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That sounds more taxing on my connection than what I was thinking. Not really up for 100 connections, but if I'm matched up with 1 or 2 other users then that would seem ok.


From what I understand it doesn't really work like that - files get split in to 30 chunks on different providers, and you only need 10 to restore. Apparently "this means that if 20 out of 30 hosts go offline, a Sia user is still able to download her files."


What's the difference? The 1 or 2 users could be in a datacentre with all the bandwidth in the world.




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