the ASIC's oblesk have out for siacoin (July 2018) and decred (aug/sept 2018) are all likely doorstops now
http://www.innosilicon.com/html/s11-miner/index.html their siacoin miner version
http://www.innosilicon.com/html/d9-miner/index.html their decred miner version
innsilicon has units that are more eff and much bigger hash in the world NOW....thus those who got these obelisk ASIC's of any flavor are dorked
so what does this mean? unless sia-tech 'forks' which is as likely as me being Natalie Portman's love puppet (i wish) ....these will never have to be
take out of the box (keep in the cardboard box for ease of movement as doorstops)
what is worse, is I swapped 5 1/2 off obelisk coupons for 1 middle of sept decred miner...hell, might not be worth turning on, even though it was a free
decred unit, live an learn I guess
but gonna be an 'interesting' network of bitmain units and innsilicon units and others....running the sia-tech 'supposed' network, if they get it up to
speed in time.....the obelisk products themselves will likely not have enough 'punch' to mine for more than a month...assuming they ship on time
them's the breaks I guess
brad
siacoin is only as good as the anonymous decentralized network that the devs are making for cloud storage...The current price (IMHO) is 'speculation' of the coin,
but without the ASIC's and the above network coming together and offering services, as they say, with above-decentralized nature and at 10c to $1 storage rates
of Amazon...the coin won't matter the ASIC's won't matter it will all be moot and siacoin will be useless....without a use you just have a crap load of ASIC's making
siacoin with no real purpose anymore...so their vision of decentralized and anonymous storage has to come into play...or we are just mining air...
or so I see this (better minds then mine can chime in on this)