... the Chinese who dominate mining may not share our western noble ideals about Bitcoin. To them it´s probably just another milking cow.
It's another milking cow to us noble westerners too, BitFury being a western co. (Valery Vavilov, CEO -> dead giveaway).
Let's at least be honest with ourselves.
Yeah, and even better; they make the equipment. That´s always good business in any gold rush of course, providing the shovels, picks and such.