Sia - Siafund Redemption Deadline: June 1st, 2015 - page 4.

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Quote from: Taek on March 05, 2015, 12:15:50 AM

Quote from: msin on March 04, 2015, 05:34:44 PM

Will you plan some kind of marketing campaign?

I am not sure the best way to approach marketing. Making a post on HN and the various altcoin subreddits seems like a good place to start. I'm somewhat worried about getting too much attention too fast, though at this point I think we're ready for 100+ machines on the network. If we get more attention than that, we're in a good place anyway. I do plan on PMing and emailing everyone who has expressed interest over the past 9 months. It'd also be interesting to let the storj community know that we've appeared as a ready-to-go competitor, but I wouldn't want to be rude about it.

I'm not sure what else we would want to be doing.

Information on Sia team/company, Use-Case for Sia, Instructions, etc.. on Website is a good start and easily distributed. A new thread here with more info on launch. Giveaways is always a good way to get people using. Have a press release written up that can be distributed to Coindesk, Cointelegraph, etc.. shortly after launch.

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Quote from: Taek on March 04, 2015, 07:02:19 AM

Quote from: marek3ball-orig on March 03, 2015, 12:02:46 PM

Then it will be really useful to have all my data locally too and running some sync software which will check status of my files and in case some file was deleted from all hosts it will inform me and I re upload file from my local disk.

This is not something we'll be able to make in the next 2 months, but perhaps we can do it in the future.

I understand that everything is not so easy. This is only from my "home user" point of view. Maybe describe real usage for end user would help to understand and see what is planed.

In case I know that I must have local copy and at least receive warning when my file is not in the cloud. Then it is better.

Or you are targeting complete different usage.

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Quote from: msin on March 04, 2015, 05:34:44 PM

Will you plan some kind of marketing campaign?

I am not sure the best way to approach marketing. Making a post on HN and the various altcoin subreddits seems like a good place to start. I'm somewhat worried about getting too much attention too fast, though at this point I think we're ready for 100+ machines on the network. If we get more attention than that, we're in a good place anyway. I do plan on PMing and emailing everyone who has expressed interest over the past 9 months. It'd also be interesting to let the storj community know that we've appeared as a ready-to-go competitor, but I wouldn't want to be rude about it.

I'm not sure what else we would want to be doing.

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Will you plan some kind of marketing campaign? Obviously it's pretty dead on this thread, so would be good to get the word out prior to launch.

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Quote from: Tobo on March 03, 2015, 10:12:59 AM

What is the minimum hardware requirement to be a host/node of Sia network?

Any desktop or laptop less than 5 years old should be good enough. I don't think a RasPi is going to be enough, but anything with a decent amount of power should be enough.

Quote from: marek3ball-orig on March 03, 2015, 12:02:46 PM

Then it will be really useful to have all my data locally too and running some sync software which will check status of my files and in case some file was deleted from all hosts it will inform me and I re upload file from my local disk.

This is not something we'll be able to make in the next 2 months, but perhaps we can do it in the future.

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Quote from: Taek on March 03, 2015, 07:41:46 AM

Quote from: marek3ball-orig on March 03, 2015, 04:55:37 AM

It is clear how will look situation when I will have 100% guarantee that my uploaded file will be there one year later?

Initially we cannot promise that anything you upload will still be there in a year, especially for the early life of the network we can't be sure that the same hosts will be around for a year or more. We can however provide 'health' indications of your file and repair tools - if the 'health' of the file goes down it's pretty easy to bring it back up, but you need to click a button; it's not automatic. Eventually, I do think a 100% guarantee for 1 year will be reasonable. (but not immediately!)

Quote from: marek3ball-orig on March 03, 2015, 04:55:37 AM

And will exist situation where I will not be sure that the file will be there?

For example person will upload passwords list and lose local copy.

Files will be encrypted, with the keys stored on your disk. If you lose the keys, you won't be able to recover the file. It may be possible to have keys that are like brainwallets, so all you need to do is remember a password, but for the time being you'll have to keep the keys backed up.

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Overall, I believe that storage on Sia will be more reliable than any other solution. But until we've got at least 20 different people constantly online as hosts, I wouldn't trust file uptime at all. We won't make any guarantees, especially while the network is young.

Then it will be really useful to have all my data locally too and running some sync software which will check status of my files and in case some file was deleted from all hosts it will inform me and I re upload file from my local disk.

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What is the minimum hardware requirement to be a host/node of Sia network?

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Quote from: marek3ball-orig on March 03, 2015, 04:55:37 AM

It is clear how will look situation when I will have 100% guarantee that my uploaded file will be there one year later?

Initially we cannot promise that anything you upload will still be there in a year, especially for the early life of the network we can't be sure that the same hosts will be around for a year or more. We can however provide 'health' indications of your file and repair tools - if the 'health' of the file goes down it's pretty easy to bring it back up, but you need to click a button; it's not automatic. Eventually, I do think a 100% guarantee for 1 year will be reasonable. (but not immediately!)

Quote from: marek3ball-orig on March 03, 2015, 04:55:37 AM

And will exist situation where I will not be sure that the file will be there?

