[ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage

[TraderInc]

I have this really old sia wallet from 6 months ago and It won't synchronize.

It says synchronizing but stuck at the same percentage.

What should I do ?

[TraderInc]

Okay I think the percentage is moving but its just slow 

[ju34400]

what is the future of this coin?
price divided by 4 since i bought and the wallet is an awful mess

[aoluain]

i know its hard to believe the price drop we have experienced
but it is only a $value, there is still development work taking
place and storage useage is on the increase.

It still has the same future we all got involvd with it for!!

Here is an earlier post by 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

[Warung Jambu]

unfortunately the price is still drop, the bitcoin price now reaches more than $ 8000, this will make me have to be vigilant.

[juniorz]

There was a talk on sc coinburn this evening, not sure who the source was on bitcointalk,
but if this is the true then sc will price should increase,

[meyer]

I have an 2 year old sia seed. now I wanted to log in at the actual sia wallet and I get this error: "error when calling /wallet/unlock: provided encryption key is incorrect"

I used this key before and I´m sure it worked. was there some swap or something in the last months?

THX

[raoulsergia]

The bitcoin price is killing most alts lol. We see 1 day of alt growth followed by 5 days of BTC growth, and 3 days of all RED.

In this situation its kinda hard too see alts do well till another crazy month like May/june 

Patience is the key

[Hakkane]

I have an 2 year old sia seed. now I wanted to log in at the actual sia wallet and I get this error: "error when calling /wallet/unlock: provided encryption key is incorrect"

I used this key before and I´m sure it worked. was there some swap or something in the last months?

THX

Hi. In August 2015 a network upgrade made incompatible the old wallet system based on a file, being only compatible the seed-based wallets. Your seed should be still compatible, no other upgrades has been done with the seed system to the best of my knowledge.

Check that the sequence of words of the seed is complete (do all the words make sense in English? is any character missing in the words?). If you are copy/pasting the seed check you are not adding extra spaces at the begging or the end of the sequence, no break likes in the middle.

Lastly, did you created a previous wallet in your new client and now you are trying to unlock your previous seed? If that is the case, that is not how Sia works: you can only have one wallet/seed associated with Sia, so if you created a new wallet already, Sia is expecting you to introduce the seed of that wallet, not a different seed. There are commands for nuking the current wallet of the client and load a new one, and for sweeping the funds for an old wallet into the new one, but let us know first what have you done so far for providing better help

[whyyousoserious]

so it seems like we are at the rock bottom again 50 sat . once bitcoin stable.. we are gonna go back to 150 sat. i still think its good time to buy . just hodl

[dodgrad]

 we have November 17th, in November was announced in the roadmpa a lot of improvements. Is there any information about this, or about delay?

[MR,bon]

the improvements reported in november were only political, so far the siacoin has gone too far down. there may be a revocation of the repair.

[meyer]

I have an 2 year old sia seed. now I wanted to log in at the actual sia wallet and I get this error: "error when calling /wallet/unlock: provided encryption key is incorrect"

I used this key before and I´m sure it worked. was there some swap or something in the last months?

THX

Hi. In August 2015 a network upgrade made incompatible the old wallet system based on a file, being only compatible the seed-based wallets. Your seed should be still compatible, no other upgrades has been done with the seed system to the best of my knowledge.

Check that the sequence of words of the seed is complete (do all the words make sense in English? is any character missing in the words?). If you are copy/pasting the seed check you are not adding extra spaces at the begging or the end of the sequence, no break likes in the middle.

Lastly, did you created a previous wallet in your new client and now you are trying to unlock your previous seed? If that is the case, that is not how Sia works: you can only have one wallet/seed associated with Sia, so if you created a new wallet already, Sia is expecting you to introduce the seed of that wallet, not a different seed. There are commands for nuking the current wallet of the client and load a new one, and for sweeping the funds for an old wallet into the new one, but let us know first what have you done so far for providing better help

THX for your helpful response :-)

I sounds like the last problem you mentioned coulb be the reason. I installed SIA at a new computer and wanted to import the seed maybee there was another wallet created before automatically? How to delete this?

THX

[Aquazi]

Told you to sell at 70 sats, you guys never listen.

[kawacaki]

i'm waiting for the 30 sat to get back in

[bunch]

I have this really old sia wallet from 6 months ago and It won't synchronize.

It says synchronizing but stuck at the same percentage.

What should I do ?

Have you fixed your issue? If not - try to install latest version of Sia-UI, and restore the wallet by using seed phrase. I just did this myself and it was not too hard. Can remember if I had to google for how to do it, or if it was "intuitive" from Sia-UI

[tokenZ]

i'm waiting for the 30 sat to get back in

Really? Personally, Vsync is better coin than Sia. Take a look at Vsync price, it's so ridiculous.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vsync-vsx/
Good luck with your choice.

Sure its low price. But its done nothing but drop since day 1.
Wld need much heavier research to even consider.

[Hakkane]

THX for your helpful response :-)

I sounds like the last problem you mentioned coulb be the reason. I installed SIA at a new computer and wanted to import the seed maybee there was another wallet created before automatically? How to delete this?

THX

No problem! :-)

The best way probably is going to be deleting the current wallet. Go to the Terminal tab and type "wallet init-seed --force". It will ask you for your seed, and after scanning the blockchain for some minutes (or even one hour or so) it will be done and the client will be associated with that old seed.

It is better to have the client fully sync before doing this

[meyer]

THX for your helpful response :-)

I sounds like the last problem you mentioned coulb be the reason. I installed SIA at a new computer and wanted to import the seed maybee there was another wallet created before automatically? How to delete this?

THX

No problem! :-)

The best way probably is going to be deleting the current wallet. Go to the Terminal tab and type "wallet init-seed --force". It will ask you for your seed, and after scanning the blockchain for some minutes (or even one hour or so) it will be done and the client will be associated with that old seed.

It is better to have the client fully sync before doing this

looks good it is scanning now ... thx

[HmmMAA]

i'm waiting for the 30 sat to get back in

Really? Personally, Vsync is better coin than Sia. Take a look at Vsync price, it's so ridiculous.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vsync-vsx/
Good luck with your choice.

You are comparing potatoes with oranges . The only common thing between SIA and VSYNC is that both are cryptocurrencies . So , i really don't get how did you come to the conclusion that VSYNC is better than SIA .