[ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage

[bct_ail]

Can anybody tell me, why the block explorer shows another Wallet amount than my wallet has?
I have transferred SC from polo to my wallet. I have received 9 SC in my wallet and that is correct. Block explorer (https://explorer.siahub.info/) show me an amount of 4,736.12 SC in my wallet. Look very nice though, but that is wrong, unfortunately

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[CryptoWaffle]

How can I import first gen wallet into the latest release? I remember hearing there were problems sometimes. I don't have a seed, just a key file.

If you have a .siakey file to load, the method is going either to the Terminal and typing the command "siac wallet load siag <path>" replacing path with the path of your key

Can anyone report what the payout is for 1TB rented out for 1 month?

Sia is a competitive marketplace, so you decide your own pricing, but of course you will want to stay competitive to get more file contracts for your host. The Sia client of renters will assign you an score according to many factors, including your pricing (also the age of your host or how much remaining storage you have) and will pick up only the best scored hosts.

As a suggestion, you can check this table "Top 100 hosts average settings" to get an idea of what competitive hosts are doing: https://www.siastats.info/hosts_network.html . To answer your question, they are asking right now for 50SC/TB/month on average

less than USD$4.00 a month for 1TB ? Why would anyone do this ?

Are you seriously asking that? I don't know... maybe because you can ROI 4TB disks in 5-6 months?    The payout is right now very high in FIAT because after the recent pump in coin price the hosts are still adjusting the prices. Most probably the prices will stabilize in $2/TB or bellow. Still profitable: ROI in about 2 years looks bad, but NAS-grade disks are prepared to last 5 or more years and unlike mining in hosting there is no difficulty factor reducing your gains over time. So it can be a niche business. This, of course, if you fill your disks, because right now usage of the network is still growing.

Not interesting at all, not sure why anyone would think otherwise. You need a computer running 24/24 + bandwidth + electricity + time configuring it + maintenance (tons of reasons why yo need to look after it).
I wouldnt do it for twice that price.

The likely hosters will be organizations that can scale large storage bays, not your average kid in their basement.

thank you - was going to reply same. Sia newcomers need to dd research before not seeing facts ; lost waffle

said the clueless kid... Even for a large organization there is no money in this, wake up. Oh and btw, this is what I do for a living and people are paying me very well so I obviously know what I am talking about.

[JerryStt]

How can I import first gen wallet into the latest release? I remember hearing there were problems sometimes. I don't have a seed, just a key file.

If you have a .siakey file to load, the method is going either to the Terminal and typing the command "siac wallet load siag <path>" replacing path with the path of your key

Can anyone report what the payout is for 1TB rented out for 1 month?

Sia is a competitive marketplace, so you decide your own pricing, but of course you will want to stay competitive to get more file contracts for your host. The Sia client of renters will assign you an score according to many factors, including your pricing (also the age of your host or how much remaining storage you have) and will pick up only the best scored hosts.

As a suggestion, you can check this table "Top 100 hosts average settings" to get an idea of what competitive hosts are doing: https://www.siastats.info/hosts_network.html . To answer your question, they are asking right now for 50SC/TB/month on average

less than USD$4.00 a month for 1TB ? Why would anyone do this ?

Are you seriously asking that? I don't know... maybe because you can ROI 4TB disks in 5-6 months?    The payout is right now very high in FIAT because after the recent pump in coin price the hosts are still adjusting the prices. Most probably the prices will stabilize in $2/TB or bellow. Still profitable: ROI in about 2 years looks bad, but NAS-grade disks are prepared to last 5 or more years and unlike mining in hosting there is no difficulty factor reducing your gains over time. So it can be a niche business. This, of course, if you fill your disks, because right now usage of the network is still growing.

Not interesting at all, not sure why anyone would think otherwise. You need a computer running 24/24 + bandwidth + electricity + time configuring it + maintenance (tons of reasons why yo need to look after it).
I wouldnt do it for twice that price.

