Topic: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - page 364. (Read 1382228 times)

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you could configure your firewall to be open on port 9982 only to known IPs (i.e. those you want to support). That way, no one else could upload to your host.

This does seem rather pointless though, since data that is uploaded is currently made 6x redundant on the Sia network. Also, files are split in pieces and distributed across hosts. This is all to ensure that even if a significant number of hosts go down data is still safe

Meaning, your preferred partner still have to upload to multiple other hosts besides yours. In fact, your host may not even be selected by the Sia client running on your preferred partners computer as host selection is random, though weighted by published price.

I think that what you are requesting is not really compatible with the Sia protocol and if enforced would reduced the networks reliability overall.

If you wanted to support just one uploader, you would be better simply using rscync etc.

Hi, SC newbie here.  First of all getting synced was easy, well done!  
Some feature requests:
1/ I missed the notification to port forward, it vanishes after a few seconds, can you make it persistent?
2/ Looks like I have to have the wallet fully unlocked to be a farmer and pick up contracts, seems very insecure.  Can you make the wallet 'unlocked for farming only' and to fully unlock you need the passphrase again, (I have seen similar on other coins)?
3/ On the subject of security, I know you (and so do I) want a secure coin, but please add a user generated passphrase option.  I dont want my passphrases written anywhere.  Set a standard if you like, 50+ characters mix of upper/lower + numbers and special - my 'memory wallet' passphrases exceed that.
4/ I would like to have a preferred list of storage clients, say I want to support a charity with cheap storage below the SC market rate, if they give me their wallet address I can add that and support them privately, without hurting the overall market rate.
5/ Please let me run Sia from my NAS drive where I have 1.5 TB free.
6/ Creating an app for Synology boxes would probably help you with storage volumes.
7/ Please allow Sia to be minimised to the sys tray in windows.

I tend to have a lot of crazy ideas, thanks for listening and good luck!

v0.3.3.3 is the first wallet that was on the real chain. Any siacoins you made with an earlier wallet do not exist.

If you import coins into a wallet, only newly created addresses are protected by the seed (btw, it's not an HD seed, it's just a normal seed). Over time (as you upload stuff and spend money), the coins will slowly be moved over into new addresses (just by nature of how the wallet does refund addresses), but there is currently no 'sweep' button that would allow you to transfer all coins to addresses on a new seed. We'll add sweeping at some point, but probably not for a few months.

Thanks

For clarity sake can Taek confirm that if you have funds in a pre-v3 wallet and import into a v4 wallet which includes the HD Wallet ... only newly created addresses are protected by the HD seed (i.e. it does not create  a transaction to move all funds from old addresses into a new HD derived address) and any older address and thus funds will not be recoverable without the full wallet backup i.e. assuming the HD seed will restore your full balance is wrongly assumed.

OK, So what we have to save files for future versions siafunds access?

I have not moved from before client sia V4.
for fear of losing them.
How the way to a new client?

Yeah, you can actually use it for storing stuff.

Wow so nice thanks Dev, this coin is having a really nice development and for me actually the storage system is quite better than storj,  thanks for not do a pump and dump and please  the good work

We have the release candidate for the daemon ready

http://pixeldra.in/l/ebWP48#item=0

Pick your favorite OS and give it a shot. We've moved the release date for the 0.5.0 full release to Jan. 22nd.

In the current version of sia, you can use the command line. I don't think there's GUI support yet. 'siac wallet load siag [keyfile]' is the command that you want to run to load the siag address into the wallet. You'll need to restart Sia after you do the loading.

We're planning on adding a command line to the GUI at some point soon. It's tough to be certain which features to add in what order.

Not sure what do you mean ?

I recieved my siafunds in the genesis block. To pregenerated sia address.

I just downloaded the program to generate te sia address before v0.3.1 was realeased but  I haven't been using any sia wallet yet.

And Spreadcoin overall.

Add from and to which Sia versions.

Hi Taek,

could you please provide clear instructions how to import siafunds to wallet using your private key ?

I used siag and now I have the .siakey.

I'm not very tech savvy so if you could do step by step for dummies that would be great.

Cheers 

For some reason I thought there was a 'back up wallet' button in the UI, but I guess not. I'm surprised we made it this far without adding that. In the folder containing the UI, go to resources/app/Sia/wallet/wallet.json. You can copy it over.

When upgrading, it's probably okay to go from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0, but I'm not 100% sure. I remember there were some problems with 0.4.4 which is why we released later versions with a quick turnaround.

I'm currently running "Sia UI version: 0.4.6-beta   Sia version: 0.4.4" (as per the About section of my wallet)

Do I need to update to v.0.4.8 or can I just wait until v.0.5.0 is released and update direct to that from 0.4.6?

Also (another basic question I'm afraid): How do I back up the wallet?

Thanks in advance  

hey what fonts are you using ? or what are they ?

We're doing the final testing and starting to pull everything together. We're not planning on sleeping until the rc is ready, but we are expecting to need a lot of coffee.

From Taek on Slack this morning: