satoshis_sockpuppet said: nChains hashpower is a fly speck compared to bitmain. How could they get their will? Click to expand...

nChain hold the ace card, Bitman is doing an IPO, they are on best behaviour, making positive ROI decisions. I find it unluckily they would try to explain negative ROI mining decisions to their new investors during an IPO and call it strategic. Bitmain also has no motivation to limit the network capacity to 1MB or 32MB.If Bitmain were to forgo profit in a hash contest, it would give the investors reason to justify their underbidding and devalue their IPO.In the situation where the BCH price drops the responsible thing for Bitmain to do is move the hashrate to the BTC chain.__This controversial uncertainty is one of the biggest drives for the investment hype cycle. This surrounding uncertainty when resolved could trigger the next hype cycle.Changing the 32MB limit illustrates we can change the limit during a controversy, this is an advantageous feature over the BTC chain.It proves that miners are prepared to take responsibility to guard the network while improving it without depending on externally dictated safety limits that they have little control over and are hard to change.Higher on chain transaction capacity invites businesses to use BCH addressing the Fidelity Problem.A limit outside of the network's capacity should be the default. We need miners to plan for peak capacity and those that predict market demand are rewarded. An artificially constrained limit, limits capacity planning, and then justifies keeping the limit. (we have empirical evidence of this with the BTC chain,) BCH, when it grows, will suck the BTC hashrate over to the BCH chain and could suffer the same fate again.After we have removed the 32MB limit, there will be a new theoretical maximum limit that no other blockchain can boast, this is excellent marketing material, build it, and they will come.The network capacity is not dictated by a transaction limit, the hardware deployed on the network dictates it, miners cannot exceed the laws of physics. However, all they can do is respond to supply and demand. Miners had historically reacted appropriately to supply and demand until they have a conflict of interests as seen when the transaction limit allowed them to extract higher rents by doing nothing.The only negative result that I can predict when removing the limit is the inability to extract rent when that limit is reached, consequently there is no negative cost to removing the limit.So I think the winds are in nChain's favour moving forward. As an investor, I want them the miners to remove the limit.