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Show HN: Sia, a User-Owned Amazon S3 Challenger

• fiatjaf 10y ago
  Whoa. Why isn't anyone talking about this? It seems to be huge!
  • zherbert 10y ago
    We've honestly been way more focused on engineering than marketing.
    • simplehuman 10y ago
      Are you a startup?
      • zherbert 10y ago
        Yes
• fiatjaf 10y ago
  Filecoin promises, Siacoin delivers. Is that what we should conclude?
  • notheguyouthink 10y ago
    As much as i love IPFS, it's a shame to me how slow IPFS and Filecoin appear to be developing.. from the outside, at least.
  • zherbert 10y ago
    We hope so!
• zherbert 10y ago
  Good follow-up about some concerns that came through on Twitter after article was published: https://blog.sia.tech/addressing-thoughtful-concerns-about-sias-security-viability-103ccfff5e92#.g029tncx2 https://blog.sia.tech/addressing-thoughtful-concerns-about-s...
• amalag 10y ago
  Files are encrypted when sent and you need that key and metadata to retrieve the file. So how do you back that up if you are trying to prevent catastrophic data loss? You need a particular file to retrieve data, what do you do about that file?