[ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage

[esprit577]

What market should you use to buy Siacoins from BTC or ETH ?

Bittrex

What coin would be good to use BTC or ETH ? BTC has a higher volume ?

btc is the best. it got high volume. and use bittrex

You can go to bittrex or poloniex,BTC is more active than ETH, so you can use btc buy it directly.

[0verseer]

What market should you use to buy Siacoins from BTC or ETH ?

I thinks ETH would be safer cause BTC is kinda round right now.

[huoxuanjyphl591]

Does the project cooperated with some well known enterprises? the storage market is a hot market, but there are already many big whales in it, so what is the market plan?

[MrSunshine]

Does the project cooperated with some well known enterprises? the storage market is a hot market, but there are already many big whales in it, so what is the market plan?

The plan is to Undercut the whales prices by 90%

[Hakkane]

Does the project cooperated with some well known enterprises? the storage market is a hot market, but there are already many big whales in it, so what is the market plan?

Two weeks ago an arrangement was made with the RNDR so they'll use the Sia storage network for storing their rendering projects of their project. Aside that, the team is right now focused now on increasing the reliability and scalability of the project, so I don't think it is the moment for marketing. I guess that will come next year.

Has Sia still been developed recent months? Have you ever use Sia services i  real life? thank you all.

This question has been answered 2 or 3 times in the last 2 pages of this thread, please next time check the last pages before posting. It is actively being developed, this is a report of the very last week's progress:

<<Development update for week of November 5, 2017
The Sia team has contributed to 6 repositories since Sunday Nov. 5th.  Most of the heavy development work was focused around the new writeaheadlog and pages repos.  Chris led that effort with over 4,000 lines of new code committed and merged.  Keep up the good work Chris!

Luke has made excellent progress integrating the new writeaheadlog and pagemanager (pages repo) into the Sia codebase.  Development is ongoing and must be completed before 1.3.1RC2 is released.

David spoke over the weekend at ScalingBitcoin 2017, you can view his talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8352&v=3pd6xHjLbhs

Luke, David, and Ava continue to make incredible progress in the backlog of Pull Requests and Issues.  Across the 6 repos updated this week 9 PRs have been merged, 15 issues closed and many more labeled, reviewed, and commented on.  This week also marked the first full week the Sia team had an on-call person who was available via Discord for community questions, code reviews, and general Sia discussion.  Thanks to mtlynch for the on-call suggestion!>>

Aside that, the service has been working for 2 years and currently the storage network consists on 3.3 Petabytes of available storage across more than 850 hosts. It holds 105TB of data. This is the growth of the file contracts in the last 6 months:



If you need more figures about Sia, check https://siastats.info

[jmxcursi]

I added Siacoin to the Cheddur app (https://www.cheddur.com/) to allow new users to learn about Siacoin and join the community. Cheddur allows you to link wallets, exchanges, and other services that support SC so that new users can easily get started. You can also review the project and post your SC addresses on your profile to receive tips / payments / donations in SC from other users

Can others from the community please review the profile for quality and help me add supported services? The more active the Siacoin profile is (via user reviews and addresses), the higher it ranks in search results and the more likely newcomers are to discover the Siacoin project!

Screenshots:

https://i.imgur.com/37WCayr.png

https://i.imgur.com/2Sn2T9p.png

https://i.imgur.com/zEsjrY3.png

[Lionel]

Does the project cooperated with some well known enterprises? the storage market is a hot market, but there are already many big whales in it, so what is the market plan?

The plan is to Undercut the whales prices by 90%

Would be great.

For now i am only skeptical about one aspect: storage price per Terabyte may be lower  than GDrive/Onedrive/etc. by 90% , ... but what about bandwidth price?
I have  briefly read that a Sia renter must pay bandwith as well, while S3,GDrive etc. don't make you pay for it , right ?

Or do they have "practical" limits they don't declare but are actual.
I.E. They promise you unlimited traffic but in practice if you overcome a certain limit like 1TB/month then they will cap your transfer speed to 50Kbps for example.
We should define these variables to make a proper comparison

[juniorz]

Huge buy wall on sc,

[coinhunter_mt2]

Has the coin really been under-developed? Have you ever used its services in real life? Thanks all.

[Hakkane]

Has the coin really been under-developed? Have you ever used its services in real life? Thanks all.

Where have you read that? A lot of people is coming here with the exact same two questions. I am wondering if maybe someone is spreading FUD elsewhere about Sia not being developed anymore or not being functional...

Scroll up 5 posts to my previous post and you'll find answers. Sia is indeed very actively developed, you can check last week's report in that previous post or the GitHub. Currently the Sia network consists on 3.4 petabytes of storage distributed among 850+ hosts, of which 105TB are currently in use https://www.siastats.info/hosts_network.html . I am personally storing almost 1TB of files on Sia. There is a scoreboard where users can voluntarily submit their logs to promote "a competition" to be the top uploader: https://rankings.sia.tech/index.html so as you can see real users, real people, are using the Sia storage.

For now i am only skeptical about one aspect: storage price per Terabyte may be lower  than GDrive/Onedrive/etc. by 90% , ... but what about bandwidth price?
I have  briefly read that a Sia renter must pay bandwith as well, while S3,GDrive etc. don't make you pay for it , right ?

