The BUCK team continues to assess the optimal solution to the Antminer Z9 situation. The problem facing the Equihash community is that nobody in the community has an example of the Z9 yet. Accordingly we are unable to determine how to best thwart the Z9 now and going forward.

The BUCK team is absolutely committed to avoid a Z9 solution that would require constant whack-a-mole forking. The BUCK team is also committed to maintaining maximum compatibility with other Equihash coins going forward for a plethora of reasons.

Anyone interested in this issue should read this to learn the reality of the ASIC situation:

https://blog.sia.tech/the-state-of-cryptocurrency-mining-538004a37f9b