i'm listening to the Mining Panel video not once, but twice, to make sure i understand where they're coming from.
so far, the only miner who gets it is Sam Cole from KNC who understands that miners work for users and that bigger blocks will allow more tx's and Bitcoin growth. he also flat out states that miners are already free to choose which tx's go into blocks; IOW, they will exclude no fee tx's for the most part b/c they don't make any money on them. perfectly reasonable. he also flat out says they will filter what they think is spam. right there you see that the "spammer" FUD that miniblockists always throw around is a red herring attack that won't work.
the other interesting thing i gleaned from the panel is that Governing Dynamics is working at the miner level. they won't 51% attack b/c they are acutely aware that it will ruin Bitcoin, which is the last thing they want. otoh, it's very clear they want to hang onto as much power as they can get with 100.
i am somewhat surprised how relatively superficial they seem to understand Bitcoin from an economic and game theory standpoint, esp the Chinese miners. that last question at the end asking them if they've studied LN or other offchain proposals was met with silence and a statement from Bobby Lee that they are only concentrating on bitcoind right now. maybe that's why they have no clue what is going on with Blockstream machinations and appear to place great trust in core dev. someone needs to enlighten them.
finally, it's comforting to have heard absolutely nothing having been discussed that we here in this thread are not aware about. like i said above, it's just the opposite. i think the discussion we have here is way more advanced, complete, complex, and nuanced as to what Bitcoin is, how it functions, and what drives and motivates it's participants. sanity checks on what you don't know you don't know are always important.