Or do they have "practical" limits they don't declare but are actual.
I.E. They promise you unlimited traffic but in practice if you overcome a certain limit like 1TB/month then they will cap your transfer speed to 50Kbps for example.
We should define these variables to make a proper comparison

Oh, no... Amazon S3 indeed charges for downloading data: depending on the mirror, between $10-$20/Tb https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ Compare this with what Sia costs: 13 cents per TB for uploads and 10 cents per TB for downloads: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ This is 100x less currently

Final costumer products might have apparently "free download" but in the end as you say there are caps. Enterprise clients don't have access to free plans and pay outrageous bandwidth costs on any traditional storage solution

[Lionel]

For now i am only skeptical about one aspect: storage price per Terabyte may be lower  than GDrive/Onedrive/etc. by 90% , ... but what about bandwidth price?
I have  briefly read that a Sia renter must pay bandwith as well, while S3,GDrive etc. don't make you pay for it , right ?

Or do they have "practical" limits they don't declare but are actual.
I.E. They promise you unlimited traffic but in practice if you overcome a certain limit like 1TB/month then they will cap your transfer speed to 50Kbps for example.
We should define these variables to make a proper comparison

Oh, no... Amazon S3 indeed charges for downloading data: depending on the mirror, between $10-$20/Tb https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ Compare this with what Sia costs: 13 cents per TB for uploads and 10 cents per TB for downloads: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ This is 100x less currently

Final costumer products might have apparently "free download" but in the end as you say there are caps. Enterprise clients don't have access to free plans and pay outrageous bandwidth costs on any traditional storage solution

You're right.
For example Google puts limits without stating it anywhere.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20897335/google-drive-hosting-downloading-limit



Dropbox Pro/Business limit: 200GB/day
http://classroom.synonym.com/dropbox-limit-bandwidth-19850.html

Onedrive: don't know

[jtalk]

There is a reason why people are keep repeating same question related to development because they want to guess the time to buy. This is fact vast majority is here to make money to guess rise times based on announcements to make some quick money than tech. Blockchain usage is booming Sia will see more clients coming here in future.

[MR,bon]

do not believe if the siacoin will update, we monitor the charts in all markets all down, whether we are from fans of siacoin trust it, of course not.

[narrrf]

we will not believe the news before siacoin rises like June and july ago

What to believe?

Take a look at a chart of Microsoft in the first 5 years ... dumb people everywhere

SIA is one of the greatest projects on Altmarket

Be happy to buy so cheap these days in 2017

Take a look 2019 ... Then u will believe

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg24369777#msg24369777

This post says all aboute the companys use these days ...

ALL OF THE SCAMMERS HERE ... TAKE A LOOK AT THE MISCROSOFT CHART FROM BEGINNING ALL COMPANYS HAVE SUCH SWINGS

http://www.finanzen.at/chart/Microsoft

[tiso]

Has Sia still been developed recent months? Have you ever use Sia services i  real life? thank you all.

Do not know about development, however i use sia storage myself. It works. Faster and cheaper than a paid cloud backup i had (carbonite) in restoring backups, without the restrictions.

One of few cryptos you can actually use in real life. Now, not in 10 years.

Problem is it needs much time for 1st sync. Maybe that is what prevents it from be mainstream. It seems is the price you have to pay for more privacy/security.

I think they should also improve the UI a bit, making buttons for some actions like managing your addresses / changing path for blockchain file, so not need to use terminal!

Just my 2.... sia coins.

[Jree247]

Has Sia still been developed recent months? Have you ever use Sia services i  real life? thank you all.

Do not know about development, however i use sia storage myself. It works. Faster and cheaper than a paid cloud backup i had (carbonite) in restoring backups, without the restrictions.

One of few cryptos you can actually use in real life. Now, not in 10 years.

Problem is it needs much time for 1st sync. Maybe that is what prevents it from be mainstream. It seems is the price you have to pay for more privacy/security.

I think they should also improve the UI a bit, making buttons for some actions like managing your addresses / changing path for blockchain file, so not need to use terminal!

Just my 2.... sia coins.

That’s really good to know. Thanks.

[MR,bon]

a fool who hears uncertain news. let alone the news about the siacoin that never existed truth

[bitmagic1984]

any hope on this coin ? holding for long term and no profit.

[mycotoxin]

Has Sia still been developed recent months? Have you ever use Sia services i  real life? thank you all.

Do not know about development, however i use sia storage myself. It works. Faster and cheaper than a paid cloud backup i had (carbonite) in restoring backups, without the restrictions.

One of few cryptos you can actually use in real life. Now, not in 10 years.

Problem is it needs much time for 1st sync. Maybe that is what prevents it from be mainstream. It seems is the price you have to pay for more privacy/security.

I think they should also improve the UI a bit, making buttons for some actions like managing your addresses / changing path for blockchain file, so not need to use terminal!

Just my 2.... sia coins.

Awesome to hear, im thinking of using SIA myself to backup data  -  whats the delay with  the first sync is it bandwidth related ?

[crypto_jedi]

For those who buy a sia asic, do you regret since they plan to make the degred asic too?
As i see if they only sold 200 degred asic, it will give a very fucki** good ROI