Sia

Decentralized Storage

Origin Story

• Trying to Replace POW
• Use 'general storage' in place of 'worthless compute'
• A fruitless endevor
• Waste is State-of-the-Art

Decentralized Storage

• All modern cloud storage is centralized
• Vulnerable to trust, lockin, censorship, abuse
• Privacy Concerns
• Conflicts of interest

Trust Is Expensive

Decentralizing Storage

• 'Proof of Storage' - Merkle Trees
• Managing Reliability - Geo-Erasure Coding
• Managing Hostility - Competition

Host Selection

• Sybil Attacks - Proof-of-Burn
• Google Attacks - List curation
• Targeted Attacks - Anonymity
•  All - Ongoing Cat + Mouse

Open Problem!

Surprise Advantages

• Builtin Geo-Colocation
• Massively Parallel Bandwidth
• Efficient Content Distribution
• High Reliability @ Low Redundnacy

TODAY!

• Beta! Download it today!
• Get paid for hosting!
• Upload things to the network!
• It's BuggY!

Problems

• Startup Time - Blockchain Scanning
• Implementing Databases
• Correctly Selecting Hosts
• Uploading large files trustlessly
• Scalability

Customers

• "Don't Do 'X'" -> I did 'X' anyway :(
• Why doesn't your beta work as well as Dropbox?
• I lost hundreds of dollars and it's your fault - please help!

We love our users. But users are stressful.

Enterprises

• "I can't wait to start sending you bug reports :}"
• "Uh, everything's broken. Is it supposed to be that way? No worries ping me when it's fixed."
• "You guys are really cool and work really hard. We're excited to see where this goes."

Enterprises Make Life Enjoyable

WE ARE HIRING

• Sophomores - Co-op Only
• Juniors - Co-op or Summer
• Full Time - Talk to Me :)

We pay well.

Write Lots of Code