Quote from: stealthx on December 01, 2016, 10:41:21 AM

Sia doesn't compete against 2GB free storage in Dropbox. You must compare how much you will pay for 10TB in Dropbox vs in Sia. Price of the SC currency is totaly independent of the storage price. Sia storage price in $ will be still more or less cheap.

Then someone needs to tell whoever to update the SIA website FAQ, prolly white paper too...

Quote from: http://sia.tech/faq/

The Siacoin is used to buy storage on the Sia network, and it's base value is derived from that.

Reality check here guys... between Dropbox, Google, Microsoft and Amazon, the price of cloud storage is a race to the bottom. Google and Microsoft could give terabytes away to enterprise customers for free for months with little impact to their bottomline. SIACOIN can be the price of dirt and still be in an uphill battle to compete, because nothing is cheaper than free and these tech giants have armies of developers to make their shit shine.

Someone say something about customers?

Enterprise IT is the only big customer base willing to adopt and pay for this stuff.

For an enterprise IT shop to take interest, price is important... but more critical is reliability and user friendliness. CTO's or IT upper management are not going to sign-up for bleeding edge software that generates boat loads of support tickets. IT guys are lazy, they don't like users and don't like responding to support tickets even more. Also, most enterprise IT management is conservative, resistant to changing technology (and underwear) -- why? because their pay/bonuses often depend on meeting SLA's (i.e. DOWNTIME : ANGRY USERS = BAD). Damn, it's taken most of them years to entertain the idea of using servers hosted outside their own data centers...