What has S9 hashes got to do with decentralizing? The chinese have already controlled half the mining market. Are there more sinister reasons for their statement?
In my opinion, it's actually a good statement. Antpool already controls like ~1/4 of the total network. Any S9's on the Hashnest market would only enlarge Antpool's share, since everything on Hashnest is pointed towards mining on Antpool.
So if they would incorporate S9's on Hashnest right now, they would be moving more towards centralizing rather than decentralizing. So shipping off S9's outside of Bitmain's influence, is a rather good thing when it comes to (de)centralizing
