I love when this thread gets bumped, I always laugh when I read the subject of this thread. If SIA forks it will be absolute proof that they want to centralize this for their own greed. There are 5 ASIC manufacturers that have an ASIC miner out for SIA (6 if you count Obelisk). Thats about 3 more options than if you were GPU mining. And in fact the Baikal BK-B costs $400, and the A3 is available for $157, cheaper than a GPU. The FUD about Bitmain gets old after awhile. Maybe there were some valid points when Bitmain suddenly released the only asic miner but that is not the current environment.
I agree with your point of view. Here situation is clear: a SIA founder would like to save his investment in Obelisk. Don't care about the community but only about his own ass.
Comparison with Monero's fork has no value here. Monero's team announced the fork before the Bitmain's ASICs hit the market.
And the most funny is that Bitmain A3 is now the least efficient Blake2B ASIC. To fight against a paperweight... let me laugh
this is likely true, however...they are kinda stuck..if they DO want to run a decentralized network for anonymous cloud storage at 10c
to $1 non-anonymous cloud storage, that Amazon plugs, well, they really have no choice (again, this is confusing, but IMHO).
My reasoning goes like this, people have been mining siacoin, the price has collapsed, the difficulty is high, thus, NO ONE will go
back to GPU mining, and even the current blake2b miners, if they can't make even electric in a month or so ...well, no more network.
(remember at these prices, even bitmain units are not worth running anymore)
So, do they watch the whole project fold, because they screwed up and the coin/token they want to use to run their 'supposed secure
ASIC network, for the decentralized and anonymous cloud storage solution. With, soon, no ASIC miner being worth, of any brand, running
this coin...they are stuck.
Thus the fork reboot, from their point of view, they have now limited the ASIC's to theirs (which they intended in the first place), the price
of the coin as such (the new forked coin/token) would now be dependent on their decentralized anonymous cloud storage solution working
no longer just priced by 'scarcity' in the GPU days, etc....and they can continue the project with some control.
IF Siacoin was simply, mined and pumped, due to 'scarcity' without this network involved...well...it was and continues to be just a
speculative coin due to price and scarcity. They will not be able to do this with their new forked token/coin..it will have to be based under
this setup, on the success of the vision of cloud storage they have. That may not work, worth a lick either. But to be truthful, the days of
siacoin amounting to anything for use vs the speculative price it still is now, well that boat was sinking anyway.
So, fair or not ...it is Sia-Tech's attempt to salvage their original vision of a network with their machines for their cloud storage solution.
Indeed, both mining versions may just be 'mining air', so to speak.
I DO have 5 obelisk's coming and of course see this as the ONLY solution for at least the POTENTIAL for my Obelisk Sc-1's, not to be
immediate doorstops. But again, Moreno is forking to get away from Bitmain ASIC's...this is just more of the same. A way to control
their siacoin network for their cloud miner vision. But anyway, IMHO, if they do the fork, on a hope, because as I see it, Siacoin was doomed
even before the price dump. With no way to use it for the siacoin network in its present form...it was just a matter of time.
So one of 3 outcomes
1) fork kills siacoin in use/price and as a coin, to dismal fading away. Their forked coin/token with its intended use survives/thrives.
2) fork just splits the pain between both coins..which struggle...but Sia-Tech gets a half-assed attempt out of their cloud vision in use.
3) both forked coins fail from the fork...weaken each other...all comes to naught
slim odds, no matter how you look at it. May very well be 'too little, too late'
then again, I find the whole thing befuddling as hell, so we will see
I can't even figure out if my first 5 Obelisk's were in the 1st batch or not? I know I got the 1st one, the first week, for a better coupon,
but have no idea, how the batches were set up. I think I paid the same for all, so maybe my stuff is in the 1st batch?
So about the only thing I have going as a conclusion now is I probably will get $90 and may get $450 back (peanuts) on this email.
anyway, as they say, we will be the first to know, chump or champ ..it is always chump or champ
brad