Storage metrics look to be increasing nicely.

http://hyperstats.info/contracts

StrongU made a Blake2b ASIC for Sia, called the U2, before it knew that Sia was forking away to Blake2b-Sia. The fork made the U2 useless for Sia. But now StrongU has put a huge 1.4PH farm of the U2's on Hyperspace. You can see the farm at the top of miners listed at Luxor.

The U2 is the fastest Blake2b ASIC currently available, at 7TH.

With this new farm, the network hashrate for Hyperspace is now at an all-time high of 7.5PH and difficulty is at an all-time high of 3.5PH. StrongU's farm is the largest that has mined Hyperspace so far, by a factor of 3.

http://mining.luxor.tech/miners/SPACE/f9967c21bf9b51f4e9c7e543da72c0cb28fe73edc71bb60367ca59ebbf2ed8493e2b1d275714

https://strongu.com.cn/Home/Goods/goodsInfo/id/259.html

With Sia Prime calculating, in preparation for its airdrop, that some 34 SC addresses hold 57% of all SC, presumably all of these or nearly all being exchange wallets, I'm more convinced than ever that at least half of the ~3.7B SPACE airdropped were in exchange wallets and won't be claimed.

Of the half not in exchange wallets that could be claimed, I think no more than half ever will be claimed. This leads me to conclude that present circulating supply, including all coins mined to date (~906.6M) plus the 1/4 of the airdrop likely to be claimed, is only ~1.83B.

Compare to Sia's current supply of ~38B and this presents an attractive value proposition, with there being roughly 1/20th as many SPACE as SC currently circulating.

BiteBTC was quick enough to verify me partially, but I'm still waiting on the full verification, and haven't traded there yet. C-Patex and Safe.Trade seem solid so far.

For anyone new, HyperspaceGuide is a great resource with setup guides and answers to many questions.

https://hyperspace.guide/

My understanding is that lite wallets should pave the way for mobile apps, which I'm really excited about. Mobile video streaming is on the roadmap for next March.

https://trello.com/b/nrzksknR/hyperspace-feature-roadmap

https://hspace.app/roadmap

Inno S11 uses about the same wattage for about 5x the hash. They should be profitable even at 12 sats. But A3's no way.

Sounds about right. So an S11 should do around $5 / day.

XSC has its biggest trading day volume so far on c-patex. It is around 24 million. This is more than half of all the volume at c-patex today! Can't wait to see what happens when Sia forks off the miners on 10/31.

https://c-patex.com/markets/xscbtc#