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When file sharing is enabled, who will pay the cost of bandwidth, and how? (For example, the situation where a renter shares a file that gets 1 million downloads.)

Firstly, thanks for such thoughtful and in-depth responses to all the questions posed today!!

Regarding this question: this seems like a very important area to nail down. Very glad you guys are thinking ahead, to clients such as Youtube (with potentially hundreds of millions of downloads/views video files).

What’s the timeline (and technical roadmap, if you can share any of that without compromising state secrets) for recovering both coins AND files with one’s wallet seed?

Until then, Sia is simply remote data storage. (Albeit one with nifty bells/whistles.) Because users must still backup important data in some other way/shape/form, e.g. on a local hard drive, Dropbox, etc.

What concrete steps are being taken to attract 3rd party developers to utilize Sia?

Are there any open source tools under development, to ease the learning curve of Sia’s “quirks”: dealing with the wallet, siacoin and btc, contracts, full_node requirement, etc etc?

Regarding “team sia”: is it management’s opinion that it is of optimal size, and encompasses all necessary knowledge and skillsets to realize the current roadmap, both in terms of product dev, and marketing?

If not, what is the forecasted timeline for bringing on new talent, and what areas will the new hire(s) be focussed on?