I am in the process of setting up a modest mining operation.

I would like to find a US-based data center that will maintain the miners, connections, etc.

However, I would like to have remote access to the machines and be able to direct whether they mine with a pool, mine solo, or sell hashpower through a broker such as Nicehash.

I may also mine some alts but that is a topic for another section of the forum.

Any suggestions for mining focused data centers that meet these criteria?

Some key services are melting down due to the high demand.

Coinbase is very slow.

The Coincap App (shapeshift)  is non-responsive.

It took a while to log in to BFX, but once I got in it was fine.


... or am I the only one having problems?

If it can hold above $1000, I predict a run toward to ATH.

I would prefer to see some consolidation here, but I'll trade the market as it is (not selling yet).

Shapeshift is currently conducting a bridge funding round (convertible note) through Funders Club.

It's an attractive investment.  Already there have been two rounds of seed funding.

As of February of this year, the company is profitable.

Investors participating in this round include BitFinex, Digital Currency Group, and founder Erik Voorhees.

Kurt Dalton, Max Keiser, Michael Gucci, and Roger Ver participated in the seed rounds.

I suggest doing DD as a potential investment if you qualify as an accredited investor or as a representative of an appropriate institution.

https://fundersclub.com/shapeshift/

(No, I don't work for Shapeshift or Funders Club.  I'm just a run-of-the-mill angel investor.)

Over the past year, BTC/USD price has not correlated strongly to other asset classes or currencies.

It does, however, appear to function at times as a liquidity indicator, of large-scale flows of capital into and out of risky assets.

The Hearn break in BTC earlier this week coincided with a washout in global equity markets.

The subsequent bounce presaged a recovery in equity prices.

As the trading week concluded, BTC broke below 400 again, and similarly, the CAD, SGD, and NZD all pulled back, and the rally faded in many stocks.

There are similar relationships to be observed during the run-up in late '13, the rally in July '15 and collapse in Aug '15, the rally in Dec '15.

I'd like to discuss/explore BTC/USD price as an indicator of broader liquidity (perhaps useful as a speculation tool) or simply economic confidence/sentiment (thus useful for market timing).