[ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage

[cryptohunter]

My rigs  crash from time to time and can have 5 -10 mins of downtime until i notice.

If my host goes offlline for 5 -10 mins will that be a problem? maybe 1 or 2 times a week?

Does the data have to stay live 24/7 with zero downtime?

You want to aim for less than 5% downtime, which is actually quite a lot of downtime. 10 minutes once every few days is not going to hurt your usefulness as a host. Is the crashing due  to Sia, or due to other system instability? If Sia is crashing, I would like to see the outputs + logs so we can give it better stability.

Hi,

No the crashing is to do with GPU's overheating from time to time.

Perhaps it will be best if I don't use the mining rigs.

I'm interested for sure in this project. Just have to research the best way to set it up.

I'm guessing just buying a lot of 8tb external drives and hooking up to a laptop isn't going to work. The resources needed to serve say 40TB of data on command would need a few machines. Also the biggest issue for me is the small upload speed that I have. 6mb. So again people downloading would grow very impatient.

[tintumon]

Whats the final total number of SiaCoins?

[bitspill]

Whats the final total number of SiaCoins?

∞

[eastwind_ja]

Whats the final total number of SiaCoins?

∞

the same ask?

[bitspill]

Whats the final total number of SiaCoins?

∞

the same ask?

There is an "infinite" number of coins. The block reward will never reach zero.

You can check http://siapul.se/page/market for some graphs

[kennyP]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually? I'd say one of the big differences between Ethereum & NXT is VB is everywhere in public, and BCNext & Jean-Luc was/is fully cloaked. Are the Sia guys anon?

[jrpatking]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually? I'd say one of the big differences between Ethereum & NXT is VB is everywhere in public, and BCNext & Jean-Luc was/is fully cloaked. Are the Sia guys anon?

Why do you compare Eth, NXT against Sia. What's wrong with Sia? Sia is doing quite well. There is no issues with Sia so far. I don't think Sia devs need to show them in public. They can stay anonymous.

[kennyP]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually? I'd say one of the big differences between Ethereum & NXT is VB is everywhere in public, and BCNext & Jean-Luc was/is fully cloaked. Are the Sia guys anon?

Why do you compare Eth, NXT against Sia. What's wrong with Sia? Sia is doing quite well. There is no issues with Sia so far. I don't think Sia devs need to show them in public. They can stay anonymous.

I agree there is no need now, but what about after we have an alpha product that's ready for mass adoption, will somebody be spruiking sia at crypto conferences? Will sia have a front man like VB?

I'm comparing the success of ETH with VB and co. making public appearances all over the place, with NXT who basically haven't had anybody representing them in public. A quick check of coinmarketcap suggests visible people doing conference talks & panel discussions makes a big difference.

I'm not criticising sia devs, just observing the difference between NXT and Ethereum marketing. Both are great projects with innovation, like sia.

[bitspill]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually? I'd say one of the big differences between Ethereum & NXT is VB is everywhere in public, and BCNext & Jean-Luc was/is fully cloaked. Are the Sia guys anon?

The developers use their real names on Github and can be verified here http://news.rpi.edu/content/2014/05/21/rpi-commencement-2014-computer-science-degree-start-business-and-skills-make-it

[tintumon]

Whats the final total number of SiaCoins?

∞

the same ask?

There is an "infinite" number of coins. The block reward will never reach zero.

You can check http://siapul.se/page/market for some graphs

Thanks bitspill.

[bitspill]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually?

https://youtu.be/UVuUZm4l-ss?t=4h46m45s

David talked about Sia at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2016

[kennyP]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually? I'd say one of the big differences between Ethereum & NXT is VB is everywhere in public, and BCNext & Jean-Luc was/is fully cloaked. Are the Sia guys anon?

The developers use their real names on Github and can be verified here http://news.rpi.edu/content/2014/05/21/rpi-commencement-2014-computer-science-degree-start-business-and-skills-make-it

Thanks! If devs are willing to promote sia in public I think it's better. It's perfectly reasonable to stay anonymous too, but as an investment sia is worth more with public devs imo.

Bitcoin being the first gets an exemption from this (everyone is promoting bitcoin at crypto conferences), but for everyone else anon devs looks too hard, going on NXT experience. I know project Tennessee with Dave & Bas is doing good work, but neither is a developer.

[kennyP]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually?

https://youtu.be/UVuUZm4l-ss?t=4h46m45s

David talked about Sia at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2016

awesome , thanks

[Xosihc]

Are the devs planning to go on the conference circuit eventually?

https://youtu.be/UVuUZm4l-ss?t=4h46m45s

David talked about Sia at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2016

That's an awesome video on SIA by the way. I'm glad to have stumbled upon it.

[robinson5]

I think the 'Sia Wallet Encrypted Backup Seed' appears when you make a new wallet so you can copy down the seed.  Because when the wallet first opens you don't know what seed is being used for your list of addresses.  Once I make a new wallet though do all my addresses come from that seed that I was able to copy down?

If I import the siakey into my wallet are my siafunds wiped from my siakey and imported into the seed addresses? I'm worried if that's so, I won't always have my siakey to back up and if something happened with my wallet that my siafunds would be forever lost.

Thanks for the help!

Yeah, once you make a seed, all of your new addresses come from that seed. You may still have old money in the old addresses though, so you'll need to keep all of your seeds unless you send all of your money to yourself. After you import the siakey, you'll only lose the siafunds from the siakey if you move them around or claim siacoins out of them. If you are using your siafunds, they will eventually be transferred to the seed that the wallet is using.

Sorry for the poor UX in the wallet, we're going to be actively working on it at some point in the near future, but have our hands full with the host and the renter, and with improving test coverage across the project. Thanks for being patient.

Okay great thanks for all your help! And it's great you're working on the nuts and bolts before the UX

[tranzactionezlive]

Isn't it great that the developers are mining through a POOL ??

[crilleaz]

Congratulations with the update guys! https://forum.sia.tech/topic/137/v0-5-2

[4emily]

Is there a developer issued/approved 'fool proof' guide to upgrading the wallet to 0.5.2?

(I'm currently running 0.5.1.)

Thanks

[bitspill]

Is there a developer issued/approved 'fool proof' guide to upgrading the wallet to 0.5.2?

(I'm currently running 0.5.1.)

Thanks

Backup everything.
Download new version.
Drop new files over old files.

Profit.

[devlin]

Any news regarding mining pool? SIA development is important, but at some point should be a mining pool available.