Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta - Currency has been released
Hi, SC newbie here. First of all getting synced was easy, well done! 
Some feature requests:
1/ I missed the notification to port forward, it vanishes after a few seconds, can you make it persistent?
2/ Looks like I have to have the wallet fully unlocked to be a farmer and pick up contracts, seems very insecure. Can you make the wallet 'unlocked for farming only' and to fully unlock you need the passphrase again, (I have seen similar on other coins)?
3/ On the subject of security, I know you (and so do I) want a secure coin, but please add a user generated passphrase option. I dont want my passphrases written anywhere. Set a standard if you like, 50+ characters mix of upper/lower + numbers and special - my 'memory wallet' passphrases exceed that.
4/ I would like to have a preferred list of storage clients, say I want to support a charity with cheap storage below the SC market rate, if they give me their wallet address I can add that and support them privately, without hurting the overall market rate.
5/ Please let me run Sia from my NAS drive where I have 1.5 TB free.
6/ Creating an app for Synology boxes would probably help you with storage volumes.
7/ Please allow Sia to be minimised to the sys tray in windows.
I tend to have a lot of crazy ideas, thanks for listening and good luck!
Some feature requests:
1/ I missed the notification to port forward, it vanishes after a few seconds, can you make it persistent?
2/ Looks like I have to have the wallet fully unlocked to be a farmer and pick up contracts, seems very insecure. Can you make the wallet 'unlocked for farming only' and to fully unlock you need the passphrase again, (I have seen similar on other coins)?
3/ On the subject of security, I know you (and so do I) want a secure coin, but please add a user generated passphrase option. I dont want my passphrases written anywhere. Set a standard if you like, 50+ characters mix of upper/lower + numbers and special - my 'memory wallet' passphrases exceed that.
4/ I would like to have a preferred list of storage clients, say I want to support a charity with cheap storage below the SC market rate, if they give me their wallet address I can add that and support them privately, without hurting the overall market rate.
5/ Please let me run Sia from my NAS drive where I have 1.5 TB free.
6/ Creating an app for Synology boxes would probably help you with storage volumes.
7/ Please allow Sia to be minimised to the sys tray in windows.
I tend to have a lot of crazy ideas, thanks for listening and good luck!
I almost think that we should have a separate client entirely for hosting, with a separate wallet that feeds income into the primary wallet, that way the host can be unlocked all the time without putting many funds at risk. We'll have to work through that more in the future though.
The API actually supports users choosing their own password, and if you use the command line you can achieve it. I want to protect users who are likely to pick bad passwords, so I want the task of choosing your own to need to be deliberate and inconvenient. The command for choosing your own password is 'siac wallet init -p {password}', but you can only choose your own password if you haven't already initialized the wallet.
What do we have to do to support NAS? At this point in time, we have a much heavier supply side than we do a demand side, so we are very heavily focused on increasing demand. We don't have a problem with storage volumes at the moment, even though lots of people have been having trouble with ports, incompatibility, etc. I know it sounds weird, but we don't need more storage unless people are uploading more of their files to the network. We will of course continue to improve the hosting experience but the renting experience is much more of a priority.
I think the next version allows Sia to be minimized, but I'm not positive.
is there a paperwallet for sia?
No paper wallet for Sia.
Sorry to be a fool, where is/how do I launch Sia as command line for Windows?
You gotta plug that security hole with the unlocked wallet, for now Ill keep my SC on one machine always locked and set the other as the one available for hosting.