Hello, welcome to the Sia Wiki!

This wiki is intended as a source for new community members to understand Sia and its surrounding ecosystem. The wiki is maintained by the Sia community. Feel free to contribute!

See obelisk for more information about what Obelisk is about.

If you need help, the best place to go is the Sia Slack. There you can always find someone who can answer your questions. Other good places are the Forum and Reddit. Please use the forum if you have questions that may be useful for other people as well. Like this, the questions and answers don't get lost so easily.

• Introduction to Sia
• Infographic - What is Sia
• History of Sia
• Introduction to File Contracts
• PoW vs PoS
• Trustlessness

• What is Sia (May 2017)
• Infographic - What is Sia
• Sia Blog - Getting started uploading with Sia (Jan 2017)
• Sia Blog - How to run a host on Sia (May 2016)
• Blog - Farming with SIA in my Desktop (Nov 2016)
• Blog - Running Sia on a Synology NAS via Docker (Jan 2017)
• Blog - A Beginner’s Guide to Mining Siacoin (May 2017)
• Forum - SIA on headless Linux
• Introducing cloud storage in the blockchain with Sia and Nextcloud (Apr 2017)
• Bootstrapping the blockchain

• User Interface
• Command Line Interface
• Updating the Interface

• Troubleshooting

• Daemon
• API
• Bootstrapping the blockchain

• Using the Wallet
• Recovering from Seed
• Recovering from File (only for legacy wallets previous to version 0.3.3)
• Siacoin
• Siafund
• Transactions confirmation and exchanges issues

• Using the UI for Hosting
• Hosting
• Scoring System
• Security of Hosts
• Troubleshooting
• How to Run a Host on Sia (from blog.sia.tech)

• Using the UI for renting
• Renting
• Contracts
• Host Centralization

• Software
• Hardware Comparison
• Pools

• Bounties
• Nebulous Inc.
• Project Structure
• Contributing
• Obelisk

• 3rd Party Development - Products that use Sia

• Sia in the News - A list of news articles about Sia
• Sia AMA - The latest Sia Ask-Me-Anything on Reddit

• FAQ - This section collects and answers some common questions we've seen asked by users on various forums. Feel free to link to here when you see an unanswered question somewhere and it's already been answered here.