Are you trolling or you just didn't read my message? It's not a matter of naive or not naive, math doesn't lie, hashrate can't be hidden. You repeat yet again that Sia had a "steady rise in hashrate" "months before bitmain...". THAT IS NOT TRUE
From: https://siastats.info/mining
A3s batch 1 sold on Jan 18th. So, tell me, how in hell bimain "mined with them for months before selling them"? The entire Sia network hashrate was equivalent to only a few A3s before end of Jan.
It is likely that Bitmain had some engineering samples mining for a while - but the numbers don't support them having MASS deployed them to mine with prior to their sale announcements on the A3 OR the X3.
A shortage of FLASH to make SSDs with might affect pricing some, but it's not going to affect mining much - we're already having GPU shortage issues that are much worse after all.