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Siacoin (SC) Still Threatened by Hard Fork Favoring Obelisk Miners

Published 09/24/2018, 08:04 AM
Updated 09/24/2018, 09:20 AM
 Siacoin (SC) Still Threatened by Hard Fork Favoring Obelisk Miners

Siacoin (SC) Still Threatened by Hard Fork Favoring Obelisk Miners

Siacoin (SC) is still awaiting a clear decision on a hard fork to disable a large part of the ASIC on the network, to the benefit of owners of Obelisk machines. Obelisk, an alternative to Bitmain, produces ASIC for Decred (DCR) and Siacoin’s network, and is connected to a rather vocal minority within the Siacoin community.

The contentious hard fork has been discussed for months, without a clear decision or a tentative date. But a part of the community fears that favoring Obelisk would destroy the Siacoin project:

“If a fork does happen creating an Obelisk monopoly, Siacoin is doomed and the forks of Sia will surpass it in every metric. You think the bubble pop was a crash? Just wait until y...


This article appeared first on Cryptovest

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