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  Great Firewall of China
  

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  Hosting contract renewals
  

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  It's pretty close to priority number one. But it's also a difficult thing to do, at least to do efficiently. With our current erasure coding scheme, the only way to do a repair is to download the whole thing and then begin uploading it again. But Luke is now working full time on renter stuff, we should have a lot more features by Christmas.

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  Geographical distribution of Sia hosts
  

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  Ok, I'm sold. Registered some .tech domains :-)

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  Inputs and outputs to transactions
  

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  A transaction is composed of inputs and outputs. The inputs fund the transaction, and the outputs decide who gets funding (or outputs can fund a file contract).

  When you fund a transaction, that money is outgoing from the wallet. That's why the transaction inputs correspond to outgoing money, and the transaction outputs correspond to incoming money. It's a matter of looking at things in terms of the transaction instead of in terms of the wallet.

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  A new blockless crypto - IOTA with Tangle mechanism
  

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  In Iota they implemented the Bitcoin Duplex Micropayment Channel system which is similar to the Lightning Micropayment Channel which Sia planed to implement in the future. - http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/716b955c130e6c703fac336ea17b1670/duplex-micropayment-channels.pdf

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  What happens when a file is deleted?
  

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  Locally, all you are keeping is a .sia file. When you delete the file locally, you're just removing the '.sia' file from your renter database. If you've got another copy of the '.sia' file somewhere else, you can use that to share the file or re-import it into your renter database.

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  How to mine SIA Coins?
  

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  The GUI was having issues because 'siad' was unable to connect to the updating server (for the record, that's a bug. The GUI should work even if the daemon isn't able to connect to our update server). If you are planning on using Sia for mining though, I recommend getting acquainted with 'siac' and using the command line. The gui is much less stable than the command line tools.