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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.

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.

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.

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.

The Sia API is a standard HTTP API, so you should be able to use it from any language that supports making HTTP requests. That said, we do have an official sia.js library, and a community member recently started working on some Python bindings as well. You can check those out here:

sia.js: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/nodejs-sia siapy: https://github.com/lolsteve/siapy

API Documentation: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/blob/master/doc/API.md