They will put a target at a maximum of 1.5x the total hash rate available now for Sia, which is about 10Ph/s and maybe even lower than, I mean, you can't be dumb enough to risk a force adjustment and end up with a stalled chain again....
They're not using SIA's hashfunction: their (presumably rigged) selection selected blake2b. Sia previously hardforked to move off blake2b to blake2b-sia. I think the goldshell miners you mentioned are blake2b-sia only though there are blake2b asics from before the sia hardfork (and I think some other altcoins).
As far as it being on-topic, the split issues e.g. fork point, replay protection or lack there of are of interest, particularly as we may need to give advice on how to not lose your bitcoins dumping this stuff assuming it ever gets any exchange support or a market price.
On that subject: they're going with the original fork point so it launched without any replay protection at all, and it sounds like they're going to only implement one-way optional replay protection with a specific and express goal of disrupting bitcoin users. Of course, this greatly increases the odds that it never has meaningful economic value or exchange adoption.
A discussion on how to avoid loosing coins may be appropriate in the
BTC sections. Probably start the post with a guide or two on how to do it and then options and help. But, not anything else all this discussion although enjoyable should be in the alt section.
As I said Greg, you are a better person then me. Let the 110 people loose it all.
I don't care anymore. Let the 110 users loose everything and live homeless under a bridge.
As for the blake2b, yeah the original ASICs for that are probably 8+ years old at this point with some newer ones coming out over the years. One of them be it luke or one of his people probably got a great deal from someplace on them since at this point they really are only used for some tiny worthless alts. Which when you think about it is what 110 is.
Enjoy the weekend all. Go outside, touch some grass, relax. It's been a week since they forked off, 110 is now just a zombie corpse, let the 110 supporters spend the weekend posting memes on X and Reddit. We don't really have to think about them anymore.
-Dave