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BFL ASIC hosting at affiliate data centers could control bitcoin 50% hash rate (butterflylabs.com)
2 points by bitcoin-fool on April 21, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


BFL has affiliate data centers where those purchasing the more powerful BFL machines can have their systems hosted, for a fee.

The default option: "Your hosted units will be added to a mining farm and you will be paid out regularly based on their collective output." Datacenter and BFL personnel will be monitoring and maintaining the machines for defects. The hosting option makes sense for new untested hardware like this ...

So, it's likely the pools will control > 50% of the bitcoin hashrate at some point.




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