Are you one of the developers?

Is it on the development roadmap?

Is there a way I can upload a file and get paid Siacoin each time someone downloads it?
Also has the UI wallet supporting siafunds been released?
What's the development roadmap?

Another Masternode solution...   

I'm buying a NAS array for my home (solar powered) that I will be leasing out over Sia... lets see how much cash I can make from it this year.  Maybe I will expand up to my own little data center as part of Sia cloud storage network.

nice work on sia, but when will the next GUI wallet be released?  Also when is the desktop integration like dropbox coming out?

It would be nice if the FIM wallet was a bit more streamlined (it's kind of clunky and slow) and easy to use... also would be good to stop brandishing the silly mofowallet name.

How to siafund holders import their siafund and start collect fees?

Why do you think that?

It's easy to find devs

FIM has something different about it than other projects, progress and FIM use growing slow, but steady.
CCEDK is not a bad exchange for FIM, pretty good.  Things appear to be moving forward.

That is just under 1/2 burned back to genesis account?  Where's the rest?

Where can we see proof of this happening?  Please show us the address they are being burned to.

If someone launched an MMNXT pass-thru asset (to help get some money regularly flowing into FIM), how many users here would be interested?

Any dividends been paid yet?

You will need to make it easy, like "select from a list of countries you permit your data to be stored in".  Users can't be bothered sifting through lists of IP addresses.


The law is the law and companies are required to follow it, whether or not it makes sense technically.  That's just an unpleasant part of the cloud storage market and Sia must allow companies to comply with the law if it's to be successful in entering this market at all.

Thanks for the good answer. What kind of tx volume would equate for 10,000 BTC per day on storage?  Currently how many tx can fit in a Sia block and what is the block time?


Please provide a reference for this.


great.

I do have one major concern regarding the uptake of Sia by businesses.  Many countries have data protection laws that mandate that users personal information may not leave the country.  Sia won't be used by any serious businesses unless it can comply with these laws.  How do you plan to deal with this?

Just in case anyone wants to verify, Bitcoin is currently getting ~16.8 BTC tx fees per day https://blockchain.info/stats

For the sake of comparison, we cannot use the transaction volume (amount of money moved) nor the Bitcoins mined.

It's only the tx fees that siafund holders collect.

I would really appreciate some clarification from the Sia developers on what kind of tx volumes they expect.  Also what kind of fees are there?

No.  That is trade volume (amount of BTC changing hands) not the amount of transaction fees collected by miners.

To calculate ROI you need to look at the amount of TX fees collected instead.


Really? How many tx can fit in a Siacoin block and how many blocks per day?  I think you'll find it's not enough to get anywhere near "high volume".

Everybody?

Sia seems to have an astronomically high block reward that continuously inflates the siacoin supply forever.
With an indefinite 30,000 siacoin block reward, how can siafund holders capture any value from their measly 0.000039% from each storage contract?

This doesn't seem "damn good"

Since the NXT AE investors get access to 10% of all 10,000 siafunds, then all the NXT siafund holders combined will get only .39% of the tx fees for storage contracts.

This doesn't seem "damn good" either.

Let's run a quick calculation based on Bitcoin transaction volumes.

Per day (well today) Bitcoin tx fees amount to about 17 BTC.  a meager 0.12 BTC per block

Assuming Sia will have as much transaction volume as Bitcoin (which it won't), then traders on the NXT AE paying $1,000 per siafund could earn at best 0.000039% x 12 BTC = 0.0000468 BTC/day = $0.010998/day?  That would be ROI in about 249 years!  

Even with the full 3.9% Nebulous would only earn 0.039*12BTC/day = 0.46 BTC/day which isn't enough for a single person to live on, def not a company of 1000 employees.

I still think the idea of decentralized cloud storage is good, but I don't Sia-how-da economics of Sia works out good for anyone.

Am I missing some crucial information here?