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Sia seems like a Dropbox/OneDrive replacement whereas Filecoin is an incentivized storage layer infrastructure for apps to use, especially dapps. If you wanted
by Sargos 6y ago
Sia seems like a Dropbox/OneDrive replacement whereas Filecoin is an incentivized storage layer infrastructure for apps to use, especially dapps.
If you wanted to build a decentralized SoundCloud you couldn't use Sia but IPFS/Filecoin is the primary building block of such a dapp.
- olah_1 6y agoSia released a new version of their product called Skynet[1] which provides exactly the functionality of IPFS+Filecoin today. Part of Skynet is a group of SDKs[2] which you can use to integrate skynet storage as part of your application. I believe that they are even adding the ability for developers to get kickbacks if they build on Sia[3]. If you do want something like Dropbox that is built on Sia, there is Filebase[4]. I am not associated with Sia at all. I've just been following their twitter for a while. [1]: https://siasky.net/ https://siasky.net/ [2]: https://nebulouslabs.github.io/skynet-docs/#introduction https://nebulouslabs.github.io/skynet-docs/#introduction [3]: https://twitter.com/SiaTechHQ/status/1291441690008592384 https://twitter.com/SiaTechHQ/status/1291441690008592384 [4]: https://docs.filebase.com/ https://docs.filebase.com/
- xur17 6y agoI'm curious to look at filecoin - last time I tried to use sia, it was still fairly rough around the edge (minimum file size, seed based recovery isn't automatic, etc).