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  Suggestions for Sia URI click handler
  

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  How to prevent/monitor/detect data theft via .sia files?
  

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  We could encrypt and password-protect the siafile directory.

  Definitely some form of detection for theft/access of the siafiles would be nice, though I'm not sure it's possible. Any sort of state we add to track that kind of thing could be reverted by the attacker.

  I'm glad you brought this up, it hasn't really been on our radar yet. Detection might be difficult, but we can at least make it difficult to steal the files even if you have access to the machine. We'll have to think about it more, but it's not anything we can implement in the next 2 months.

  Maybe in 3-5 months though, I think this is a pretty high-priority item. I'd hate to see Sia data get stolen.

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  Better Support For Dynamic IP Hosts
  

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  @ryancstl23 The issue is that the IPs of hosts keep changing, so you'd want hosts to identify themselves with a public key on the network rather than by their IP address.

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  Folders in Sia-UI
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  Suggestion: Disable the use of GPU in Siacoin Gui interface
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  I'm guessing that it's possible, though I don't think we'd be willing to distribute a completely different set of binaries with the GPU disabled. If you are a developer and comfortable monkeying around a bit, the source code is here: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia-UI

  If you do end up making your own release process so that you can disable the GPU, please share it with us. We'd like to put it on our website.

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  Sia sync problems
  

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  Yeah, we're still having database problems in 0.4.7. We've changed all of the website links back to 0.4.6. We're investigating this next round of database issues and hope to have everything fixed soon.

  Really sorry about that, we've been plagued with database problems since switching to boltdb.

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  Duration
  

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  The average user has the time automatically converted to something more readable anyway. As we iterate on the frontend, the block counts will disappear.

  Because of the retargeting algorithm, 1 block = 10 minutes is a good assumption for the long term (anything more than about 2000 blocks), even when some weeks are much faster or slower than others. It all balances out correctly.

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  Denial-of-service attack and potential wallet theft
  

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  Yes, we plan to open up a bunch of configuration options as the network improves. Right now, we've got pretty strict limits on everything because if you start messing with the defaults you're at risk of making yourself incompatible with most hosts. For example, if you change the max duration in the host config, you'll likely exclude yourself from all renters. If you make the max price too low, you may not have enough hosts for the file upload to be reliable.

  All this will be improved with time, we definitely plan on increasing the configurability (though, perhaps in an 'advanced' menu)