Sia Official Fork Guide Hard Fork scheduled for October 31

The Sia network hard forked to reject all ASICs on the network except for the Obelisk miner. This article will detail what you need to do to get you acclimated to the Sia ecosystem.

The hard fork requires upgrading Sia to v1.3.6.

Timeline

Software Release

Sia 1.3.6 target release date October 15

Sia 1.3.6 is not available yet

Annotation: Sia 1.3.6 has been released

Hard fork has been implemented

The hard fork will be implemented on October 31. The exact block height will be listed soon.

Annotation: The block height has been confirmed to be 179000

If you hold Siacoin

Store in our official wallet

We have always recommended keeping your Siacoin in the official wallet, Sia-UI, where you control your private keys. When the hard fork is implemented on October 31st, your updated version 1.3.6 of Sia will immediately give you access to the new chain, and you can use all your Siacoins.

Annotation: In short: Use the latest official Sia-UI and keep your private key safe.

If a person or group decides to maintain the original chain, you can use their chain’s coins there as well.

Annotation: If you hold Sia, you can share the candies of other forked coins

Store on an exchange

When exchanges update their wallets, you will now have the same amount of coins on the new Sia chain.

These coins are available:

Trade with exchanges that also use the new chain. We hope they all will.

Purchase storage from hosts that also use the new chain. We expect this to be the majority of hosts.

But you can’t access Siacoins on the old chains unless the exchange you’re using decides to support the old chains or give you access to them.

Note: You may not get forked coin candies if you put it on the exchange. Please contact the exchange you trade on and keep an eye on the exchange announcements

If you store your files on Sia

Please make sure to upgrade to v1.3.6 before October 31st. Doing so ensures that you can continue uploading data to your master on the new fork.

You do have a little flexibility here - because Sia has built-in repair mechanisms to keep your data healthy - so being a few days late won't cause you much stress.

If you host data on Sia

Hosts should absolutely upgrade their Sia version to 1.3.6 before October 31st. If you fail to upgrade via a hard fork, all tenants who have upgraded will stop having contracts with you.

If you mine Siacoin

Using Obelisk Miner

You will need to update your firmware. Obelisk will release firmware updates that comply with the new mining algorithm introduced in Sia v1.3.6.

Use any other ASIC

Other ASIC mining hardware can still support mining on the original chain's currency. (Translator's note: Other mining machines will not be able to mine Sia after the hard fork)

Graphics card miners can continue to mine after the fork, all they need is to update the proof-of-work algorithm in the software they use.

If you are an exchange trading Siacoin

Simply update to v1.3.6 of the software before October 31st. Once you do that, your exchange will be able to support it after the hard fork.

Original article: https://support.sia.tech/article/kwadovujkr-sia-fork-oct-31-2018

Sia-UI: http://sia.tech/get-started Official wallet