is formed by 650 active hosts 2- Data is stored with a redundancy algorithm called Reed-Solomon. Your data is divided in chuncks and shared among 50 hosts with a 3x redundancy. That means that even if 2/3 of those 50 hosts go down, you still have access to your data 3- The blockchain is used only to submit the file contratcs, to enforce the payments, and for the hosts to submit their proofs of storage. The day-by-day data upload and download is a direct connection between the renter and his hosts. And it is blazing fast. And thanks to the 3x redundancy, even if you have a slow host, the other 2 for that piece of data will compensate |
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something going on with the wallet? I get A Sia-UI error has occured: Siad unexpectedly closed. Using windows wallet. Tried windows daemon as well and it cannot load correctly...
1) Which software version are you using? Sia UI Version: 1.0.2Sia version 1.2.22) When opening in the command line, at which step stops? Can you provide what the command line indicates? siad.exe -d "C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Sia-UI\sia"
Loading...
(0/6) Loading siad...
(1/6) Loading gateway...
(2/6) Loading consensus...
(3/6) Loading transaction pool...
(4/6) Loading wallet...
(5/6) Loading host...
(6/6) Loading renter...
Closing host...
Closing wallet...
Closing transaction pool...
Closing consensus set...
Closing gateway..
unable to read persisted json object from disk: Sia-UI\sia\renter\contractor.json_temp: The system cannot find the file specified
.happens after i fire up the UI after the daemon and trying to unlock wallet with seed. Try unlocking the wallet first in the command line with the UI closed. Open siad.exe in one window, and in a second command type "siac wallet unlock". Paste your seed and if it unlocks successfully, try to go back to the UI If that fails, delete the Sia folder you de-compressed (but keep the consensus, renter, host, walllet and so folders) and install it again from a freshly downloaded client Be sure to download the v.1.2.2 and no other version |
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something going on with the wallet? I get A Sia-UI error has occured: Siad unexpectedly closed. Using windows wallet. Tried windows daemon as well and it cannot load correctly...
1) Which software version are you using? 2) When opening in the command line, at which step stops? Can you provide what the command line indicates? |
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That is a very good excuse for the sia asics. The 51% attack is not only to kill the coin, is alsoto pump and manipulate its value and in turn make it a mafia coin. If you people are trying to find an excuse to implement and make the people, miners, investors to accept it, you people need to try it harder cause as i have a phd in computer science, you trolls will never convince me because there is nothing good about asics in any way concerning crypto. I'm an anti-asic person, things should never be controlled by few and yet that is how many asic coins are and in their long term they are bound to die.
Keep calm buddy, I am not part of the team or are related anyhow to it. Nice you have a PhD in computer science. Mine is in Molecular Biology, and we are just two users having a calmed discussion about ASICs. I am also a an anti-ASIC but for the simple reason it is the start of a technology race that ends up wasting thousands of MegaWatts. And be sure by any means I will buy one for that reason. What I am discussing is just that from the perspective of securing a blockchain, using a dedicated hardware instead general computers can have advantages. There are pros, there are cons, and it is nice to discuss about them. Best wishes ;-) EDIT --> No problem at all, Metroid ;-) |
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You know that with asics the chances are much higher right? few people can totally obliterated the network and so on, Its very unlike any of the 3 biggest pools will get a 51% stake as for asics yes, they can do that with few resources. GPU mining is the most secure cause anybody owns a gpu and can mine and secure the network, now for asics only selected few and if they group each other then bye bye.
If asics come to SIAcoin then will it end? My guess is in the long term yes, see how sha256 coins are done for? nobody invest on them, there is no way to control the asics.
Check the thread, seriously, it may give you a different perspective. What is good for a big coin like ETH may not be good for small coins. If they fall in small hands you are right. But currently, most of GPU mining is of big centralized farms too. Also, there is another factor: the value of the ASIC depends on the value of the coin. With GPUs, I do a 51% attack on ETH, I will make the price of ETH to dump, but I can still resell my GPUs to gamers or computation centers. With ASICs, if I do a 51% attack... I will have tons of useless and worthless hardware around in the aftermath :-P |
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gpu mining is the most secure way to secure the network
No it is not for small coins. Sia mining network is equivalent to 1/8th of the total GPUs mining ETH. That means that if any of the 3 biggest ETH mining pools turns to mine SIA, they can instantly do a 51% attack. There are several other reasons to explain why GPUs are bad for the security of small coins. Check the post I mentioned of the dev team: https://blog.sia.tech/choosing-asics-for-sia-b318505b5b51 |
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They can fuck themself, their shitcoin storage nobody will ever use, and their fuckin miner.
Greedy useless devs.
A very well-funded and explained opinion, of course. The crypto-world needs more people like you  |
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Guys, can someone please enlighten me on one specific issue: I am mining Sia and have transferred some proceeds to my local wallet. Will I be able to keep transferring to that same address or will I HAVE TO generate a new address every time, i.e. not being able to use the threshold-auto-payout function in the pool?
As with many other cryptocurrencies, a wallet is a collection of addresses. Every time you ask the client UI to give you an address it will be a new one (for security an anonymity reasons), but the old ones will keep working forever. Just be sure to never lose the recovery seed of your wallet ;-) Anybody has experience with hosting?
I would like to try but not sure which prices should i put
Check this handbook first: https://forum.sia.tech/topic/1037/the-hosting-handbookThe most competitive hosts are targeting at the $1-2 as price per Tb/month. Bandwidth costs should be lower than storage pricing. Collateral optimally 2-3x the storage costs. Be sure to have a huge collateral budget if you plan to offer several TB's |
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Hi, tell me please, how restore old wallet v0.3.3.3 to the new?
