Topic: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - page 456. (Read 1382227 times)

Careful with that. All transfers have 0-confirmations. The default mining pool software will refuse to acknowledge double-spends but someone could possible re-write the software on their own machines. (this is why exchanges can't use us yet, btw). The next release will be able to report balances with X confirmations (0, 1, 6, etc.) - much safer when moving large amounts of money.

Ah ha was wondering about that side of things lol, ok well put  

and yes I am AMD 64 bit all the way..... so I understand your dilemma there. I will say that the older GPU miners do work none the less, but are glitchy to say the least.  

THX for that nice update on matters. Lots answered.

Perhaps this is a typo from David. So it only added confusion. Of course I know wallet.dat is in the resources.app.sia.wallet since the beginning.
So this post confused me as I decided to check my 0.3.3.1 and all of a sudden all new "installs" no longer had the wallet folder. So when
Taek said the above I thought 0.3.3.1 which is relatively new now put wallet.dat in the roaming which of course i couldn't find. But it was all
I think due to some weird borderline bug I was experiencing with java. A new instance of 0.3.3.1 finally created the usual wallet folder
whereas is it was not before after many attempts and fully being in sync too. Oh well.

The wallet.dat file is in the same place. Did you keep your old wallet.dat? If you haven't run siad yet, none of the folders have been created - they don't exist until you run siad. (Sia UI will start siad if siad is not already running).


Apparently some of my "optimizations" are only good for nvidia cards. My GPU is running 6x as fast. I'm sorry that yours has slowed down as a result, I haven't been able to test on amd cards and so I'm completely in the dark when I'm making changes.

My guess though is that you've got a 64bit gpu, but many of my optimizations catered to my 32bit gpu. I'm not sure how to write a program that does both, this stuff is tricky. Your best hope is convincing someone with more experience to open source an optimized miner. We've got a lot of other things we need to focus on.

We'll nonetheless continue to try making incremental improvements to the GPU.



Careful with that. All transfers have 0-confirmations. The default mining pool software will refuse to acknowledge double-spends but someone could possible re-write the software on their own machines. (this is why exchanges can't use us yet, btw). The next release will be able to report balances with X confirmations (0, 1, 6, etc.) - much safer when moving large amounts of money.


We're planning on having upnp enabled in the next release or two, masses for the most part won't need to worry about it. For some people, port forwarding doesn't seem to be sufficient. We're not sure what's up with that. Maybe your router is only forwarding ipv6?

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The current state of the wallet and network is just the beginning. Over the next 3-6 months we have a substantial number of upgrades planned.

I just don't think it works ATM 

Well for outside connections to be able to retrieve files stored on your disk I believe you almost have to have the port forwarded.  I'm using Win 7 and I now got port 9981 and 9982 open and forwarded.  I can even check and see that they are open on canyouseeme.org so idk whats wrong.

I haven't heard of anyone getting that to work right? You could test it on that link to IP port tester website, pages back or even try turn off firewall briefly to see if it opens then? I am still waiting for more guidance on that.. announcing"  I think its bugged. lol

As they develop the wallet they really need to correct that, and make it user friendly. I don't see the masses one day port forwarding to easily lol

what platform? I have the same problem on mac. port wide open.

Try forwarding both ports 9981 and 9982.

Hey I'm getting the error calling /host/announce : host address not reachable; ensure you have forwarded port 9982  error message when I try to announce some hosting.  Thing is I know port 9982 is forwarded and not blocked so anyone know the trick to get it to work?

I have never seen the wallet in the roaming folder. To my knowledge its always been in the directory folder. And as you said is its own stand alone program folder.
And I am sure you are copying the 3.3  wallet from its folder and pasting it into you new directory for 3.3.1 same location as where you copied from 3.3. location

? nothing has changed between the 2 versions that way?  

Before I do copy the backed up wallet I rename the newly created wallet (with no coins) to wallet1 and save, then drop the back up wallet in that directory folder. No folder merging or overwriting etc. of the wallets. 
 

For me this is where it's at... for you it's going to be wherever your Sia is unpacked.. under..resources>>app>>Sia>>wallet
C:\Users\XXXXXXXXXXXX\Desktop\Sia\SiaNew\win64\resources\app\Sia\wallet

I'm looking to buy sia coins at 0.08BTC/1M,  can handle large volumes, escrow please.

