Siacoin (CURRENCY:SC) traded down 5.4% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on October 28th.Siacoin has a total market cap of $81.47 million and approximately $7.45 million worth of Siacoin 24 hours.One Siacoin coin can now be bought for $0.0019 or 0.21 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges including OKEx, LBank, Bisq and HitBTC.During the last week, Siacoin has traded down 2.3% against the dollar.
Here is how related 24 hours:
Get Siacoin alerts: Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 4.3% $9,252.15 or 1.BTC.Ethereum (ETH) traded 1.7% $182.68 or 0.01975704 BTC.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 0.9% $264.35 or 0.02858937 BTC.Litecoin (LTC) traded down 4.6% $58.23 or 0.00629780 BTC.Monero (XMR) traded down 1.5% $59.55 or 0.00643981 BTC.UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 3.5% $0.95 or 0.00010232 BTC.Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 0.2% $4.88 or 0.00052829 BTC.
Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 0.5% $0.0027 or 0.29 BTC.Zcash (ZEC) traded 2.3% $37.87 or 0.00409569 BTC.Paxos Standard (PAX) traded 0.1% higher $1.00 or 0.00010806 BTC.
Siacoin Coin Profile
Siacoin (CRYPTO:SC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Blake2b hashing algorithm.Its launch date was June 1st, 2015.Siacoin’s total supply is 41,817,047,634 coins.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 .The official website for Siacoin is sia.tech .
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.
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Siacoin Coin Trading
Siacoin can be bought or sold on the following cryptocurrency exchanges: Poloniex, QBTC, Bisq, LBank, CoinEx, Upbit, Bitbns, HitBTC, OKEx, Binance and Bittrex.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 Changelly, Coinbase or GDAX.
Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Siacoin using one of the exchanges listed above..
