I wish someone would sell me a Sia Fund or 2  |
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Hey Boarders, Just received a email from Storji, you have heard of them right? Well they beat you to it  Email extract. $384,000 Invested from 11 investor's - Storj brings cloud storage to the Blockchain to make your files cheaper, faster and more secure than services like DropBox and Google Drive When Bitcoin invented the Blockchain it made it possible for you to own your own money and send it cheaper, faster and more securely than when using a bank. It also gave investors the opportunity to profit from the same privileges that banks and governments have had for decades - the ability to benefit from the profits of newly created money. Now Storj has taken that very same model and applied it to file storage. We all use services like Google Drive, Apple iCloud and Dropbox to store our files and we place a lot of trust in them to keep those files safe and secure, but what if we no longer have to? Storj allows users to store their files encrypted across a decentralised network of computers rather than trusting one company to keep your files safe. This means they can be stored cheaper, faster and more securely as there is no central point of failure. It also means that anybody can rent out their spare hard drive space and get paid for contributing to the network. Storj is the AirBnb of file storage. Qualifying Investors can check out full details about So what's new? and what's your point? maybe they beat Maidsafe to it? but they fall short as well like Storj Storj is what it is and Sia has its own means of storage and how you pay, and how you can earn money by renting/hosting out that storage. How much can I earn per GH/month by hosting Storj? Can I share my files publicly using Storj? or upload various file types to sunfish servers with Storj? for others to download and use? or is it only good for storing my junk files on... can my files be used for collaboration with Storj? Also: can I mine for Storj coins to pay for my hosting? or would I be "forced" to buy coins at market price only... can I use Storj coins for other things? I just don't see where Storj has anything to offer that compares or even comes close to the potential of Sia. Storj just doesn't measure up at the end of the day. Sia will virtually have its own global economy which can be expanded upon, even rival Bitcoin possibly one day as a very reliable and secure form of cyrpto currency. Ok, good luck with Storj, report back in a year  |
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Is there a sia testnet? How to set the wallet to use it?
Nobody knows? Still no testnet. We'll probably have one for 0.5.0. Is there a strong reason that you need one? I can help you set one up but you'll need to recompile Sia with some constants changed. I need low diff to test miners. Not having a pool, I thought the simple way, without modifying the wallet, was testnet. Clever idea for testing out miners  ...... hopefully a pool soon though. |
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Taek, thanks for that update. Looking good! |
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Happy 4 months SIA Anyway, is there any updated status for mining pool? Just pretty hard to find a block now. Regards. Just hoping to hear back from ocminer perhaps with a suprnova pool.... longshot... but would be very nice. |
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Start miner sia-gpu-miner.exe but after initialization give me a message "Mining 0.000MH/s 0 blocks mined HTTP error 500" and do not wants to start mining. Nobody can help! ?!?!..We will obviously wait for new version GUI wallet 0.4.4 Ya I am getting same error code HTTP 500. I tried all my miners old and new... no luck  I wonder if all the hashing power we see lately is on older version wallets? Either it is, or there is a new working miner that hasn't been released to the rest of us yet |
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Hey guess what  today is exactly 4 months since SIAcoin launch happy 4 month anniversary! Look how far this project has come since then. I remember mining test net with a CPU lol Taek and the rest of the dev team, Great job thus far |
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Looks like this is the death of SIA. I would sell now guys. This coin is an obvious P&D operation. STAY CLEAR!
Are you nuts? lol I am thinking about buying up 10 more mil while the gett'n is still good This project is doing just fine. Great strides are being made in its development. |
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So far I am really like 4.3 BAD bugs seem fixed. However I am also having problems with my miner that did work with 4.2 and 3.3.3 sooooo...... not a big deal personally as I am not mining Sia atm. But would like to see it work just the same ... I may want to resume mining lol |
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I have been sending large blocks of Sia coin up to Poloniex this afternoon, taking advantage of this very nice network hash rate. Never seen confirmation so quickly! This is more like it  lol Ps: Only moving coins in anticipation of new Sia version releases and not so distant fork.... Not dumping! just a safety precaution |
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Anyone heard anything from ocminer on a possible pool? I'm guessing not, I may shoot a pm to him. Really would be a plus right now to have. |
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ocminer is the man for the job! You have my vote! Its time to work on a pool I do believe Thx Taek and ocminer |
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So, any news about a pool ?
I suppose with these swings in hash rate and the effect it has on transaction times etc. perhaps the emphasis on getting a pool may need to be brought to the front burner. I know other priority's have moved a pool back, and understandably so, but it may be more relevant now that we get a pool soon for the network. |
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Intervals between blocks (ignoring 18134) is now > 1 hour.
Last block was mined > 2 1/2 hours ago.
What's going on?
the difficulty is high Combined with a decreasing hash rate: Hash rate (last 1000 blocks) 343.893958 GH/s Hash rate (last 100 blocks) 183.919383 GH/s Hash rate (last 25 blocks) 129.552348 GH/s Will the difficulty be automatically reduced to take this into account? After all, we still want 10 min blocks. I had to wait ~3 hours for my funds to arrive into my wallet. Yes it will adjust. This has happened before. Problem is, its cheaper for me and easier to buy the same amount coins as I might would get mining vs. electricity cost. Now if Sia goes back to 25-30 than it will start all over again.. everyone will jump back in mining while price is higher and difficulty low. I think this is just part of the ups and downs between version releases. Sooner or later it will have to level out again and stay that way. |
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Are miners leaving?
Interval between blocks a few days ago was 10-15 min.
