Yes and Yes.  

All data is encrypted without any way around it. The host cannot get into the files and see what they are.  Redundancy is also a mandatory, once you upload data its stored 30 times over to ensure your files aren't lost.


https://forum.sia.tech/topic/108/how-sia-works


EDIT:

With that being said, I still wouldn't use SIA for storage just yet.  There are a lot of things missing from a user perspective and even after these things are added, SIA's real vision is not for regular users like us.  They want 3rd parties to use SIA's API and handle all the customers for them.

it's been 6 months.  refund us.  You are the only person that will ever make a dime off this group buy.  There is no reason to even receive the miners at this point.  Refund me, take yourself a little cut.  I don't care. This is pointless now.

I vote refund, i'm ready to be done with this.

I read through the original OP before posting, and read through it again after your comment.  You have butchered the OP and removed some of the original information.  You also have removed tabs from the google document.  Within the OP I do not see anything about how many shares were originally sold per machine.  All I see is 90 (45+45) "bonus" shares and the "new" shares.

As much as you want to doubt it, the world still runs on FIAT. And it will probably continue to run on FIAT for a looooong time.

First there was the "bonus" shares, now there are "new" shares.  How many shares are there per machine now?

Is bitwizz actually keeping up with the buyer list? I see multiple people including myself put orders in but that list on the first post hasn't changed at all.

dang it, I knew I should have waited another week before purchasing hardware elsewhere. 

that's the only thing I can think of right now.  I don't care how complicated it is to refund a bunch of people, it shouldn't take over a month.   

Sent 0.2525BTC for 3 AntMiner U1 USB sticks.  Transaction 2252969f9a7f3bd42d2dcabfc57921fd1a5f171131f2178bf22231f461e1bb25.  Sending pm with shipping address.  Thanks!

Most have sold, updated prices due to BTC fluxuation, still have 4 games available on the cheap!

and without knowing which servers the account has previously played on, there really isn't anything to go off of right?  I cant think of 1 benefit from buying someone else's account unless it was almost free.

How has nobody left bad feedback on his trust rating here yet?  Every single person that feels cheated needs to add negative feedback with notes stating they will remove it once everything has been handled accordingly.  This is literally the only real option any of you have right now to penalize steamboat for not processing refunds and/or hosted miner payouts.

if I remember correctly, buying minecraft and having your own account is less than $30 or less than 0.03BTC.  How much of a discount are you looking for?

Is the code redeemable in Origin?

I will sell you my Jalapeno 5G for $300 worth of btc.  PM if interested. (Shipping will be out of Dallas, TX area)

dang, i'm glad i requested my miners to be shipped as is once the option was available.  If I was still waiting on refunds of any kind at this point I would be livid.

I confirm my info on row 290 of the spreadsheet.  Address is correct.  My name is missing though?

Just a FYI for people having issues with fan control - I have been mining without the fans connected to the fan header, just connected to power, for a couple months with no issues.  I only have 2 miners and heat hasn't been a problem at all. So I would suggest not using the fan header if it isn't absolutely necessary as it seems to be a pain in the butt to get to work properly.

I do not have access, and have requested it from google docs.