Hello
roughly how long will it take to get my first Contracts ?
the wallet is all setup been online for 4hrs
You should expect it to take somewhere around 1 day before you start seeing your first contracts. This is primarily because there is not a ton of usage on the network right now, but that should change as we continue to improve the UX for uploading and downloading.
1. Will u add checksums for DLs on your site?
2. Can I specify which volumes/folders to share with the network?
3. The bidding/auction/contract system seems way too complex and convoluted for mainstream. Are there plans to automate this more?
4. Will Sia struggle for adoption given it is pricier (and slower?) than the commercial competition? Looking at the explorer I can see the network is underused atm.
5. I like the idea of file-sharing in Sia. Can I link a friend to a file dropbox-style? Is such a thing planned? Torrents?
6. Sia could be as valuable as a file-sharing network as it is a backup network. I looked at Sunfish and could not find a single file to download. Whats the story here? Can somebody upload something there so I see what it looks like?
https://staging.siafiles.com 7. Somebody claimed you were an Ethereum clone. I notice you do implement SC's. So is he full of shit or are you a bit copy-cat? Forgive the Q but must ask. Could you have built Sia on Ethereum? Might you still?
8. You are to be congratulated on an ingenious product.
Thx for ur thoughts.
1. Download checksums are included in the .sia you receive to download a file. All downloads are checksummed before they are put on disk.
2. Currently you must symlink to the host folder in the sia directory. Support for multiple folders is currently in development, and will be ready in the next release.
3. Yes, there are plans to do a lot of automation around the pricing scheme, while still giving power users full customizability. Features take time to develop, likely 1.0 will not have much automation yet.
4. Sia should not be pricier than the commercial competition, if we're seeing that now it's only because the redundancy is at 6x for the beta and because people are not currently competing aggressively for storage contracts. I think we will see the price come down after the next release.
5. There were originally plans to support file sharing, but we are spending all of our time improving and optimizing the core storage functions of our client right now. Sunfish sets the stage for some filesharing, but it's a proof-of-concept that is no longer being developed. If anyone feels like continuing that work or making their own file sharing platform on top of Sia, we're happy to assist you.
6. Sunfish is not currently being developed, we're focusing on the core functionality of Sia first. Until that's out of beta, we will not be working on a file sharing platform.
7. We are not an Ethereum clone, and while you could technically build Sia on top of ethereum the amount of gas you'd need is very high, and you'd have to compete for space on the Ethereum blockchain with all of the other high-gas applications (like Augur) that are being put onto the blockchain. I don't think Ethereum would be a good choice as a foundation for a platform like Sia.
8. Thanks! We have been working hard.
edit: more on price. It looks like the majority of the network is just using the default storage price. Since the price of the coin has approximately tripled since the last release, the default price is actually much higher than we had intended. Most hosts serving data above the default price at this point should not be getting very many file contracts. Despite this, my price is indicating $11 / TB / Mo, which is substantially cheaper than Amazon - less than half the price!
