Or "He ... still actually has a bunch of mining capacity hidden away somewhere."
Oh. Would you look at that. Turns out that he did.
Believe it when we see it.
How's 2/3 of the network - up from considerable minority days ago.
https://cash.coin.dance/blocks/todayOh too late! You didn't close your eyes fast enough.
There is none so blind as he who refuses to see.
Ok. Where do you think that hashrate increase is coming from? They were previously mining BTC? Is it leased hashpower?
Well, it is a fascinating question. And one to which I have no ready answer. I can imagine a number of possibilities, but they'd all be idle speculation.
It is interesting how close to a BTC difficulty change the BCH fork and hash battle is occurring however. Provocative.
Let's speculate then. We don't have much else to do in the meantime.
Depending on where the hashrate is coming from they could or could not sustain the "bluff" for long. Even if what Craig said in the Tone Vays interview is true, Jihan exactly knows how much hashpower they do have in total.