I have something weird going on with my wallet. I noticed 2 days ago there was a -0.088 SC withdraw. I know its a tiny amount, but there is there any reason this would happen?
Those small transactions are just wallet auto-defragmentation: you might have multiple addresses containing balances and the wallet merges them into a single address to facilitate future expending. Each time the wallet defragmentates, is a transaction in the network, and those -0.088SC are the fees for that transaction.
Have not kept track ..but does anyone know if Sia-Tech folk are "on track" with the 'decentralized storage' aspect of Siacoin ...that HOPEFULLY will be available
WHEN their obelisk miners hit in June? (I think it is June now?) ....gonna really suck to have a mess of obelisks with the biitmain units sitting about pumping out
siacoin...without this network....(remember the ASIC's in 2013 knc titans.that did scrypt-n coins (think there were 12) ASIC resistant....they destroyed the value
of all the coins in a week. (viacoin moved protocols..I think it was viacoin) and destroyed all value of those coins in a week....bye, bye scrypt-N..)
sh*t happens
anyway, any info on above?
The storage network has been working since day 1 of the blockchain, for the last 2 years and half. Currently it consists on more than 4 Petabytes across almost 900 hosts in 58 countries (
https://www.siastats.info/hosts_network). Core developers keep working on improving the protocol and the client. For instance version 1.3.1 released 2 months ago increased the upload speeds to more than 50Mbps and version 1.3.2, that will be released in a few days, will improve the downloads speed and reliability: beta testers are reporting consistently average download speeds above 50Mbps too.
The release date of Obelisks will be June or before. There are good chances they can be delivered sooner than expected, but there is not yet official confirmations on this
I don't see your point about the effect of ASICs being responsible of downtrends in the coin price: on every coin where ASICs have been deployed (Scrypt coins like Litecoin, Dash...) the coin price has increased in the end, probably because the increased security provides confidence in the network, and because the cost of the hardware gets tied to the value of the mined coins