Since everyone was talking about fork has happened on Siacoin to readjust the difficulty and to introduce some changes. I will ask what kind of fork was this actually soft fork or hard fork because this is of my interest as well. I was away from this thread didn't catch what has been done.
Soft fork just update
Actually it is a hardfork: old versions of the client software (1.3.0) are incompatible with the new blocks being mined
Hello! What are the latest news about the company? What are the innovations? What is happening now?
Check the last tri-annual update, it includes some insights about the operational roadmap for this year:
https://blog.sia.tech/sia-triannual-update-september-december-2017-8afdf9c10325why did siacoin sell out to bitmain? :\ meh
What do you mean by "selling out to Bitmain"? The mining algorithm of Sia is public (all Sia is open source) so any manufacturer can design an ASIC for the coin.... unfortunately, because neither the developing team nor a great part of the community is happy with it. It was actually a very unwelcome and unfriendly movement of Bitmain.