I just acquired the domain the other day. The name for the service had not been determined until very recently. I took suggestions from people and the 'cloudsmash' name was deemed the best fit. As stated in a previous message, I am still looking for help with a web front end development. Would you like to volunteer?

So far I have received 6 beta applications. I forgot to mention how many I would be accepting, I should be able to do a total of 50 applicants at this time, 44 openings left. It all depends on what resources you actually want, but 44 is a pretty good estimate.

So far these have been pretty good questions, keep them coming!

Just like your typical cloud provider, each server we are providing has been configured to be as reliable as possible with ecc memory, bonded networking, double parity storage, dual power supplies, ups and generator. The additional off-site redundancy is an extra layer of fault tolerance that is above and beyond what most cloud providers offer. Getting that kind of feature transparently relieves the user from having to manually implement it themselves (drbd, rsync, etc).

Without off-site redundancy hardware failure results in your virtual machine going offline. I've had this happen to my own vm's with multiple main stream providers. When the provider resolves the issue your instance is brought back online. Then you could re-evaluate if that provider is meeting your expectations. If not just migrate to another provider seamlessly with no downtime. Migration time would depend on the volume of data being transferred to the alternative provider.

The real potential for instance failure is fairly low, but not impossible. If the provider failed to meet their advertised SLA, then a portion of your rental fee would be refunded.

When a hardware contributor's machine boots it has to download and start the operating system, authenticate, join the fabric and mount the disks with the proper encryption keys. This process currently takes about 10 minutes.

In terms of the additional cost, if you replicate data offsite and reserve capacity for your instance in case of failure. Then you are utilizing double the resources, so it's double the price. You would have the ability to choose both your primary and secondary provider. There is technically no limit to the number of off-site replicates that you can have. You choose your level of fault tolerance and only pay for what you determine to be sufficient.

In this first beta round we are supplying all of the hardware and the prices are set at very reasonable initial levels. During the second round when people are invited to contribute their own servers then everyone sets their own prices. It all comes down to if you can offer a similar resource for a price competitive enough for someone to be interested in renting it.

In bitcoin terms, this is almost exactly like sites like miningrigrentals.com where mining rigs are listed by price and you select based on their reputation, rental history and mining rig performances. All of those factors dictate what a fair asking price is.

Here's a list to see what I mean;

https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/sha256

To answer your question about the physical security of the system;

- All of the information is encrypted on the disks.
- The encryption keys are not stored in memory or on the disks.
- The operating system only exists in memory and is stateless, reboot and it's gone.
- Fabric is authenticated, a system can be forcefully removed from the fabric and it would be unable to rejoin
- If you reboot it you only end up with drives containing encrypted data.
- If you pulled a drive while it was running you would only end up 1/6 of the data and that would be encrypted to.
- You can't monitor communications because the only traffic in and out of the box is encrypted as well.
- There are forms of memory encryption and compression at play as well, so rebooting another OS to read ram won't help you either.
- The kernel was compiled with minimal hardware support and drivers, no external busses at all (usb, firewire, serial, etc)

There are some additional attack vectors of concern. There is an active effort to address those as well.

Thanks for the kind words.

I updated the original post with a revised description of the service based on feedback that I received. I hope it's easier to understand now.

Does anyone have any questions about the new write up?

I am announcing a new service, I'll continue to update the parent page.

There are paying customers who have been using this platform for over a year. I'm now willing to accept more customers from a more general audience.

To answer your question about hops before joining a destination, it depends where your starting from. I have peering points in Seattle, Dallas, New Jersey and Washinton DC. I'm always on the look out for new peering partners, the goal is to peer in as many places as possible. Each peering point adds a point of redundancy and further distributes traffic, so the more the better. When traffic enters a peering point it is encrypted and the data is forwarded over our SDN fabric. The encryption is end to end from the peering point all the way to the hypervisor hosting your virtual machine. The network is fully peer to peer and self healing, if a peer is unable to communicate directly it will relay off an intermediate.

IPv6 is currently functional, but only unicast out of Seattle at the moment. Enabling Anycast mobility on IPv6 is on the todo list.

I use a technique like TRESOR to keep the king ring master out of main memory. I know it isn't a perfect solution and still susceptible to DMA based attacks. Right now though, it's better than nothing. Kernel hardening is yet another area of continued development.

I specifically designed everything to enable high availability features transparently to a virtual machine. In the event of an outage your machine could be live migrated to the location where you have your block storage replicated. All with zero down time and no interruption of traffic flow and no changes to assigned IP addresses.

I built a decentralized virtual machine platform in an effort to deliver the cloud that I had envisioned when I first heard the term.

This is an open platform and anyone can participate. Just like any other cloud provider, consumers can buy virtual machines and block storage. On this platform however you can also sell virtual machine instances and block storage as a contributor of server hardware. We act as the Internet service provider and supply the networking glue that makes it possible for a server sitting in your house, garage or datacenter to route publicly accessible IPv4/6 addresses over our encrypted network fabric.

