ASICS have been around alot longer than segwit has.
trying to assume that asics were hard programmed to actively attack segwit is like blaming a caveman for something invented much much later.
let me guess Jihan has a time machine and seen october 2016's segwit code and and went back in time to 2015 and started building the blueprints for the s9 specifically to hurt segwit
p.s im using gmaxwells announcement of him reverse engineering a chip... (before you propaganda twist it into being about software)
afterall your all complaining about bitmain (hardware company) not CGminer (software company)
kind of funny hardware and cgminer developed befor segwit:bitcoin was even released is suddenly.. 6 months into segwit deadline a "sudden threat"
yawn
gmaxwel has $70m debt to repay and is actually looking to for any reason to split the network.
afterall he did ask nicely early on
I tried to convince the authors of BIP101 to make their proposal bilateral ... Sadly, the proposals authors were aggressively against this.
The ethereum hardfork was bilateral, probably the only thing they did right--
meanwhile other implementations plod along for the last 2 years + making no threats no deadlines and no timebomb or PoW nukes..
time to say blockstream are getting REKT.
all them real independant core devs. maybe its time to maintain core without blockstream reliance because blockstream wont be around forever