The awkward Sia fork

On Monday, I wrote about conflicts of interest. Since then, I caught up on Nebulous/ Sia's controversial decision to hard-fork their network to brick third-party ASIC miners (Innosilicon and Bitmain).

Couldn't have asked for a better example of conflicts of interest.

A brief summary of events:

• Mid-2015: a company, Nebulous, launched the Sia network--a file…