Sia’s possible fork might have much to bring to the limelight regarding the community governance taking control. The Sia community has moved ahead to acknowledge that ASIC miners are a big plus to network and that was in consideration of the fact that they provided additional security. The formation of a company called Obelisk was in line with the development of the Sia-compatible ASICs.
It is crucial to pinpoint that the persons that have been operating Nebulous are still the same ones running Obelisk. This is adding on to the popularity of Obelisk and that was the reason why quite a large number in the community proceeded to pre-order the Sia ASICs during the recent crowdsale.
The Sia community is guided by well laid out principles and it is not taking it easy on anyone trying to make the ASICs for Sia before first of all making the official announcement.
But someone that is not well conversant with the matter might be wondering why the community should be bothered. Doing things in an orderly way is good and starting by making the announcement in this particular case is important. It is the only best way to inform the various teams working on a similar thing so that they can decide better on what to do at any particular time. There are also customers that need to make their preorders and informing them through the announcement is the way to go.
The other thing that is a major disappointment for the community is the fact that Bitmain has all along indicated great willingness to foist negative externalities. It is clear beyond any reasonable cloud of doubt that Bitmain is rather defiant when it comes to the implementation of Segwit. This is seen as a sort of bad behavior and the community is not about to embrace it.
Sometime back, the lead developer at Sia proceeded to disclose that the Obelisk team had moved ahead to come up with a special feature with the capacity to allow them do a soft fork that would eventually see them succeed at invalidating Bitmain ASICs. However, there was need to empower the Obelisk miners in such a way that they would be able to work with it. At the moment, the community is still far from reaching the decision on whether or not use it.
