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Topic: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - page 357. (Read 1382228 times)

sr. member
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February 08, 2016, 01:39:14 PM
So I have a remote disk mounted on a windows machine. How do I set the client to share the space on this device only?

On Linux you would create a symbolic link from your /host folder to the mounted disk. On Windows, I think you can use the command mklink. See:
http://www.windows7home.net/how-to-create-symbolic-link-in-windows-7/
member
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February 08, 2016, 12:24:20 PM
Hello everyone,

So I have a remote disk mounted on a windows machine. How do I set the client to share the space on this device only?
legendary
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February 08, 2016, 10:29:42 AM

potential investor here  Wink

any news?

cloud storage working?
I don't think you can go wrong with getting involved with this project, or investing. I just regret not getting more coins when at 3. But that's just one side of a great concept, the coin itself. The storage system is in a class all its own.
hero member
Activity: 546
Merit: 500
February 08, 2016, 10:14:40 AM

Hello All

 I'm new to SIACOIN  and I'm installing the wallet now . i will be setting up the Storage Hosting but what price is good ? I see it is set at 10GB and i see i can
 changes it so what price is good ?
ImI
legendary
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February 08, 2016, 08:56:29 AM

thx!
newbie
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February 08, 2016, 08:51:40 AM

potential investor here  Wink

any news?

cloud storage working?

Yup it's working.
http://www.sia.tech/

You should check out the new client.
You can upload and also make some money on the side if you've got extra storage space on your hard drive.
ImI
legendary
Activity: 1946
Merit: 1019
February 08, 2016, 08:47:49 AM

potential investor here  Wink

any news?

cloud storage working?
sr. member
Activity: 326
Merit: 250
February 08, 2016, 08:36:42 AM
I bought in with 5 bitcoins at 6 sats and i hope to see it go to 60 sats atleast, that would be a nice 10x return Cheesy
member
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February 08, 2016, 07:46:15 AM
Great volume last 24 hours! Someone believes in Sia. Is sia going to be added to more exchanges?

polo is enough!

is china buying on polo? Think if China coming!
hero member
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February 08, 2016, 06:31:00 AM
Great volume last 24 hours! Someone believes in Sia. Is sia going to be added to more exchanges?

polo is enough!
full member
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February 08, 2016, 05:16:50 AM
Sia seems on up trend and I am happy to have bought at 5 sat massively.
member
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February 08, 2016, 04:16:38 AM
Great volume last 24 hours! Someone believes in Sia. Is sia going to be added to more exchanges?
newbie
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February 07, 2016, 06:42:56 PM
Is possible for siacoin to rice from 0.000035 to 0,1?

anything is possible. got some stashed away now. you never know  Kiss
legendary
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February 06, 2016, 10:54:03 AM
in-cred-u-lous

Thanks for taking the time to map some of this all out. It really gives a good perspective on the coin,  Wink
legendary
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In Cryptocoins I Trust
February 05, 2016, 11:39:09 PM
I was testing out a cold wallet and imported my key. The address shows up now in my address list, but my balance hasn't updated and is still zero. I don't see anywhere to rescan the blockchain??

Nevermind, it showed up eventually. I am not sure if it was rescanning or not, but if it was it, then it would be nice to have some sort of visual indicator that shows it is doing that.

Also, a visual indicator showing how much the transaction fee will be would be nice. Unless it is a flat fee?
legendary
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In Cryptocoins I Trust
February 05, 2016, 11:12:37 PM
I was testing out a cold wallet and imported my key. The address shows up now in my address list, but my balance hasn't updated and is still zero. I don't see anywhere to rescan the blockchain??
newbie
Activity: 33
Merit: 0
February 05, 2016, 01:20:41 PM
Is a difference in hashrate betwen Gominer and Sia GPU v1.0.5 ?  (Win7 64)

I asked the author of the Go miner (@allujuppa) on Slack, and he said:

"no, there is not, it's the same opencl code. and the differences in the rest is marginal compared to the time spent in executing the opencl kernel"
member
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February 05, 2016, 01:13:11 PM
Thanks in-cred-u-lous :-) Smiley

Nice work and nice coin i think Cool
newbie
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February 05, 2016, 12:58:46 PM
Is possible for siacoin to rice from 0.000035 to 0,1?

Lets do the numbers:

There is, as of today, exactly 10 billion (10000*10^6) Siacoins in circulation.

The current value of 1 Siacoin is 0.00000008 bitcoin, or (rougly) 0.00003088 USD.

The market cap of Sia is thus: 0.00003088 * 10 billion = 308,800 USD.

Now, the value of Siacoin would rise because of two factors:

1) Hype
2) Demand for storage on the Sia network

Hype will always be of some unknown magnitude. It could double the price of 1 Siacoin, or increase it ten or even hundred-fold. I see no way to predict how much hype this coin will eventually receive.

So, the only thing we can say something about is #2, storage demand.

The storage demand will always be limited by the actual capacity of the network, which at present is ~25 TB. If we assume a net cost of 400 SC/GB/month, the current capacity can be spent with 25,600 GB * 400 SC/mo / 6 = 1,706,667 SC/month (the 6 is the current redundancy factor) or the equivalent of $52 USD per month. That's hardly a game changer...

Thus, in order for the valuation of Siacoin to go up, based on storage demand alone, the capacity of the network first needs to grow dramatically. As it does, the redundancy required to store files will drop to below 1.5, thus increasing true available storage even more.

In the near future, I predict that the price of Siacoins will increase solely due to hype rather than true demand. Sia currently has minimum marketing and public exposure. The number of participants is therefore low (and will remain low, until PR picks up). Still, with a modest number of "investors" (say 20) with reasonable funds to invest (say, a few bitcoins each) you could soon see the price go to 20 - 30 satoshis or higher.

As the technology matures, and proves itself stable, reliable and overall useful many will naturally hedge their bets and invest whatever they can muster into Siacoins. Then, the sky is the limit...

Your question assume a 3,000 fold increase in Siacoin valuation. With the current coin supply, that entails a future marketcap of more than 900 million USD. That would place Siacoin as the number 2 cryptocurrency in terms of marketcap (after bitcoin). The premise of Sia is to tap into the resources of many smaller to medium datacenters, that have capacity they would otherwise not be able to rent out without being out-competed by major actors in the storage markets (think Amazon, Dropbox etc). It would certainly require the participation of many datacenters and individuals to rent out space to justify a 900m USD marketcap. I don't know how realistic that is (because I don't have the numbers).

I personally think that, with time and significant improvements in the technology and orders-of-magnitude growth of the network, a 1,000 valuation increase is not unrealistic. I am absolutely convinced that there will be a significant valuation increase in the course of the next 6 - 12 months.

But, a lot of things could also go wrong:
1) Sia could be beaten to the "finish line" by a competitor that takes all the glory and hype
2) the technology could be proven vulnerable to certain attacks
3) the technology could be found to not scale sufficiently well to accomodate huge amounts of storage
4) there may not be market demand

As with all things in life, nothing in certain.
hero member
Activity: 543
Merit: 501
February 05, 2016, 10:25:27 AM

Still waiting for a solution to this obvious breaking BUG

From what I can tell you need more disk space. If it's saying there's not enough storage, that means you need to free up some storage so it can do the mapping it wants. What OS are you using? Apparently it doesn't work well on Win7, though we might be able to fix that soon.
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