the entire reason diff is frozen is the big guys have all decided to freeze ph and lower power costs.
Are you claiming there is collusion between KNC and other big miners to freeze their market share ?
On the contrary … if you have a new 16nm 3d finfet high efficiency technology rolling out it would make sense to try to gain market share before others catch up.
I can see that raising profit as well, but also raising difficulty. If it's a way more efficient machine, wouldn't you want to weigh the profits of running the same ph at less wattage and maintaining difficulty vs raising the ph maintaining the same wattage and increasing difficulty to see which maximizes profit? The difficulty won't increase immediately but will catch up if you increase ph...
I'm thinking largescale miners will eventually have to start scaling down to the most efficiency vs most gain as rewards keep halving. I can't imagine it being cost effective to run all out full bore till the end of rewards when the only take will be transaction percentages.
