Sia: ASIC wars, bricking the Bitmain and Innosilicon ASICs

Sia: ASIC wars, bricking the Bitmain and Innosilicon ASICs
Here goes another chapter of ASIC wars. This time, Sia is under attack and is striking back with the v1.3.6 hardfork. This hardfork will reset Sia"s Proof-of-Work function. This will make ASICs by Bitmain and Innosilicon useless.

The whole story started with the Bitmain that announced their ASIC miner for Sia network just 10 days before shipping. That was the announcement that almost caused the civil war in Sia community. Why?
In June 2017, we announced that Sia would be pursuing ASICs, and that Nebulous (parent company of Sia) would be sp ...
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