I think we should not be happy about being over 80% just yet. Jihan may just let the prices go as high as possible even to last day and than just take the support away leaving us with hugely pumped litecoin. However I believe that Jihan can do this for so long, we need to improve our hashrates and that will eventually pass Jihans controlled amount which will result with him being out there holding his bags.
Thats pipe dream they know with current ASics Hardware out there plus what they are selling L3+ they have enough spare capacity to make sure 75% isn't hit if they dont' want to.
I have a buddy who's math says they have shot out 2,200 units so far...for their own use and ours that they are mining with our $$$ to stop seg witness and get
marke share of say 45% to kill it forever dead....so we are beyond screwed...4 buck coin again at best...imho.....they drive difficulty up....hold say 45% of the
mining....kill seg witness and keep asic boost ....and own 70% now and with no other mnfg going against them (they'd be crazy) now 100% of all pow scrypt machines made
more or less....
so all the $$ that would have been spread out over all users of LTC mining ..all congregate at the front end to bitmain..and then bitmain will do what it always does
make a batch of miners...fill data halls with them for months...drive up difficulty..and then IF they want to (L3 never made USA site as an example) after eating the whole
apple ..toss the core to us....meaning MAYBE if lucky and gamble you MIGHT make ROI in more then a year ..for your 'hobby' toy
So essentially bitmain owns pow scrypt...has killed seg witness and has provided a slap down to bitcoin core that they could do the same there...eventually...they
control that much equipment..and if asic boost ALWAYS gives you a 33% better return then everyone else and also you own (or soon) say 60-80% of all asic mining
pow scrypt and sha-256 and simply are gaining even more share ..watching the older stuff shuffle off the network NO other mnfg will ever compete with them and make
equip..the advantage is too large to overcome
you own all mining ..bitmain wins ...hell I guess this explains why bitcoin core devs were all freaked about miners having too much power huh?
only option for home miners is MAYBE GPU and X11 rigs...but imho the next thing bitmain will make in mass is X11 asics and take over that as well
its what I'd do going all 'evil empire' and all that
well I figured my knc titans and mining would be put in the old folks asic home (data hall) and just kinda die a slow over the months death...
guess a pillow to the face is quicker ....toast...
but got to admit as 'evil world class super villian plans go' this one was well thought out for months and done well....the amount they could make alone
speculating on price with what they knew they were gonna pull....sheesh
ah well, frigging needed a 'real life' anyway..going back to two baikal miners from 18 other units at the data hall won't be all bad (sob!)
ack! At least I should get dinner and some flowers and a movie before I'm frigging F*cked...I mean I BOUGHT 4 L3+'s to support seg witness
and bitmain is HOLDING them due to firmware issues...yeah right...they used my $$$ to probably make 8 units to mine for 2 months to stop
seg witnesss and no refunds....
ah well, it was a good run...you can't chase unicorns and win forever...eventually you will get 'gored' by that 'big ass horn' on their head
later