[ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage

[rosygreat]

Nice project anyway

[ludbega]

This project are very strong, and continues to be. Don't forget that Sia intends to replace Bittorrent, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft OneDrive,and all backend cloud storage services. It's very big like concept. This world will be open soon.

For me we can't wait a little more. The price will rise.

[abstractsystems]

Anyone know why Cryptopia has delisted Sia? 

[Oranium80]

Anyone know when Sia will be viable for enterprise use? at least for a small company?

[MrSunshine]

Anyone know why Cryptopia has delisted Sia? 

As I recall the volume was very low for SIA on that exchange, so probably not worth all the time required to support the wallet.

[Hakkane]

Anyone know when Sia will be viable for enterprise use? at least for a small company?

It can be used already. They can buy Siacoins in a exchange and start creating file contracts. At the level of reliability, while it works for most of the users (me, personally, I have 500Gb uploaded without problems), some of them are experiencing  issues. Next update (planned for next month) should solve all those problems, as they are focused right now on improving the experience of renting. In general neither Sia or any cloud service should be used as the exclusive place to store data by any user or company, and keeping local copies is always encouraged. Sia can be a very nice solution for storing large, redundant backups

The requirement of buying Siacoins to store data will be avoided when independent developers and companies deploy services that accept FIAT and store the data in Sia doing the exchange of Siacoins behind the scenes. There are several projects about that on progress.

Anyone know why Cryptopia has delisted Sia?  

They never updated to the newest version of the software and never asked for help to the developing team, so they were struggling with dropped transactions. Besides, Cryptopia did not have any real volume: it was less than 10.000SC per day of volume in it last weeks... There are much better exchanges with higher volumes of trade, as Bittrex and Poloniex

Does anyone else also tried to withdraw Siacoins from Poloniex and the transaction is listed as completed while when he's putting Txid as a hash on http://explore.sia.tech/ it shows that there is no such a hash found in a database (so the transaction is not even on the blockchain!)? I opened a support ticket 2 months ago but didn't hear back from Poloniex yet. What I can do in such a situation? I tried to withdraw rather big amount of Siacoin so I'm getting nervous about that.

There was a huge clog of transactions on the network 2 months ago, and while devs provided tools to alleviate the problem, Poloniex was not very efficient applying them... Current withdrawals are working good, sometimes with a delay of 30 mins - 1 hour. Most of the failed transactions of two months ago were solved too. But unfortunately not all of them have been pushed again to the blockchain. So yes, I am aware of a few other cases of users in your same situation, I am sorry for you   If it gives you some hope, I have read of some users whose Txs were finally pushed successfully 2 months later.

Keep opening new tickets and insisting about the issue, they have to return you those funds or push that Tx to the network

[LordShanken]

It looks like volume of Sia goeas to the ground.. In my opinion, and after several analyzes it is the best moment for pump. 

I'm already in with nice amount Let the show begin! 

[M2anu]

It looks like volume of Sia goeas to the ground.. In my opinion, and after several analyzes it is the best moment for pump. 

I'm already in with nice amount Let the show begin! 

We all are waiting for the show

[obszoenling]

To save space on my SSD disk, I want to move the wallet and the blockchain to my external hard disc. Where is the blockchain data located and how do I change its directory? I am using Windows. Thanks in advance.

[liljsbach]

There was a huge clog of transactions on the network 2 months ago, and while devs provided tools to alleviate the problem, Poloniex was not very efficient applying them... Current withdrawals are working good, sometimes with a delay of 30 mins - 1 hour. Most of the failed transactions of two months ago were solved too. But unfortunately not all of them have been pushed again to the blockchain. So yes, I am aware of a few other cases of users in your same situation, I am sorry for you   If it gives you some hope, I have read of some users whose Txs were finally pushed successfully 2 months later.

Keep opening new tickets and insisting about the issue, they have to return you those funds or push that Tx to the network

Thanks, I opened a new ticket and will do that daily.

[Hakkane]

To save space on my SSD disk, I want to move the wallet and the blockchain to my external hard disc. Where is the blockchain data located and how do I change its directory? I am using Windows. Thanks in advance.

If you are using the last version 1.3, the blockchain is inside the installation folder (the one you uncompressed for installing Sia), so you can just move the entire installation folder somewhere else. There are also some folders stored in %Appdata% (/users/your_user/appdata/roaming/Sia-UI) but they are actually very small and should not be moved, or otherwise the client will "forget" your current wallet and even lose files if you are hosting or renting.

[obszoenling]

To save space on my SSD disk, I want to move the wallet and the blockchain to my external hard disc. Where is the blockchain data located and how do I change its directory? I am using Windows. Thanks in advance.

If you are using the last version 1.3, the blockchain is inside the installation folder (the one you uncompressed for installing Sia), so you can just move the entire installation folder somewhere else. There are also some folders stored in %Appdata% (/users/your_user/appdata/roaming/Sia-UI) but they are actually very small and should not be moved, or otherwise the client will "forget" your current wallet and even lose files if you are hosting or renting.

The blockchain is is inside %Appdata% (/users/your_user/appdata/roaming/Sia-UI). I deleted it and updated to 1.3. But it still tries to download the blockchain on my SSD dist. What can I do?

[Hakkane]

The blockchain is is inside %Appdata% (/users/your_user/appdata/roaming/Sia-UI). I deleted it and updated to 1.3. But it still tries to download the blockchain on my SSD dist. What can I do?

There is a second consensus folder located inside the installation folder. If I am not wrong, in version 1.3 the raw blocks are first downloaded to the %appdata% folder, and once they are validated they are moved to the consensus folder of the installation. Once the sync is complete, you will end up with a very small %appdata% folder.

If you want to accelerate the sync, do bootstrapping (https://siawiki.tech/daemon/bootstrapping_the_blockchain) the canonical way is downloading the file to %appdata%, but I have seen people downloading it directly to the installation folder. You could try either way

[Aaroenz0r]

anyone here known about filecoin ICO?

[hah]

It looks like volume of Sia goeas to the ground.. In my opinion, and after several analyzes it is the best moment for pump.  

I'm already in with nice amount Let the show begin!  

What goes down must go up! I really like the dev team. It will be nice when the market picks up.

[Iris Linus]

Sia is now close to dead. if there is nothing new within a few days we will go to $0

[Branko]

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

I don't know, man

[tintumon]

Sia is now close to dead. if there is nothing new within a few days we will go to $0

Sia had a tremendous growth in the past few months and some whales might have manipulated it to some pump prices.
The tech is solid and the price is 5X than it was around  4 or 5 months back. Why are you still complaining?

[trgnn]

Sia is now close to dead. if there is nothing new within a few days we will go to $0

Sia had a tremendous growth in the past few months and some whales might have manipulated it to some pump prices.
The tech is solid and the price is 5X than it was around  4 or 5 months back. Why are you still complaining?

Some people can't think about the long run. They need profits: now!

[leps]

Sia my love. Just burn half of the supply and everything will be ok