The likely hosters will be organizations that can scale large storage bays, not your average kid in their basement.

thank you - was going to reply same. Sia newcomers need to dd research before not seeing facts ; lost waffle

said the clueless kid... Even for a large organization there is no money in this, wake up. Oh and btw, this is what I do for a living and people are paying me very well so I obviously know what I am talking about.

said the buffoon asking all the foolish questions then making idiotic statements lolol gtfo outta here pleb boy.

[yeyz600]

We are always looking for more members to Join our Community! Get involved with Sia! We're giving away Free Siacoin's every month just for being Active. Come Join us at https://www.siacoin.exchange

Is it true that SIA coins can be obtained free of charge every month? I don't seem to be able to make a link to your URL link. Why is that?

[big_daddy]

aand we are again temporarily disabled on Poloniex exchange
just hodl, do not sell them for pennies ;-)

[thin]

aand we are again temporarily disabled on Poloniex exchange
just hodl, do not sell them for pennies ;-)

so it is down again on all 3 exchanges, which is not a good sign. Any explanation from dev team?

[yonton]

I tried to send to polo a few days ago, my coins are lost. I won't be back after this experience ;(

[AlteregoX]

aand we are again temporarily disabled on Poloniex exchange
just hodl, do not sell them for pennies ;-)

What's the correlation here?

Maybe the price is up because people can't sell

[ricsant]

I'm thinking about amazon, google or microsoft buying siacoin...

Is it posible?

[thin]

I tried to send to polo a few days ago, my coins are lost. I won't be back after this experience ;(

not necessary. After wallet out of maintenance, coins might be added to your balance

[pydev7]

https://twitter.com/SiaTechHQ/status/952957008994623489

[bribed]

We are always looking for more members to Join our Community! Get involved with Sia! We're giving away Free Siacoin's every month just for being Active. Come Join us at https://www.siacoin.exchange

Is it true that SIA coins can be obtained free of charge every month? I don't seem to be able to make a link to your URL link. Why is that?

Really? I didnt know that there was a continous bounty program going on.

Kind of a crazy price ride that SIA had been experiencing the last week. Some people realized their profits thats obvious.

[Skorpo]

Friends, go join all at telegram chat  sia coin - https://t.me/sia_coin

[MaryAngela_Fantocci]

Could someone advise please where SIA listing now?
And can't find the roadmap with the terms.. thanks

[thin]

Could someone advise please where SIA listing now?

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/siacoin/#markets , list is pretty long

[Brookss]

I'm thinking about amazon, google or microsoft buying siacoin...

Is it posible?

yes of course. It is a great chance for them to expand their territory and gain a new experience 

[big_daddy]

aand we are again temporarily disabled on Poloniex exchange
just hodl, do not sell them for pennies ;-)

What's the correlation here?

Maybe the price is up because people can't sell

well, some traders are in panic because the wallet is temporarily disabled and are selling SC for pennies, this is why the price is dropping
but, now for me is a very good time to buy more SC, because when all the Obelisks from the first batch will start running the value of SC will skyrocket

Just Hodl 

[ricsant]

I'm thinking about amazon, google or microsoft buying siacoin...

Is it posible?

yes of course. It is a great chance for them to expand their territory and gain a new experience 

and after that siacoin going to the moon lol...

[itsSiaTime]

i think today sia will cross 500 satoshi mark ...

[Rigermortum]

aand we are again temporarily disabled on Poloniex exchange
just hodl, do not sell them for pennies ;-)

What's the correlation here?

Maybe the price is up because people can't sell

well, some traders are in panic because the wallet is temporarily disabled and are selling SC for pennies, this is why the price is dropping
but, now for me is a very good time to buy more SC, because when all the Obelisks from the first batch will start running the value of SC will skyrocket

Just Hodl 

Daft question, but wont pumping more coins onto the market dilute thier value?

I researched some of their competitors and was shocked when I saw the value of Filecoin, and went to have a look at their product.. and wait, oh, they dont actually have one yet!  WTF?

I love the SC project and have bought into them, and also planning to give up 1tb of disk space into the project and use the service myself. 

Reading through the Dec update, it looks like 2018 is going to be a big year, with some focus around marketing, which should certainly help to push SC to the stars!