I'm also in favor of easier for the user, who cares if the devs never sleep  . But if the program is stable and polished like Bitcoin
I think people are more used to 2). Its a hard call imo.

Okay, so up till 0.3.3.1 we had wallet.dat in the main folder. I agree until Sia is more sophisticated with features the wallet file
is best left in the main folder because if you want to host large amounts you are going to want to run Sia from a dedicated large
drive. Anyway, I'm sure the devs know what to do with that in the long run.

So now for 0.3.3.1 where is the wallet.dat? I swear I'm not lying I had a 0.3.3.1 on one of my computers with the wallet.dat in
the normal spot. Now when I zip a new 0.3.3.1 to a new location the wallet.dat is no longer there. I have several wallet.dat with balances
backed up but they are all from 0.3.3. So now I deleted everything sia related including the roaming folder. I now unzip 0.3.3.1 and start Sia.
Wallet.dat is not in the usual spot and is neither in roaming.

Yes, Sia is completely portable. It does not create any folders in Roaming or elsewhere, only subdirectories alongside the siad program. (EDIT: Sia-UI might create a Roaming folder, but if it does it doesn't contain anything important)
I'm interested in what other people think about this though. There are two options: 1) keep everything inside one folder, or 2) spread it out into Roaming/homedir/etc. (Bitcoin takes the latter approach)

The advantage of 1) is that it's very clear where everything is on-disk. It's easy to backup your entire Sia install or move it to a new computer without having to copy your wallet.dat separately.
The advantage of 2) is that you can overwrite the wallet program without having to worry about losing your wallet.dat (and the blockchain db, which is less important but a pain to re-download). Whereas in 1) we'd have to create an install script that would copy the wallet.dat for you so that unsuspecting people don't accidentally overwrite all their money.

Basically, 1) seems harder on the programmer and 2) seems harder on the user. So personally I'm in favor of 1), but I'm interested in hearing the opinions of people who are more familiar with Bitcoin and other wallet programs.

What a day of new things with this coin lol

Well, upgraded 5 mining rigs, each with there own wallets of course. But before that I created a "bank account" of sorts on a non-mining laptop to send all the mined coins from each wallet too and can consolidate all coins into one master wallet. Then back up that single wallet daily.

Perhaps it not to safe to keep all my eggs on one basket" since we cannot encrypt a wallet yet, however its a lot easy to back up and tally up and turn off.

Plus, so in all that upgrading I had to learn how to send all coins out of mining wallets first. Then realized how simple it is to back up the wallets as needed. (once we found out where the wallets were stored lol)

ok, tried the latest GPU miner, but do not like it because its set to mine at about 50% of what old miners do? not sure how or why that is. So anyways back using one of the early released (miners) at full set speed.

As of now, on wallets 3.3.1 all are hashing (for how long I don't know lol)

Been a lot of headaches, questions and tons of trial and errors in the first 3 days but some how it is all taking shape  

This coin is the absolutely hands down, the fastest transferring coin in the world! you blink and its there  

I feel after a few years of mining the same old cookie cutter coins and BTC as well, we finally have a new technology in crypto that is cutting edge! Perhaps even to the likes of what BTC was back then   The potential in this concept is phenomenal if managed properly.

Keep up the good work devs, it is exciting to see something new at last!  

Several people have asked this and it is the exact error you get when running the new miner on the old 0.3.3.0 wallet. You probably need to update to the 0.3.3.1 wallet.

For those confused about updating versions and what not Sia is not an install. The folder you unzipped to is your install directory.

Yes That is one huge plus with this software. Basically it is a portable program, but If I am thinking right? when you run SIA wallet from a flash drive etc., it will create a UI folder in apps/roaming on the host computer.

I'm thinking we ought to leave the wallet folder where it is in the main working directory. Not reside in the roaming UI folder, if I am reading it all correctly

I'm getting the following error

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwWwNAQ57JC5ZXFyNVZTRE1rU1E/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: Hit post prematurely. I downloaded the miner from the link Taek posted but this is what I see when I run the exe.
Any help is appreciated.

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