I am conducting boolberry China propaganda so that potential investors can find gold in the sand.

How quickly will SC be emitted?  I've read total supply will be over 14,000,000,000 in less than a year and is only ~4,000,000,000 now.

Hi! I'm the project lead for Sia, and I think I have a few answers.

1. We've been working on Sia for a long time. We've been working mostly in stealth, because as developers we didn't feel comfortable creating a lot of buzz around a product that didn't exist yet. It sort of rubbed us the wrong way. Sia was conceived around August 2013 - roughly the same time that the Bitcoin price started its acceleration towards $1200. We did our first crowd fund in May 2014, which also predates Storj's first crowd fund.

2. The Sia team comes from what I feel is a much stronger technical background. I rejected a full time job offer from Google to pursue Sia. I have been studying Bitcoin since 2011. Many of the core ideas behind Sia got bounced off of people like Gregory Maxwell and Peter Todd, helping us to find the flaws in our early designs and iterate to something superior. (note: I don't think that either Maxwell or Todd would publicly endorse Sia. They helped see and get past some of the early obstacles, but never took any sort of formal role as mentors and never worked on the project directly).

We have been working on Sia at full steam for about 9 months. (We had a prior implementation that had to be thrown away). We have done our absolute best to use best practices, and are targeting enterprise customers. We are creating a platform that's designed to be maximally efficient, maximally powerful, and as low cost as possible. I think that, thus far, we have been very successful in laying the groundwork.

While Sia is a live currency, the platform itself is still in beta. We are still refining the API. We are still implementing the best host selection algorithms. We are still working on the startup time of the program and are still writing tests for the most important features.

Overall, I do believe that Sia is one of the strongest implementations of a cryptocurrency out there. Many parts of the code have 3x lines of tests code as actual code.

Over the next 1-3 months we are going to be rolling out significantly more powerful features for uploading and sharing files over the Sia network. We will be improving the API so that other applications can easily tap into the Sia network for their own use.

So far, since launching on June 7th, Sia has put out 4 releases. The 5th is right around the corner, and has substantial algorithmic and API improvements compared to the previous release.

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

Opened at ~$2.80/0.01 XBT, ~$170,000,000 market cap.

Charts at:  https://tradeblock.com/markets/krkn/eth-xbt/1h/

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Hate to break it to you but I tracked down Realsolid in 2011. I spoke to him via phone.

Back in 2011 when he started his first scam he was a tad bit sloppy posting on his Twitter about Solidcoin
the day before it's actual launch. Keep in mind this was in the infancy of altcoins. There were less than five total and Solidcoin was the first after Namecoin.
All were SHA256 Bitcoin clones.

Check out this guy's August 2011 Tweet about Solidcoin. Daniel Parnell has a very involved history with the Armitt brothers
who went on to found the forerunner of mcxNOW called CryptoXchange.


https://twitter.com/zarquonsknees


~BCX~