Here are timestamps of last 5 blocks
18131 Sep 22, 2015 at 3:35pm (UTC)
18132 Sep 22, 2015 at 4:35pm (UTC)
18133 Sep 22, 2015 at 5:10pm (UTC)
18134 Sep 22, 2015 at 4:28pm (UTC)
18135 Sep 22, 2015 at 5:59pm (UTC)
Was block 18133 mined before 18134 and 18132? Is that even possible?
Intervals between blocks (ignoring 18134) is now > 1 hour.
Last block was mined > 2 1/2 hours ago.
What's going on?
Very interesting observation  like you said is it even possible..... strange to see that lol |
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I guess all of this is up for discussion and opinions....you have some valid points also. Lets put it this way, of all the cloud storage hosting's offered out there, I would trust Sia more then the rest in terms of keeping my identity and files secured Don't give us too much faith until we're out of beta  Some of the algorithms still need improvement. lol Taek, I hear ya! I have full confidence in the project and your talents just the same |
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I can also see a point in time where company's/individuals would be willing to pay even more for SIA services because of its anonymity.
Can you elaborate on how SIA (or: Sia?) provides anonymity to hosters and/or renters? What I understand of SIA thus far is that hosted files are split and encrypted. But this is not the same as anonymity. Well the way I understand it is that an individual file upload will be split into pieces of data amongst 6 or 8 storage host somewhere in the world. The only way to see that file in a complete useful way is through the up loaders wallet. There is no way to actually view a file on any one storage host. (as its in a piece of the data) So that's really close to being anonymous I would think. I think I misunderstood what you meant by anonymity. To me, anonymity implies that ones identity is hidden. You refer to the contents of files. The content of files are impossible to read, assuming the Sia devs implemented the cryptography correctly... So, your files are safe and readable only by you, no doubt. However, your identity is not necessarily a secret. Your activity on the network is public on the Sia blockchain, and your IP address is known by all participating nodes. Thus, a nefarious 3rd party could operate 'honey pot' hosts in order to track uploaders. So, I don't think you can expect to remain anonymous on the Sia network, i.e. in the sense that your identity is protected. It remains to be seen, whether someone could go from an IP address to proving that you have uploaded a particular file. I mentioned comparison of the Merkel root hash in my other reply to you as one possibility. File size is another possibility, although that would not be definite proof. Both of these possibilities assume the tracker already has an identical copy of your file (e.g. which may be the case if you are uploading copyrighted content). I guess all of this is up for discussion and opinions....you have some valid points also. Lets put it this way, of all the cloud storage hosting's offered out there, I would trust Sia more then the rest in terms of keeping my identity and files secured To be continued ..... its a good topic for discussion... |
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Just playing around with uploading files from my wallet to Sia storage. I sent one mp3 file, Sia-UI zip, a Windows10 iso file and a windows 10 media creation tool. What's cool is I could share those files on Sunfish and anyone could download that file like the W10 iso and burn it to a DVD etc. and have a fully working clean install version. (no comments about W10 btw lol) just used it for a larger file test. Now each of those files are now split up on at least 6 of the 30 known host hard drives. And 1/6 of a file could be on any one of those 30 host. So how would anyone know I uploaded an iso file up to the network? as an example. Now imagine instead of 30 host we have 3000 host. Now I'm sure my IP service would know I have sent files up maybe based on bandwidth or something or possibly the size even, but I don't think they would know what it is that I sent. Please correct if wrong on that, as I am half assuming and half asking But all of this has so much potential in todays world. Its great. One thing I did notice again: when actually uploading the files it really puts a drag on my internet bandwidth, albeit I only have a 1.5 MB upload speed. But during the file upload I can barely open bitcoin talk lol takes forever to load a page until uploaded files have finished. I am going to test this more.... has anyone else noticed the drag on bandwidth or for those who have more upload speed? A footnote: Prior to uploading the above files I had 248 Sia coins in the test wallet... I now have only 7 Sia coins left! Woot this is getting expensive lol j/k we know someone just got paid 241 Sia coins for those 4 files. Total Gb is right around 3.4 GB, so about 70 Sia coins per GB/month if my math is right ... even though the estimated cost shows 373 Sia per Gb. ok its late and I'm tired Just fun to play with and study |
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I can also see a point in time where company's/individuals would be willing to pay even more for SIA services because of its anonymity.
Can you elaborate on how SIA (or: Sia?) provides anonymity to hosters and/or renters? What I understand of SIA thus far is that hosted files are split and encrypted. But this is not the same as anonymity. The list of hosts, with their IPs, is publicly accessible. Similarly, I understand transactions on the blockchain are transparent. Thus, transactions on the blockchain are pseudanonymous, not strictly anonymous. Well the way I understand it is that an individual file upload will be split into pieces of data amongst 6 or 8 storage host somewhere in the world. The only way to see that file in a complete useful way is through the up loaders wallet. There is no way to actually view a file on any one storage host. (as its in a piece of the data) So that's really close to being anonymous I would think. What your suggesting is that some entity would have to know what pieces to what file is stored where in the world and somehow retrieve that data from each host and somehow piece it all back together without having the actual wallet that uploaded it? I don't know seems pretty hard to imagine that a file could be hacked in any way shape or form. Let alone know who the owner is? maybe I missed something in the security features. Other words how would you or anyone know what files I may have stored on the network? Maybe you can elaborate that part more? lol |
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yes it deff should be, I'll give it a read tonight... I'm still trying to wrap my head around how this is all put together newb Q... is there pos reward at all ? Once you do you will love this concept. I hardly spend anytime anywhere else these days lol.... I still scrypt mine alts but not much to talk about there... same old same old" that's why SIA is so refreshing and interesting even with the growing pains! Oh and no pos (proof of stake) that I am aware of anyways lol |
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