Siacoin (CURRENCY:SC) traded 7.3% lower against the U.S.dollar during the one day period ending at 20:00 PM E.T.on September 23rd.One Siacoin coin can now be bought for $0.0025 or 0.24 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges including Bittrex, Binance, Bisq and OKEx.Siacoin has a total market cap of $111.94 million and $1.85 million worth of Siacoin day.Over the last week, Siacoin has traded down 26.1% against the U.S.dollar.
Here’s how related over the last day:
Bitcoin (BTC) traded 3% $10,219.01 or 1.
BTC.Ethereum (ETH) traded down 7.1% $319.44 or 0.03125908 BTC.Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 5% $207.35 or 0.02029096 BTC.Litecoin (LTC) traded down 3.8% $42.82 or 0.00419039 BTC.Monero (XMR) traded down 5.7% $87.23 or 0.00853594 BTC.Advanced Internet Blocks (AIB) traded 0.8% higher $0.0587 or 0.
574 BTC.UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 1.1% $1.23 or 0.00012019 BTC.Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 2.4% $4.85 or 0.00047480 BTC.Zcash (ZEC) traded down 3.5% $51.60 or 0.00504912 BTC.HedgeTrade (HEDG) traded 5% $0.99 or 0.00009733 BTC.Siacoin Profile
Siacoin (CRYPTO:SC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Blake2b hashing algorithm.Its genesis date was June 1st, 2015.
Siacoin’s total supply is 44,743,552,992 coins.The official website for Siacoin is sia.tech .Siacoin’s official Twitter account is @SiaTechHQ and its Facebook page is accessible here .
The Reddit community for Siacoin is /r/Siacoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here .
According to CryptoCompare, “The foundation of Sia is a proof of work blockchain.Storage contracts are a new type of transaction that get enforced by the blockchain.Sia’s hashing algorithm is blake2b.p2pool and multisig wallets are both supported on Sia.
When a file is uploaded to Sia, a storage contract is created containing the Merkle root of the file, a reward for the host, and a penalty for the host (both in siacoins).After an agreed-upon duration, the host is required to prove that the file is still available by providing a random Merkle proof.If the proof is valid, the host is rewarded; otherwise, the host is penalized.Random numbers are generated deterministically using the most recent block as a seed.
Sia has support for two way payment channels, and two way contract diffs.Among other things, this provides massive scalability, and eliminates the need for untrustworthy 0-confirmation transactions.Once you join a payment channel network, all transactions within that network will be instant and final, with no risk of a double spend.Reliability is achieved by using erasure coding in a massively distributed environment.
Erasure coding allows a file to be split into many pieces, such that the original file can be recovered using only a few of them.For example, you can take a 50 MB file, break it into 200 pieces that are 1 MB each, and then you can recover the original file from *any* 50 of the pieces.This method has the same overhead as creating 4 complete copies of the file, yet is much more reliable because it’s much less likely that 151 out of 200 hosts will go offline than it is that 4 out of 4 hosts will go offline.As the network grows, we will apply statistical analysis to determine the redundancy required to provide 99.9999% reliability on files.
It is likely that 3x overhead is absurd overkill, and statistical analysis will give an accurate picture of how much overhead is required.Using 200 hosts to store a file means that downloads can be massively parallel.Even if the average Sia host does not have quick upload speeds, the massive parallelism enabled by Sia means that downloads will be blazing fast anyway.In addition, you can choose to connect only to the datacenters that are the closest and the fastest.
This optimization (known as a CDN) is a hugely expensive project for a traditional cloud storage service, but for Sia it is a natural consequence of the decentralized network.As security is a top priority of Sia, all encryption is performed locally; the people storing your files will have no ability to see what you have uploaded.Not only is every file encrypted separately, every *piece* of every file is encrypted separately, and hosts are not told which pieces are part of the same file.“
Buying and Selling Siacoin
Siacoin can be bought or sold on these cryptocurrency exchanges: HitBTC, Bittrex, QBTC, Bitbns, Upbit, LBank, Poloniex, CoinEx, OKEx, Binance and Bisq.
It is usually not currently possible to buy Siacoin directly using U.S.dollars.Investors seeking to acquire Siacoin should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S.dollars such as Coinbase , GDAX or Changelly.
Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Siacoin using one of the exchanges listed above..
