I love how people just constantly ascribe bad intentions to NORMAL HARDWARE TESTS.

Of course they are going to test the hardware before selling it to a mass market. There are under no obligation to tell us what they mine, no more than you are obligated to tell me. They choose to publicly release the numbers, they are not hiding it. Also, bitmain has a known working relationship with the Bytom team and developed the first ASIC in concert with them so its a no brainer they would be supporting the network itself.