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  • Welcome to Sia!
  • Get Started with Sia
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    • Sia 101
    • What are Siacoins?
    • How to buy Siacoins
    • What is the Siacoin total supply?
  • Your Sia Wallet
    • Wallet overview
    • The importance of your seed
    • How to make a Sia address
    • How to send Siacoins
    • How do I change my Sia wallet password?
    • Back up your Sia wallet
    • Wallet troubleshooting
      • Delete your seed and make a new one
      • Find or fix your seed
      • I lost my seed. What do I do?
      • My deposit or withdrawal didn't go through
      • Why does Sia take so long to sync?
      • What are these deductions in my wallet?
      • Why does Sia-UI give me a new address each time I click Receive Siacoin?
    • Sia-UI FAQs
      • How to download and install Sia-UI
      • How to make a new wallet in Sia-UI
      • How to restore a wallet from a seed in Sia-UI
      • How to perform a clean install in Sia-UI
      • How do I uninstall Sia-UI?
    • For Advanced Users
      • Verify the Sia release signature
      • Using Sia on a remote node
      • Using Sia on multiple computers
      • How to bootstrap the Sia blockchain
      • How to automatically restart and unlock Sia
      • How to set an environment variable
    • 🚧walletd
      • Wallet overview
  • Renting
    • About renting on Sia
    • Managing your files
    • How to rent storage on Sia
    • How to back up and restore your files
    • Renter troubleshooting
    • Is my data secure?
    • 🚧renterd
      • About renting on Sia
      • renterd Workshop
  • Hosting
    • About hosting on Sia
    • Hosting with the Sia-UI GUI
    • Hosting with the siad CLI on Linux
    • Hosting FAQ
    • 🚧hostd
      • About hosting on Sia
      • Setup Guides
        • Linux
        • macOS
        • Windows
      • Dynamic DNS
        • DuckDNS
        • Cloudflare (Advanced)
  • Mining
    • About mining on Sia
    • Sia mining pools
  • Contributing
    • How can I contribute to Sia?
    • Where can I learn more about Sia?
  • Siafunds
    • What are Siafunds?
    • How do I buy Siafunds?
    • How to cash out Siafunds
    • SEC Settlement FAQ
  • Sia Integrations
    • Listing Siacoin on your exchange
    • Using the Sia Ledger app with Sia Central
    • Using the Sia Ledger Nano app with CLI
    • Brand guidelines for Sia in your project or site
  • Testnet
    • What is Zen?
  • Forks
    • Using the wrong chain after a fork
    • Navigating the 2021 Sia hardfork
    • So, you didn't update in time for the fork
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Is my data secure?

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Your data is incomparably safe when you use Sia. Sia is a fully decentralized cloud storage network. It has been operating since 2015, hundreds of terabytes are currently being stored on it, and thousands of terabytes have been stored over the years.

The data normally on Sia gets split up, encrypted, and the pieces are then distributed all around the world to different hosts.

It's just the way it's built

Sia is decentralized, which has a lot of inherent benefits. While we develop the software, we're not in charge of the network. No one is - it's all handled by smart contracts and a blockchain, and so you can make sure we're staying honest.

When you upload your media to Sia, every single file gets divided into 30 segments before uploading, each targeted for distribution to hosts across the world.

File segments are created using , commonly used in CDs and DVDs.

Each file segment is encrypted before being sent out.

Security

The technical side

Like we mentioned earlier, Sia divides each file into 30 segments before uploading and puts those pieces all over the world on the Sia network. This distribution assures that no one host represents a single point of failure and reinforces overall network uptime and redundancy.

The allows Sia to divide files in a redundant manner, where any 10 of 30 segments can fully recover a user's file.

This means that if 20 out of 30 hosts go offline, a user is still able to download a file. And when hosts go offline, Sia automatically starts to re-duplicate them again. It would take a simultaneous global event to knock out enough hosts to damage the integrity of your files.

And because Sia is decentralized, no one person, company, or government can deny you access. It's global and governed by no one.

The economic side

Just as important as how it keeps your data secure, is why. The Sia network keeps your data safe because data hosts are financially incentivized to provide enterprise-level service. They earn money by hosting data, so naturally, they want to be good hosts.

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