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  Who is going to build the next dropbox on top of sia?
  

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  I will definitely announce it here too once I've got something running on Sia

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  Possibly a quick guide on hosting settings in V1 user interface.
  

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  Sia Explorer
  

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  @cmbartley said in Sia Explorer:

  No response from devs for days. Time to sell off?

  Sorry that we haven't been super responsive since the explorer went down. The release is tomorrow and understandably we've got our hands full with a bunch of last-minute bug reports and polishing details. The explorer breaking just a few days before the release was unfortunate, but at this point it's been beyond our resources to fix because we're already maxed out in our TODO list.

  Most of the bugs and security issues being reported should be handled soon, we're all putting in extra hours to make sure the release goes smoothly.

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  Free storage
  

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  In addition to reasons for running hosts for free (uncertainty about price, desire to receive the first contracts, not expecting significant profits anyway...) hosts also receive fees for network bandwidth, so some operators may have decided for this to be primary source of revenue.

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  Sia Wallpapers
  

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  Awesome, looks good.

  I also made a darker version of the wallpaper with the full logo: https://pixeldra.in/u/I_-1t_. Now it blends in better with the rest of the dark background, and I also moved the layer below the grain effect, so it stands out a bit less.

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  maining pool sia coin
  

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  I know a person who have a private pool. But It's secret and I don't have access. He don't allaw strangers.
  /sorry for my bad english/

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  Question: Bought Siacoins on Poloniex...
  

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  Current version is 0.6.0 and can be considered stable. It does not have an UI, however, so you need to run Sia via the command line (which is quote easy). There has not been any wallet issues since 0.3.x. You can run the current version, transfer funds over and as long as you keep your wallet safe your funds will be there for the future too. Probably safer than keeping the funds on an exchange. That is, as safe as you make it.

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  Welcome to the new Sia Forum
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  Thanks @ffmad for setting up the forum, and then for sticking around to keep it updated. We definitely appreciate it.

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  Sia in the News
  

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  Meh, to me, it just looks like Sia is growing, got a small pump early February and in March, went into a bear, and is now slowly rising up again. People, like me, were expecting Sia to keep growing but it went down a bit for the past month. I'm not entirely sure what it means overall other than the coin is waiting for an opportune time (i.e news of a new update) for it to be pumped again and go up in value. It should also be noted that due to the ever increasing amount of new coins being generated, it's expected for the coin to not be stable until real world storage application value can be established. The stability of the coin floor market was 16 sat and the news article predicts that it will rise up to 21 sat, meaning that the overall floor value of the floor (and value of sia) is expected to rise. Though it should also be noted that with this could simply be anticipating version 0.6 release of Sia and for the price to rise as a result.

  So, yeah, I agree with the news report that says that there is possible a new floor for Sia and that the price is expected to rise very soon, which makes me hyped. Sia doesn't really appear a lot in the news (at least compared to stroj and MAIDSAFE) so it's nice to see that people are keeping an eye on Sia.

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  Bitsquare
  

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  @LjL said:

  Wait, really? I thought I had read 0.1 BTC, which would have made me testing it out of the question for the time being...

  Update: it does say 0.1 BTC in the FAQ here https://bitsquare.io/faq/#6 - where did you read otherwise?

  Manfred Karrer quoted 0.01 BTC in a thread on the Bitsquare mailing list:
  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bitsquare/nrxRdfTVFok

  Also, this is the amount quoted when you create an order in the Bitsquare app (screenshot).

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  Questions about Sia Wallet
  

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  We fully intend on making a series of 'How to X on Sia' guides after the 1.0 release in June. Now that the 0.6.0-rc client is in the wild, most everything else should be downhill.

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  Storage Proofs
  

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  Sorry for the late response here.

  Sia prevents fake storage proofs because the peers can verify for themselves that the storage proof is not valid. If the storage proof is not valid, it will not be accepted into the transaction pool, it will not be accepted into a block, and it will not be broadcast to other peers.

  They are quite lightweight to verify, a raspi would be able to verify them as quickly as it could download them.

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  Updated client?
  

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  @mecixo said:

  How to update a headless Sia?
  can i just replace the old files with the new?

  Please start a new thread when you change the topic. See this thread (scroll to bottom) for guidelines:
  http://forum.sia.tech/topic/133/how-to-backup-and-restore-the-wallet/18

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  recommended coin for money transfer
  

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  Then I would recommend Bitcoin :P

  It is the most secure, most decentralized platform out there. Other platforms may have lower fees, but that comes at a pretty steep cost as far as decentralization and security go.

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  unable to download files error "unable to download file pieces "
  

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  it have invite access to people who have participated in sale
  now invited people could upload data i believe

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  How to define "where" (disk, folder) to store files in the Sia-UI interface ?
  

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  There currently isn't a way to define where. It is stored in the \resources\app\Sia\host folder

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  Mining Sia coin upgrades and specs. Also questions concerning the liquidity of Sia.
  

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  @Mortal-Killer said:

  I'm guessing the same rigs for litecoin can be used similarly to mine for sia coin.

  Correct. Best way to mine Siacoin currently is with GPUs.

  I'm not entirely sure how to understand the emission/inflation curve chart.

  The inflation curve I linked you to shows the instantaneous annual inflation rate (i.e. it has been normalized for 12 months). It reports a percentage. For a given moment in time, the curve tells you how many more coins are being produced, relative to the current amount of coins in existence.

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  Storage Proofs
  

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  I'm guessing that it's because we switched the storage proof period from 6 weeks to 12 weeks. We're in the period where all of the 6 week storage proofs have expired but none of the 12 week storage proofs have.

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  Sia on cryptofolio
  

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  Loading sia problem
  

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  I'm faced with the exact same problem with the "1"
  I test it with three different computers and I was getting the same error.

  During the initial synchronizing and reaching the 71680 height (if I remember correctly) the program stopped to sync any more and appears a warning message and after restart the program the number 1 appears on screen.

  I think this happens to the 32bit version of program v.0.5.1, because when I tried it again in a 64bit pc using also the 64bit version v.0.5.1, didn’t appear again.