Just change your DNS. (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4)

I was going to start writing on Medium then found out I had issues getting my equations there. lol

I'm not sure about ASIC mining myself. If they are using the same computation (e.g. SHA256) then wouldn't people still be able to jump between coins...? Also how likely it is for a "normal" users to buy dedicated hardware, vs just using a GPU (could it lead to a very centralised groups of people, e.g. data centers running ASICs to secure the blockchain hence data centres owning most of the hashrates). I would imagine mining pools to not be able to convince all miners to act maliciously, compared to data centers.

Need to thoroughly look through Vorick's thoughts. Maybe later.

Finished reading as well.
There are bits and pieces i dont understand fully.
However, would agree that Vorick had made it very digestible for the average folk.

In short i would see if as shifting Siacoin's mining infrastructure to a more stable hardware framework less prone to community attack.

Question i had then is how is ANS/NEO different ? Curious to understand more.

Paying a USD2.5k and they only accept Bitcoin. Plus the downside is the product only comes out in more than 6 months.
What will happen in between no one knows.
So, are you dumping SC?

Would think that producing ASICs would not be that tall a mountain to climb.
It is an existing tech product after all.
Getting sufficient pre-orders might be.

This might be where the community splits. Investors looking for quick gain VS techies in for the long run.
Hmm. HODL or dump ?

My sentiments as well. It will be ironic if they become an ASIC company years down the road instead of decentralized cloud storage.

Obelisk is the company that will be producing these chips. Obelisk is a fully owned subsidiary of Nebulous Inc. Nebulous is the company that employs all of the Sia core developers.

Obelisk has plans for growth in the future. None of these plans are finalized as we are primarily focusing on shipping this miner, but potential future products include:

Oh relax......so SC went down by 1% in dollar value......that's hardly a crash......not even a tank or a dip.
Don't just look at the SC/BTC conversion rate......BTC has been steadily inching up over the last 24 hours, so it's natural that you'll see a negative value on those coins that remain unchanged in terms of fiat value.
Chill and go grab a Kit Kat.

Try this method

https://reddit.com/r/Antshares/comments/6ax...ef=search_posts
Before 9pm, it'll get rejected and you waste fees.

People would send a ton of huge transactions on 8:59:30

Can buy them tokens from Mr Whale.

which open market can buy from?

Desktop free from the internet? Wouldn't a hardware wallet be cheaper?

Haha that explains your enthusiasm. Good luck bro. I've seen a few of my friends building up computers from scratch just to store their cryptos. It could be worth it in the long run

Well, we have always been trading stocks, not really experts or anything, just casual investing through tips and rumours that we get. So when I discovered crypto, I pretty much dragged all their sorry asses along. Best thing I did so far, haven't been looking at stocks for awhile now.

Ohh, Sibu many tycoons. Looks like we have another whale swimming around here .. hehe

It has become evident that miners are not opposed to the Bitcoin Core development team’s transaction malleability fix Segregated Witness (Segwit) given the overwhelming support towards Segwit2x, a proposal made by Barry Silbert-led Digital Currency group and 57 other companies that include major mining pool operators such as Bitmain.

The hashrate signaling the activation of Segwit2x is currently over 90 percent at the time of writing. The proposal entails the activation of Segwit at an 80 percent activation threshold by September and the execution of a 2MB block size increase hard fork six months thereafter. The key component of the proposal is the activation of Segwit and given the 90 percent support from miners, it is quite clear that miners are in favor of activating Segwit.

    Segwit2x’s 91% miner support is strongest consensus signal ever for blocksz growth. Hard work is just beginning. https://t.co/ZyJ6YYr17E

    — Mike Belshe (@mikebelshe) June 22, 2017

One condition requested by the miners is the execution of a 2MB block size increase hard fork which derived from the Hong Kong scaling agreement that was established in February of 2016. The majority of miners believe that the expected 75 percent optimization of block size through the activation of Segwit and additional scaling via second layer payment channels such as Lightning are not sufficient to address the explosive growth of the bitcoin industry and user base.

Yet, the rapidly increasing support towards Segwit2x has proven to the industry and community that miners are not opposed to Segwit for technical reasons. In fact, a major mining pool operator ViaBTC, recently stated:

    “The main reason to refuse Segwit is because the roadmap of bitcoin core, not the technical detail.”

The development team behind ViaBTC revealed that the company along with many China-based mining companies such as Bitmain’s Antpool have been opposed to Segwit due to their rejection of the Bitcoin Core development team’s roadmap. In particular, ViaBTC wrote in a blog post earlier this year that it does not approve Bitcoin Core’s roadmap of utilizing Segwit as a scaling solution.

    “Segwit, which is a soft fork solution for malleability, cannot solve the capacity problem. From Core members’ public statements, they didn’t attach necessary importance on this issue. Even if Segwit after activation can slightly scale up block size with new transaction formats, it’s still far behind the demand for the development of Bitcoin network,” wrote the ViaBTC development team.

However, one of the solutions offered by Segwit is the infrastructure for two layer solutions such as Lightning which are expected to open doors for a wide range of services and applications that can operate on top of bitcoin and most importantly, significantly lower transaction fees through the usage of payment channels.

Similar to the viewpoint of Bitmain, ViaBTC claimed that the implementation of Lightning and payment channels will lead to centralization of transactions by deviating from direct on-chain peer to peer transactions to payment channel-based transactions.

To this date, Bitcoin Core, the industry and community have been straightforward with the scaling roadmap. Activate Segwit to strengthen security measures by eliminating transaction malleability and providing better infrastructure for hardware wallets and establish a working platform for two layer solutions for long-term scalability.

The scaling debate has started to see some progress as miners agreed to activate Segwit given a condition to increase the block size by 2MB. Given that the mining community is opposed to the sole activation of Segwit due to non-technical reasons, over the next few weeks, the bitcoin industry is likely to see major progress with scaling.

Wow. My paper lost almost MYR 10k for ANS and another 5k plus for other altcoins. Sad part not enuf BTC now to get cheap coins