Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta

it works! ... (just gotta watch that little "siad" thingy) just shut that down properly if needed and its all good Cheesy

Can you elaborate? I ran the 0.4.2 GUI and after shutting down noticed siad still running. I killed the process and when the GUI is restarted get the error message "siad exited with code: 0"

~~How exactly does one go about shutting down siad "properly" (linux?) and is there a way to recover from these corruption issues?~~

Edit: I managed to remove the consensus file and start over. That seems to fix it.

Question: Where can I find a mining how-to? I downloaded Sia-UI-v0.4.2-beta-linux64.tar.gz which does not seem to include a miner. I've seen GUI screenshots with a Miner tab, which my GUI also is missing. How do I go about accessing the mining options in the GUI?

TO AVOID CORRUPTING YOUR WALLET:

Try this if you must shut down "siad" after closing wallet. ( if you going to restart your PC etc. ) Otherwise leave siad running as a process.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg12410622#msg12410622

and this easier short cut to CMD prompt

You can shift+right click the SIA folder and open a command prompt with the location already set. Then type >siac stop from that path in CMD after the >

Hope this helps to avoid corrupting your wallet again.

Stuff like this...
Will limit this (very promising) project to super-geeks that unlimited time to f*ck around with crypto wallets.

That said, the GUI wallet is what counts and it's making progress:

OK, the blockchain is updated and I've transferred a little test coin from Polo...
But, of course, I'm LOCKED OUT... even after I've been given a 29 word passphrase (where NXT uses only 12 words).

Oh, the Dev wants me to run another 2 separate command line utilities...
And muck around with more passphrases with little known copy/paste techniques via consoles.

Let's add 17 more "locks", baby = very poor design.

Sorry, but you HAVE TO make GUI wallet standalone to attract normal people. Please make standalone GUI wallet a priority.