Quote from: Alfred Hard on June 21, 2017, 05:57:05 PM

Lol, I'm talking about the sia wallet sync, which is taking forever and I can't access to the siacoins I sent from bittrex. From the previous page:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg19675020#msg19675020

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg19675870#msg19675870

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.msg19677884#msg19677884

I could have sold the siacoins when the price was higher to buy some more Shift and get more profit than what I'm getting right now with SC (which is giving me zero profit right now, and I'm actually losing money since I sent them to the wallet), and maybe later I could buy some SC again with said profits, but I just can't because their sh*tty wallet needs an eternity to sync and in the meanwhile I can't access to my SC. I don't even know if my SC are in the wallet because I can't see the balance until the wallet is synchronized, but I guess they are there because they are not in Bittrex since I sent them.

If I had known that the sync could take this long, I would have never sent the SC to the wallet and I would have kept them in Bittrex until the sync was done, but nowhere in their site they warn that the sync can take such a long time and that in the meanwhile you just can't access your SC.

I bought the SC as a long term investment, but after this, as soon as the wallet is sync, I don't care what they announce this friday, I'll sell all my SC and will never look back, because it's not normal having to wait for DAYS until the wallet is sync and that in the meanwhile you can't access you SC and that this is not warned anywhere in their site. Sad

Downloading the blockchain on a HDD takes about 3 days. If you need to speed it up, use SSDs instead, and it will be only a few hors. It is an intesnsive process,a s every block has to be validated. Just relax and wait.

And stop blaming the software because it is your bad entirely. The question of "How long does it take to sync the blockchain" is asked every couple of days here. If you have checked previous pages you'll have seen the answer dozens of times. If you were a "long-term investor" as you mentioned, why selling so fast?. If you are a short-term speculator, why withdrawing from the exchange? If you wanted to withdraw, nevertheless, why didn't you did your part and investigate a bit about the coin before?

Quote from: metallicelmo on June 21, 2017, 08:24:30 PM

So this news that they might release some sort of ASIC specially built for SIA, this will speed up the blocks right? Will that cause them to be more rare when it reaches the point that there is less coins per block to be mined?

No, you are not understanding the principles of mining in crypto-currencies. If global hashing power increases, the protocol increases the difficulty so the average block time remains constant: 10 minutes

Quote from: kwab on June 21, 2017, 07:13:24 PM

Does Sia Coin support running on a Raspberry Pi?!

64-bit machines are required. 8Gb RAM recommended. Far far away from the possibilities of a RPi, sorry. If you want a cheap 24/7 machine for hosting, why not an Intel NUC instead? ;-)