In the command line of the UI type "siac wallet load 033x (path of your wallet)" Every file contract pays a fee of 3.9%. Those are paid to SiaFund holders. Only 10.000SF are available. 1200 were sold in an ICO. The rest is owned by the developers. It is an excellent way to encourage the devs to keep working for the success of the platform, as they'll have benefits only if Sia gets massive adoption. |
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Lol, I'm talking about the sia wallet sync, which is taking forever and I can't access to the siacoins I sent from bittrex. From the previous page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg19675020#msg19675020https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg19675870#msg19675870https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg19677884#msg19677884I could have sold the siacoins when the price was higher to buy some more Shift and get more profit than what I'm getting right now with SC (which is giving me zero profit right now, and I'm actually losing money since I sent them to the wallet), and maybe later I could buy some SC again with said profits, but I just can't because their sh*tty wallet needs an eternity to sync and in the meanwhile I can't access to my SC. I don't even know if my SC are in the wallet because I can't see the balance until the wallet is synchronized, but I guess they are there because they are not in Bittrex since I sent them. If I had known that the sync could take this long, I would have never sent the SC to the wallet and I would have kept them in Bittrex until the sync was done, but nowhere in their site they warn that the sync can take such a long time and that in the meanwhile you just can't access your SC. I bought the SC as a long term investment, but after this, as soon as the wallet is sync, I don't care what they announce this friday, I'll sell all my SC and will never look back, because it's not normal having to wait for DAYS until the wallet is sync and that in the meanwhile you can't access you SC and that this is not warned anywhere in their site.  Downloading the blockchain on a HDD takes about 3 days. If you need to speed it up, use SSDs instead, and it will be only a few hors. It is an intesnsive process,a s every block has to be validated. Just relax and wait. And stop blaming the software because it is your bad entirely. The question of "How long does it take to sync the blockchain" is asked every couple of days here. If you have checked previous pages you'll have seen the answer dozens of times. If you were a "long-term investor" as you mentioned, why selling so fast?. If you are a short-term speculator, why withdrawing from the exchange? If you wanted to withdraw, nevertheless, why didn't you did your part and investigate a bit about the coin before? So this news that they might release some sort of ASIC specially built for SIA, this will speed up the blocks right? Will that cause them to be more rare when it reaches the point that there is less coins per block to be mined?
No, you are not understanding the principles of mining in crypto-currencies. If global hashing power increases, the protocol increases the difficulty so the average block time remains constant: 10 minutes Does Sia Coin support running on a Raspberry Pi?!
64-bit machines are required. 8Gb RAM recommended. Far far away from the possibilities of a RPi, sorry. If you want a cheap 24/7 machine for hosting, why not an Intel NUC instead? ;-) |
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I've got the wallet fully synced on one computer. Is there a folder I can copy to my laptop to get it in sync quicker. Don't want to wait 3 days again.
Yes, you can copy/paste the consensus folder. It is not located on the folder you de-compress from the zip, but in a different place. In Windows, it is in Users/your_user/appdata/roaming/sia It will have to validate the blockchain in the new computer, but it will be just some hours, instead of days i've never had to wait more than 45 minutes to sync. even from fresh install. running macbook pro 2011 ssd. could be non windows is faster, or it's the ssd?
Right, on SSDs it is blazing fast. But on HDDs will take up to 2-3 days I think there is a trick to sync it quicker with a download file, not too sure of the details.
Maybe you can ask on the sia reddit?? IM sure they would know there I have seen someone have a similar slow issue
Fornax, a very reputable user, keeps a repository of consensus.db files for downloading: https://forum.sia.tech/topic/155/consensus-db-downloads You can simple use the latest one. Also, tech-savvy users can use a RAM-disk to download and validate the blockchain in just a few minutes. But that is out of the reach of average users |
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tanx hakkane ...
that has already been done - and the older wallets have been imported - so my gratitude to all those that have helped to do this ...
BUT - the wallet.json ones are the issue ( i had MANY sia wallets over the mining period i went through with sia ) ...
there is NO information - NOTHING - to give me instruction on HOW to import these wallet.json files ... i know the wallet password - and i just need to import these wallets ( 3 of them ) ... but because they use the wallet.json format - and not the wallet.dat format - they cant be imported via the method above ... yet there is no information as to HOW to do such a thing ANYWHERE ...
and believe me - i have searched ...
taek? ... has he any ideas? ...
#crysx
Devs do not check bitcointalk regularly. Go to the Slack and ask it to the devs (@taek, @johnathanhowell...): https://siatalk.slack.com/messagesThe length of the file contracts was a 3 months. Now its 3 months later and the rest of the ammount is still alocated.
Has the sia-tech some support ?
That is very weird, Your funds must be back in your wallet. Are you sure your client is fully sync to the blockchain? Yes, they are answering questions all the time at the Slack. Go there to the #help channel: https://siatalk.slack.com/messagesIs there any profit calculator?
http://siapulse.com/page/tools |
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Is there something wrong with the network? How long are blocks supposed to take to be confirmed?
Nothing wrong at my node: fully sync and receiving and broadcasting blocks as usual........ (?) Are you downloading the blockchain the first time? It can take 2-3 days to fully sync it in HHDs (about 1 day on SSDs) |
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Hi all,
Does anybody know how long are sia coins allocated ?
I allocated the coins in the October 2016 and after deleting the files in March 2017
the rest of the coins still didnt return to my wallet.
Hi, the non-used part of your allowance should be returned by the end date of your file contracts. So even if you have deleted the files in advance, if you made file contracts for longer times, they will be locked until contracts finish |
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