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  The "default file" for a wallet
  

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  You're right. This might be also a possible scenario.

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  Auto-prolongation/re-sign of file contracts?
  

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  Of Sia and Crypti.
  

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  Ethereum looking for a storage solution
  

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  The sia founders could also do a deal via siafunds I would imagine. Sia has a nicer incentive system for founders via taxation. Eth would probably prefer Sia over Storj

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  Vote for Sia on Cryptofolio
  

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  Collaboration with Crypti
  

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  Isn't Crypti referred to as "Etherum Light"? I guess Lisk is just more of the same, being the result of break-away developers who didn't agree the path Crypti was taking.

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  Sia Fund Questions
  

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  @aspect said:

  How does one go about obtaining it?

  Siafunds were distributed in a crowd-sale a while back to fund development. 10,000 Siafunds were issued in total, and about 1,000 were sold in the crowd-sale.

  You cannot buy Siafunds any longer, except from an existing Siafund holder. Only a few Siafunds are listed for sale occasionally in the Slack Trading channel or in the Siacoin Trading bitcointalk thread.

  What is the mechanism by which SC gets distributed to Sia Fund holders? Is this integrated in the protocol or done periodically?

  A 3.9% fee is paid to Siafund holders on the storage costs of each file contract.

  That fee is distributed equally among all 10,000 Siafunds.

  So, if you paid 100 SC in storage cost 3.9 Siacoins (from the 100) are distributed equally in shares of 3.9/10000 to each Siafund.

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  Sia vs. IPFS
  sia filecoin ipfs •

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  I think the best part for Sia is that Sia is a marketplace for people buy and sell storage capacity. In this marketplace, There are incentives for people to store files.

  IPFS seems just technology and it is not a marketplace. To build a marketplace, it still needs to solve how to incentivize people to store the files.

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  Getting massive number of users is the easier part
  

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  Corporate clients? Who is first? Please list of possible candidates.

  Ethereum & Microsoft
  Sia & ?
  :smiley:

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  Blockchain slow download?
  

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  which transactions are not appearing?

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  What will the price of Siacoin be year-end?
  

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  mind me asking who is the VPS you are with

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  Imagining Sia user growth
  

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  @genjitsu well said, i quite agree with you. I don't currently hold any sia right now as i was waiting to see if there would be any huge developments on the horizon and the wallet well, it just doesn't work for me. Need a better, more reliable, better documented client/wallet before i will take the plunge. But sia has plenty or room for growth. Is just the rumors of potential backdoor weakness that puts me off.

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  Free contracts
  

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  Myself, I'm most interested in setting it up among trusted nodes, so with no currency exchange occurring at all. Ala Syncthing (but with much better redundancy coding), or ala Tahoe-LAFS (but without a central gateway), basically.

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  Can one set permissions for read access with SIA?
  

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  @Taek Wait, isn't the payment channel for downloads only opened with the original renter? Does that mean that the renter will be the one paying for any downloads?

  No, the protocol is actually constructed such that anyone with a file contract payment channel to the host can pay to download a file. When you download a file in the new protocol, you download by the file's hash instead of by the file contract. But... the fact remains that you need some way to pay the host.

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  Upload incentive
  

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  I will point out, however, that if you really insist on only using "trusted" hosts of the Amazon S3 type, then there are other decentralized solutions that do not have all these peer-to-peer and blockchain mechanisms

  No I'm only interested in SIA because of the P2P aspects, and I was worried about having to use a whitelist, but I did not really realise at also contained PoW for hosts. Which makes it a lot easier for me to trust any random node, because I know I am not likely to be surrounded by spoofed ones.

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  Trust Spheres and Scalability
  

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  A new research paper on scalibility - "On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains" http://fc16.ifca.ai/bitcoin/papers/CDE+16.pdf

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  Sia accumulation in progress?
  

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  yeah probably it has some correlation to some incoming important progress announcements..

  anything new there?

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  Mining Sia 'Failed to Start Kernel: -5' using Windows sia-gpu-miner
  

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  @Taek

  My error - that was Ethereum ETH that had the GB requirement for mining.

  I'll retry with SIA.

  Just occurred to me, SIA allows for people to use their graphics card during system down times? To acquire SIA, in turn ? giving the user disk space.

  So - heh- SIA allows for this statement to be valid.

  "Hey Sheila, how come you have so much storage space?"

  "Because Ralph, while I sleep, my graphics card earns me SIA which in turn makes my hard drives happier because they do less work !"

  heh - maybe better worded...

  Who would have guessed you can get MORE disk space with your graphics card.

  Well - SURE - I joined CUDA developer group for one purpose, to USE video cards to do optimized non lossy compression in the background at one point...

  But MINING SIA ? while you sleep ? to earn SIA that you can use to TRULY improve your resources on your PC/laptop ?

  I JUST realized that typing out a few lines here.

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  Thoughts on data permanence
  

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  @Taek

  Was just thinking on my porch and I thought:

  I need to send a Thank you for an elegant reply chock full of insight and knowledge.

  In OTHER words, thanks for taking the time for a length reply.

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  Running multiple instances of Sia
  

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  ok. In a pinch, it'll be fine as long each the port numbers are different, and the folders are different.

  Long term, I think it makes sense to add the concept of 'identities' to the wallet and renter, such that one person could have multiple non-overlapping identities in each. But, that's definitely pretty far in the future (unless someone wants to volunteer their time to write the code :))