The hard fork will come into effect by the October 31st. Theres no plan to issue new coin. If somebody will do it, basing on the old network, the new coin might be issued but there are no guarantees that any exchange will support it.
I also get why a fork might draw a lot of attention but whats it really going to matter if the product isn't finished and user-friendly? Are there even real-life cases of sia being used other than for speculation?
yep without that and 7 out of 8 Siacoin miners in the world being 'non-obelisk' without that the orphan chain (or I suspect siacoin classic) would have better odds of survival. Harsh, but their decentralized cloud storage anonymous network at 10c to Amazon Clouds NON-anonymous centralized (they know you) at $1. Well w/o
their plan...the coin is no better than Garlicoin or any other sh*tcoin of dubious use.
Put up or shut up time. Siacoin will live or die by their network vision above. No, if's and's or but's. IMHO.
Brad