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  Anonymity on the Sia network
  

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  If Sia started charging coins for bandwidth/throughput (which I think is in your plans), you could even have the first(?) onion network with strict blockchain-based accounting!

  One day we may go there. But the implementation overhead of onion routing is high, the expertise requirement is high, and the amount of time it would take to get working is probably 6-9 months. That would be following 1-3 months of raw research to figure out the best way to go about it and to educate ourselves such that we don't make any dumb mistakes. And even then most experts would probably tell people to stay away from the newbie platform (because it's got less review, etc.)

  So... one day we will probably chase that. But not in the near future. There are a lot of privacy features I hope we eventually have. (including things like coinjoin)

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  Mining Pools?
  

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  (note: joash's mining pool is a decentralized mining pool, is fancier than the one I described above, but would also be much better for the ecosystem. Also, it's got a lot of the implementation finished already)

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  How can I help the Sia project?
  

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  @LjL Thanks. I added a weblink to the IRC channel.

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  Making Bank
  

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  Amazon'z Glacier pricing is about $7 TB/mo.

  Sia does not compete with Glacier, Sia competes with Amazon S3. So the competition point is actually >$25/Mo. Meaning hosts can charge as much as $15 / TB / Mo (at 1.5 redundancy) and still be competitive (in the long run).

  So, it stands to reason that the network's capacity would continue to grow as long as the storage is utilized.

  Yes, I believe the number one reason we aren't seeing more hosts is that there's no utilization. And the number one reason we aren't seeing utilization is because the software isn't ready yet to handle massive volumes of files. But it will be soon :)

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  Bit-torrent vs. Sia (and blockchain based filesharing in general)
  

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  Yes, that too. Now my intention is not to play down the importance of a strong community. But in the long run the community can take you only so far and that is somehow made visible with the situation of Nxt imo. Superior technology with a good community is in the shadow of inferior but heavily marketed cryptos. So hard core coordinated marketing does have it's place and might even be imperative at some point.

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  Why do we need to mine?
  

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  Indeed, that was a large portion of the original idea behind making siacoin inflationary. We want people to use siacoin for storage, not for hoarding or speculating. And, speculating can even destabilize the currency (as we're seeing on Poloniex today). It's not really good for the network to have the price flailing around a lot.

  Price flailing is unavoidable while we're in the early phases of growth, but the permanently inflationary aspect of Sia should help eliminate some of the speculation and should encourage using the coin for it's primary purpose - buying storage.

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  Upload large size of files
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  Ah, I realize I missed the original question of the post. Given the number of hosts who are offering 250GB or more of storage, I would guess that the price would increase fairly noticeably if you were to upload 1TB of data today. I'm also guessing that if you moved over 100GB at a time, the price would not increase significantly because people would add more storage to take advantage of the financial opportunity.

  I'm more or less making up a number, but off the top of my head it seems reasonable to grow the demand portion of the network by 5-10% per week without dramatically affecting the price. And, even if you do grow the network faster than that, the price should only bump temporarily.

  I will advise that the current renting software seems to be buggy enough that I would discourage uploading 1TB of data until we've got the next iteration out. I'm guessing most of your coins would be drained into file contracts that were never utilized. You would get the coins back, but only after 12 weeks. It pains me to ask you to wait, but I do think that's the smartest move. I don't think the software is ready yet.

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  Sia bandwidth usage
  

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  Is there a file size limit? Im currently offering up about 5 TB, and its really not a space issue, just wanting to learn more about it. I think the project in general is a great idea.

  There is no filesize limit, and currently Sia actually works much better with large files than it does with small files. The difference should be eliminated once we finish the file batching code.

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  Adding Siacoin to Asian exchanges
  

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  More exchanges is always a good idea. They generally seem hard to approach though. The voting system on some (lousy) exchanges seems totally rigged, or worse simply a way for exchanges to collect voting fees. Is there a Chinese exchange similar to Poloniex, that lists a large number of altcoins?

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  Recommended Price?
  

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  You don't need to reannounce for the price changes to get received by the network. It may take a few hours though for everyone to see the changes.

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  file retrieval
  

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  'siad' will run from whatever folder you run the executable. If you run 'siad' from the home folder, it'll create a directory structure in the home folder. If you run it from your 1TB external, it'll create the directory structure from there. You can point 'siad' to a different directory with the -d or --sia-directory flag.

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  展望Sia (Chinese Translation of David's article - the Dream of Sia)
  

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  @in-cred-u-lous said:

  Do you know if Sia works from mainland China? Colleagues of mine who have traveled to China have complained that Dropbox, for instance, does not work there.

  Sorry I missed this question. I don't know. I am located in USA. But I will try to find out.

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  different role of sia, sia UI and sia miner
  

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  i am reviewing the user docs and readme of sia and sia UI

  I try to make binaries/plugins for an easy to use Nas software
  (this would be a webbased frontend for siac and siad)

  to my understanding sia-UI binaries includes sia-UI and sia-daemons out of the box.
  and then frontend sia-Ui and backend sia are in separated repositories.

  there are instructions to build sia-UI
  (when you make npm start then it seems it lacks sia)

  but i do not see the ones for sia

  https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-UI/issues/189

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  Solved Translation problems
  

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  The plan to implement Sia as a two-way peg has been dropped.
  We'll be releasing an updated whitepaper shortly.

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  Syncing the renter between computers
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  Excuse me but... what's the point? Syncthing basically does what you describe (let several device "subscribe to each other" and receive broadcasts that files are new/changed), except without any pesky centralized service, but in an almost fully peer-to-peer fashion (there is a central "discovery" service, I'd rather a DHT but they don't have that for now).
  It is, of course, open source and everything, so I'm not sure why I would reinvent the wheel.

  The thing above and beyond this that I would like to eventually see is being able to connect to Sia (without any centralized service) and access my files by simply using a passphrase, which could generate some kind of key on the fly.

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  Mining of crypto-currencies on P2pool
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  So, does this bear on Sia in any way? Are there plans to add Siacoin mining on P2pool?

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  Bash script to backup content on remote server
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  ever changing wallet address ... is this normal?
  

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  :< we'll have to figure out why people keep getting stuck at 22780, it's definitely not an isolated incident.

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  Pool mining
  

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  @in-cred-u-lous said:

  Could you elaborate? By repair you mean that one or more of the original hosts are offline or no longer have the file? So, in that case if there is a local copy the file will be repaired? What happens if the file cannot be repaired? If it can still be retrieved from remaining hosts, is it renewed? If repair is attempted, and file does not exist locally, then what happens? Would be nice with a small flow diagram that outlines the intended, and currently implemented actions, that are taken at each juncture in the renewal/repair process.

  By repair you mean that one or more of the original hosts are offline or no longer have the file?

  Yeah, 'repair' happens when a host is no longer online and the redundancy of the file has fallen below some threshold. New hosts will be chosen and the file will be restored to full redundancy.

  What happens if the file cannot be repaired? If it can still be retrieved from remaining hosts, is it renewed?

  The file will be continued to be renewed as long as there's a minimum amount of redundancy. We'll probably implement it (in 050) so that if redundancy falls below some threshold the client will re-download the file and do proper remote repairs. Not fully sure yet.

  Would be nice with a small flow diagram

  Hopefully not needed. Ideally the file will repair itself under all circumstances. It'll do local repairs at some low threshold and remote repairs at a much higher threshold. You will run into problems if you don't run Sia often enough though, as Sia can't do any of the renewing or repairing if it isn't running. Right now you'd want to run it at least once a week, as the software matures we're hoping to get that out to 6 weeks or maybe even 12 months.