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Agree, Sia does look very promising. But plenty of work needs to be done before it is a real product. The first-use experience isn't good right now.

How many technically challenging products have been overnight successes?

One thing that is really confounding about all the anti-blockchain rhetoric on HN is that people seem to expect these products to be finished instantaneously. Building great products takes years.

True, but if you visit a site like http://sia.tech/ , in my opinion it gives the impression of a product ready to use today. Though if you look at their roadmap https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap , you get another (more realistic) picture.

Blockchain has had eight years to come up with a use case that isn't a cryptocurrency. (And cryptocurrency has had eight years to come up with a use case that isn't illicit goods.) At this point, it's entirely reasonable to ask where the beef is.

It got my attention. You can expect a review of Sia on shitcoin.com soon!

It also has one of the only dev teams in the decentralized storage space that truly understand the power (and more importantly, the limitations) of blockchain.