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- Announcing V2 — The Final Cut 🎉 October 27, 2025Announcing V2 — The Final Cut 🎉 This update: ✅ Removes deprecated fields ✅ Fixes a difficulty adjustment bug, and ✅ Preps the network for parallel and instant syncing Do you need to take action? See below! For Token holders → For terminal app users of walletd only, you MUST upgrade to v2.11.0+ → No […]/u/SiaFoundation
- The State of Sia, September 2025, is now available! October 15, 2025September brought big progress across the Sia ecosystem — from new developer tools to exciting app releases and upcoming features. The new Grants Development Guide is live, the team shared insights from RustConf 2025, and a new grant-funded project — Luogo, a private group location-sharing app — officially launched. And if that wasn’t enough… we […]/u/SiaFoundation
- How to restore files if renterd is inaccessible October 13, 2025I'm planning on using sia for my backups. I'm running renterd on my server. How can I restore the files if my server goes down? I can only find a legacy article that doesn't seem to apply anymore: https://docs.sia.tech/legacy/renting/how-to-back-up-your-files submitted by /u/konso85 [link] [comments]/u/konso85
- Two new jobs at The Sia Foundation! October 10, 2025We're hiring for two new positions - a Developer Relations Engineer and a Developer Marketing Manager! The Developer Relations Engineer is a highly technical role that will help further bridge the gap between what we're building and our developer community. The Developer Marketing Manager will help boost the developer experience and ensure the grants program […]/u/sia-steve
- Help with syncing my sia ui wallet October 5, 2025I haven’t logged into Saia in a while, and I was trying to get in with my seed, but the sinking stops and says the sia daemon is unreachable any advice thank you submitted by /u/Grak357 [link] [comments]/u/Grak357
- The State of Sia, August 2025, is now available! September 24, 2025📢 The State of Sia, August 2025, is now available! August brought steady progress across the Sia ecosystem. From Def Con 33 to new releases for renterd and hostd, and major strides in community grant projects, the network is stronger than ever. 🚀 🌐 Network Highlights: Def Con 33 Presence: The Growth Team connected with […]/u/SiaFoundation
- What do you guys think? Should I paste my seed? September 10, 2025Had 3 suspicious helpers pop up in my DMs after requesting help with my wallet recovery and balance. If what they say is true sia needs to work on their UX. submitted by /u/THlS_GUY_FUCKS [link] [comments]/u/THlS_GUY_FUCKS
- My notes from first six months running a Sia host September 8, 2025I started running a sia storage node approximately 6 months ago, and thought I'd share my thoughts. (for reference, it's September 2025, since Sia has been around for a while). TL;DR: it's been entertaining, educational, and modestly profitable** (see the asterisk on collateral though because it's a big one). But all in all i'd say […]/u/EasyRhino75
- Your Sia Cloud: Building User-Owned Data as a Public Good | Sia Blog September 3, 2025🚀 New Blog Post! The modern cloud is seamless, omnipresent—and dominated by tech giants who treat users like products. Behind the convenience lies a system driven by profit, surveillance, and control. The Sia Foundation offers a fundamentally different vision. In this blog, we explore how Sia is building cloud infrastructure as a global public good—where […]/u/SiaFoundation
- The State of Sia, July 2025, is now available! August 21, 2025📢 The State of Sia, July 2025, is now available! July marked a huge milestone for the Sia ecosystem with the successful completion of the long-awaited v2 Hardfork on July 3rd. This upgrade unlocks a faster, more efficient decentralized storage network and sets the stage for the next wave of developer tooling and user-facing applications. […]/u/SiaFoundation
What Is Siacoin ?
SIACOIN is a decentralized cloud storage platform that is built using the blockchain technology. It hopes to change the game for the big cloud storage companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. It’s basic working principle is that whenever a user plugs in and wants to store certain files on the cloud, the file is divided into many tiny bits, then these tiny pieces are multiplied, encrypted and sent across its network to be stored over dozens of nodes.
SIACOIN aims that with its entry into the Cloud Storage industry, we will see prices for cloud storage slashed to a fraction for the user. An example being that storage on the big cloud storage providers costs $10 to store 1TB while on the SIACOIN network that will only cost $2!
Team
SIACOIN is a product of Nebulous Inc from Boston, led by David Vrick and Luke Champine
Practical Uses
SIACOIN’s only use is in the practical realm of things, being the liberalization of cloud storage. With SIACOIN, a user stands to gain many benefits to their cloud storage experience among which are:
Affordability: Prices of using cloud storage will crash with SIACOIN. This is only possible because instead of chunking up a file at a single storage facility, SIACOIN will chop it to pieces, multiply it and send the very tiny encrypted pieces of it to its miners and individual storage providers.
Privacy: With SIACOIN the user’s file are only accessible to them alone and not anyone else! Unlike the traditional cloud storage companies where your file is open and at their mercy. After being encrypted and sent on the cloud, the user is the only person that has the key to recall their file, reassemble it and decrypt it for use.
Uninterrupted Access: The fact that the file is multiplied and sent over dozens of nodes means that the user has several backups instead of just one. Downtime is extremely unlikely unless the whole network is shut down which is virtually impossible due its decentralized nature. Therefore the user has uninterrupted continuous access to their file whenever the need arises.
Mining
There are presently just over 26 Billion SIACOINs mined with a total of 48 billion expected to be the maximum cap for the cryptocurrency. SIACOIN is mined using industry standard ASIC miners that are used in mining other cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The mining is veered towards SIACOIN though the use of software that is available on their site for download.
Notes for Investors
SIACOIN is one of the cryptocurrencies with very real world applications and aims to serve a very real need for cheaper and more private cloud storage. Both its attractive prices and high encryption will likely win it a large following. However, it remains to be seen if there will be further blockchain start-ups pursuing the same industry. SIACOIN looks set to become one of the key players before any competitors begin to emerge.
Website: https://sia.tech/
Twitter: no official handle
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/