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I suspect they'd be designing for datacenters rather than consumers. That's essentially what they already do with bitcoin rigs too. It's a rented mining cloud.


> It's a rented mining cloud.

That's not all it is. They do sell actual hardware as well, which you then run yourself.


Sure, that's entirely fair.


>rented mining cloud

Would you like to rephrase this to something more accurate?


What part do you consider inaccurate? You pay for hashes/s in their hardware pool. The phrasing seems pretty sufficient.

e.g. https://pool.viabtc.com/contract/


Hashnest is a similar service run by bitmain.

> Hashnest is a cloud hashing platform. This means you can participate in bitcoin mining without maintaining the hardware yourself.




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