We are currently urgently looking for a UI/UX person to join full time.
Bumped that for you ... the wallet UI is so impoverished that it will significantly hinder the launch.
Cheers
Graham
Do you have more specific criticisms? We can't overhaul anything by June 7th but we can make a series of tweaks. Other than the fact that the UI has a fixed height, I feel that our UI is pretty good.
Just to clarify, mining is done through proof of work and no longer through proof of storage where you offer up your storage space?
I'm a little confused. Do you get siacoin by offering storage or not?
You get siacoin by offering storage, because people are paying you for that storage. Proof of storage is used to guarantee that the files are being held as claimed.
Consensus is driven by pow mining however.
We already have Storj. How is Sia different from it?
Sia uses a substantially different technology stack. From what I understand of Storj, storage verification happens through hosts checking on each other. Storj does not have good protection against deduplication, Sybil attacks, and has a novel and not academically verified method of consensus. Sia does use an academically verified method of consensus, has strong deduplication defense, and strong Sybil defense.
Storj has been changing rapidly, some of my criticisms may no longer apply.
Is it the same SIA which made an asset on NXT AE last summer?
As grandpa_seth has confirmed, yes, this is the same Sia.