1. uptime depends on the hosts, which are anonymous, contract free users like me and you. You can store all your data on my pc, then I just realize I make much more on burst coins and who cares.
2. What? What do you mean by reliability.
3. How? Download bandwidth depends on a connection between me and you, and I doubt neither of us has a network comparable to professional services which have multi hundreds gigabits of connections.
1. Uptime depends on hosts yes, but there is redundancy. You're telling me all hosts will just abandon Sia? There are businesses already setup to offer hosting for Sia (there is one specific one that comes to mind on Sia's forums. Look around there.)
2. Sorry, by reliability I meant redundance!
3. You can download from many hosts at once on the Sia network. It's block-storage based. Like I said, it's torrent-esque because you can download from many sources at once.
So it solves a problem that has already free alternatives. It solves a non existing problem.
Uh, where can I get free, fast, anonymous, encryption-by-default hosting?
Another use I can think of for Sia: lossy big data. Store lots of records onto the network that are not important until the network becomes larger. Once it's larger (so more redundance), important data could be put there too.
You're free to believe in what you want, but you can bring no valid logic to counter my arguments.
Why do you say bullshit like this? To scare people? Anyway, let the debate continue. I look forward to your responses.