BCH to openly establish a cartel that directs 12.5% of all block rewards to a developer fund. The cartel will orphan any blocks that don't donate. Signed by the four largest pools: http://BTC.Top , Antpool, ViaBTC, and http://Bitcoin.com . https://medium.com/@jiangzhuoer/infrastructure-funding-plan-for-bitcoin-cash-131fdcd2412e
First of all, this has no immediate impact on users. It's not a protocol change. This is between miners.

It does affect BTC miners indirectly because of the shared mining algorithm. A lower BCH reward => more hashrate will be allocated to BTC in the short-term => lower ROI.
There's an underexplored aspect of this, namely what BTC miners will do about this. In an abstract sense, it is an attack on the bottom line of all SHA256 miners.

It is in their best interest that the block reward of *all* SHA256 chains is as large as possible, not just on BTC.
So if SHA256 miners disagree that this move maximizes the SHA256 pie, they could, in turn, allocate their hashpower to BCH and orphan all blocks by the cartel.

The mining market can absolutely resolve this situation on its own!
That being said, the BCH pools do this *because* they think it will grow BCH and hence the SHA256 pool (of block rewards.)

This is not unrealistic at all. Directing some of the rewards to development funding could absolutely make the pie bigger. They see this as an investment.
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