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With dropbox, google drive, and AWS, you're trusting a central authority to store your data. With the ever-increasing reports of data breaches and government spying, having a single point of failure for all of your data owned by a large corporation becomes an increasingly frightening prospect. Sia encrypts and then splits up your data (using reed-solomon erasure coding) and sends it to many independent hosts across the globe, providing security and global redundancy and ensuring only you control your data.

We do not run the servers that host Sia's data. Sia is a decentralized storage network where anyone can spin up a host and offer their storage to the network. If there are legality complaints, they can be directed to the individual running the Host where the illegal content resides and that host may delete the offending content.

install Sia, start an instance of siad, synchronize the blockchain, get SC and set an allowance, then you can:

tar -cvzf backup.tar.gz /path/to/backup && siac renter upload backup.tar.gz backup

no reason you couldn't throw this in a bash script and crontab it.

In 3 years, I hope to see Sia with a massive distributed network of nodes globally hosting many petabytes or even exabytes of data for both large enterprises and small users alike.

Mobile wallets would likely require a SPV (simplified payment verification) node for Sia, since mobile devices likely do not have enough guts to run a full Sia node currently. It's something that's in the backlog, but is not a priority at the moment.