The issue here is not the core dev team (with regards to hashrate). The issue is that miners are not choosing to equally spread out hashing power. They consolidate on big pools because they think they will gain more profit. Maybe the mining community should help inform these miners. I have no ill-will with ocminer, he has a great pool. I am also not a miner so I have very little actual input on the subject.
Understood and I agree, yet here you say explicitly:
I agree. Majority hashrate only indicates the (remote) possibility of controlling the network.
I think as a core dev, you should encourage others to spread the mining hashpower and not agree with ocminer (who would only ever give a biased answer due to him making quite a bit of profit by having more than 50% of the hashpower) and distance youself from the issue. It's your baby too and you ought to make sure it won't get hurt
I remember even Ghash.io at one stage promised to disable registrations if the hashing power would go over 51% in their favor, so why not have a similar agreement here? Many miners in the Slack agree with this stance (unfortunately those are not the ones mining) so why not come to a mutual agreement somehow....or is greed really gonna dominate every aspect of the crypto-world?
Seeing the aggressive downplay/misinformation spread in this thread about 51% attacks would make me somewhat uneasy in the long-term, especially when they come from the person who is holding over 50% of the entire hashing power on his pool for weeks on end, but we all gotta decide for ourselves...