For example person will upload passwords list and lose local copy.

Files will be encrypted, with the keys stored on your disk. If you lose the keys, you won't be able to recover the file. It may be possible to have keys that are like brainwallets, so all you need to do is remember a password, but for the time being you'll have to keep the keys backed up.

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Overall, I believe that storage on Sia will be more reliable than any other solution. But until we've got at least 20 different people constantly online as hosts, I wouldn't trust file uptime at all. We won't make any guarantees, especially while the network is young.

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It is clear how will look situation when I will have 100% guarantee that my uploaded file will be there one year later?

And will exist situation where I will not be sure that the file will be there?

For example person will upload passwords list and lose local copy.

Taek

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Quote from: Cyberian Forest on March 03, 2015, 12:35:07 AM

You say that mining is real, so that means whatever Siacoins I am mining right now I will be able to use as currency when the project goes live?

No, coins right now are not real. All balances will be reset when we release the currency. I meant to say that coins will be real & permanent after the currency launch, and that the target date for the currency launch is April 10th. Sorry for the confusion.

At launch, there will be 300,000 coins per block. After about 5 years, there will be 30,000 coins per block, and all blocks after that forever will have a 30,000 coin reward.

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Just found this coin tonight and I'm deeply interested, and have been trying to read through all of the information. You say that mining is real, so that means whatever Siacoins I am mining right now I will be able to use as currency when the project goes live? Also, what is the coincap for Siacoins? Thanks, and looking forward to the new release!

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Sorry, the message boards have been slow so I haven't been checking often. Easiest way to reach me is email (it's on the github page).

We're hoping to have the next release out before March 9th. And we're hoping to launch the currency on April 10th. That's not a hard date, but it's the target we're aiming at. It won't be perfect at launch but the coins you earn from mining and hosting files (after launch) will be permanent.

Some time around launch we'll also hand out the siafunds, which I'm sure a lot of you are eager to claim. They'll start accumulating coins immediately.

*fingers crossed*

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i think it's time for a progress report

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Is there any update ?

I tried to upload a file but it still doesn't work...

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Quote from: DreamSpace on January 29, 2015, 10:39:49 AM

i tried it with Ubuntu and it looks very nice. What kind of mining process happens there or is it just simulated actually?
Uploading is not working for me, i can choose a file, but nothing happened and how can i theoretically download a file?

Mining is real, right now it just uses your CPU, more threads means more mining (up to a point, if you've got more threads than cores it'll probably slow down). Faster CPU means more mining, etc.

For uploading, right now it only works sometimes. Mine like, 10 or so blocks and then try again, and you should have better results. It can take a few minutes nonetheless. Once you've uploaded a file you should see it in the list of files, and you'll be able to download it.

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We hope that in the next two weeks or so there will be an update where the uploading and downloading always works, and sending transactions is instantaneous (well, you see 0-confirmed transactions within a few seconds instead of needing to wait for a block).
We've also got a handful of bugfixes that have been made. We'll have also added encryption.

Our next release will still not allow you to see files that other people have uploaded, but we're working on that too. (just seeing the files isn't useful when they're all encrypted - we'll need a way to upload files unencrypted and then announce to the world that the files are for everyone.)

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i tried it with Ubuntu and it looks very nice. What kind of mining process happens there or is it just simulated actually?
Uploading is not working for me, i can choose a file, but nothing happened and how can i theoretically download a file?

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Quote from: Taek on January 19, 2015, 02:43:11 AM

http://www.siacoin.com/

Got a spiffy new website, got a fun interface, got screenshots. There's a public download link too.

Let me know what you guys think.

Great website, will try out beta.

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http://www.siacoin.com/

Got a spiffy new website, got a fun interface, got screenshots. There's a public download link too.

Let me know what you guys think.

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Okay, it's done. And by that, I mean the codebase is at version 0.2.

But we're really exhausted. We'll put up the webpage tomorrow and pass out the url and get on IRC, etc.

Unfortunately, things still don't work very well. But I think this time around you get a better idea of what stuff is going to look like when we release. Things really only work well right now if you are actively mining, and stuff like uploading and downloading can be slow and not always work. Errors aren't always terribly useful, and we haven't tested it on Windows yet but it should work nonetheless.

One of the more exciting features is updates. Now we can push updates to the client and you'll get a notification on your screen asking you to upgrade to the latest version. That'll be pretty sweet.

Looking forward to making the announcement. And I'm thinking that 0.3 will be released on March 31st.

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Quote from: Taek on January 16, 2015, 06:34:52 PM

Quote from: Lordoftherigs on January 16, 2015, 03:39:23 AM

Quote from: Taek on December 23, 2014, 11:21:26 AM

The current target date for the open beta is Jan 16th. We've actually open sourced the new set of code already, you can see it on github.

Any update on this ?

Yes. Jan 17th

Tongue

In all seriousness we're pretty close to ready. We've got a nice interface this time too, thanks to our new intern Seve. We've committed to not sleeping until we're ready to go but midnight seems a bit optimistic.

Take your time

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