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!

For questions about how to use the software you should consult the official Support Center. If you cannot find your answers there one of the following resources might have the answer:

• Frequently Asked Questions - This page answers several common questions, start here!
• Sia Discord - Community members available nearly 24/7 to answer questions
• Sia Forum - Many questions already asked and answered
• /r/Siacoin/ (Reddit) - General Sia discussion, news, and questions

A number of common questions about Sia (including the technology behind Sia, the coin, and others) are answered in our Frequently Asked Questions page. This is a good place to get started!

• 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
• Github Project - Running Sia and Minio in Docker (Aug 2017)

• Sia-UI
• Siac a commandline client for Sia
• Updating the client
• Transferring the Client to a Different Computer

• Troubleshooting
• Lost Transactions Troubleshooter

• The Sia Daemon
• Siad API
• Bootstrapping the Blockchain

• Using the Wallet
• Recovering from seed
• Recovering wallet from a file (only for legacy wallets previous to version 0.3.3)
• Siacoins
• Siafunds
• Transactions confirmation and exchanges issues

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

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

• Mining Software
• Mining Hardware Comparison
• Sia Mining Pools

The Obelisk is a custom ASIC being developed for the Sia network. See the Obelisk page for more information.

• Bounties
• Nebulous Inc.
• Project Structure
• Contribute to Development of Sia
• 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