We make money by taking a small commission on sales and by charging for IP transit and address space. We are responsible for building out a global network of peering points and handling IP prefix advertisement for thousands of public and private network fabrics. NOC support and abuse reports are handled no differently than any other ISP and abusive participants can be banned from the fabric, individual IP addresses can be null routed.

Consumers creating new virtual machines can search for providers based on hardware features and historical metrics for reputation, uptime,  cpu, memory, iops, latency and throughput. If a contributor has to take their server offline then all consumer virtual machines and block storage can be live migrated to any server connected to our fabric with no downtime.

Contributors net boot our Linux distribution using a bootable USB key. Upon booting a unique identity is created and registers with our system. Our web administration interface allows you to claim these servers and bind them to your account. Then you determine if you want the server to be part of your own private cloud fabric or if you want anyone to be able to rent your resources on the public cloud fabric. You can also choose to do both, have your own private cloud but also monetize your under utilized servers and rent your excess capacity to the public.

Over the last year a few dozen people have been helping me test this platform during it's development. I've received positive feedback and it's time to invite the public to submit applications for the first phase of our beta round. Core services are production ready and battle tested but subject to a more frequent maintenance cycle. Once we enter the second phase of beta testing we will be accepting applications for server contributors.

You can submit beta applications and other questions to the following;

decentralizedvpscloud@gmail.com

I'm looking for help with continued development. If you feel you could contribute to this project, please contact me at the address listed above. I plan on accepting applications for full time positions in the near future.

Please comment, I'm looking for feedback.

The goal of this project is to bring the "mining" model to the virtualization space and encourage anyone, including existing cloud providers put servers on our fabric and openly compete in a free market. Running our distribution eliminates all of the configuration and time required to setup a sophisticated cloud infrastructure and significantly lowers the barrier of entry to becoming a cloud provider. Anyone with a good server and fast unlimited internet can boot, register and list their server resources for rent in under 5 minutes. Your only responsibility is to make sure it stays connected and powered on and offer prices that are competitive with similar offerings.

To seed the initial network, we have setup seven locations;

Portland, OR
Fremont, CA
Kansas City, MO
Ashburn, VA
San Juan, PR
Amsterdam, NL
Tokyo, JP


Each location has a variety of servers on dedicated 1 Gbps fiber that can easily achieve gigabit speeds to their peering points. Hypervisors in each location communicate over bonded Ethernet at 20 Gbps. Our Fremont, CA site is at a Hurricane Electric datacenter with a 10 Gbps uplink directly into their global backbone.

These servers represent our initial fabric capacity and I plan to add 2 to 3 more servers in 2 or 3 more locations as the need arrises. The resources total as of right now;

- 3000+ cpu cores
- 20 tb+ of memory
- 1 pb+ of disk
- 10 tb+ of pci-e nvme ssd

Here are some features that differ from typical services;

- Decentralized - Don't think presence in a dozen locations, think servers in thousands of locations all over the globe.
- Globally Routed - Continually growing our peering relationships and setting up traffic relays all over the world.
- Anycast Enabled - Your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses stay the same regardless of your location in the fabric.
- Self Healing - Fabric will automatically relay through other neighboring nodes to bypass Internet outages.
- Encrypted - Encrypted from the edge routers to the hypervisor, even LAN traffic between servers is encrypted.
- Mobility - Request a live migration to any other server location with zero downtime, same IP.
- Encrypted Storage - All customer data is encrypted at rest, keys are not kept on disk or in memory.
- Snapshots - Take a live snapshot of your disk image and roll back changes to a known state.
- Disaster Recovery - Have your data automatically replicated to one or more other server locations.
- High Availability - Incremental replication enables fast instance migration or restart with large offsite datasets.
- Routing Policies - Choose peering points to send traffic through with custom ECMP policies or keep it automatic.

Here are some features I'm still working on;

- Blockchain Orchestration - Send bitcoin/tokens to an address to create instance, destroy on zero balance.
- Autonomous Hypervisors - Hypervisors that don't allow any login at all, lock out everyone including ourselves.
- Customer Migrations - Customers can initiate a live migration to any other server location.
- Bring Your Own IP - Create private network that utilize the our global network fabric to advertise your own prefix.
- Customer Keys - Customer provided encryption keys for storage or private network communications.
- Public Servers - Allow anyone to contribute capacity to the platform in the form of dedicated baremetal servers.
- Auditing - Open source distribution and configuration for professional and public audit.

Initial pricing during the beta period is;

- $1 / 1 shared vcpu
- $1 / 1 anycast ipv4 address
- $1 / 1 gb of ecc ram
- $1 / 16 gb of pci-e nvm-e ssd
- $1 / 128 gb of double parity fault tolerant disk
- $1 / 250 gb of internet data transfer

For example;

- 1 vcpu ($1) + 1 gb ram ($1) + 16 gb ssd ($1) + ipv6 ($0) + ipv4 nat ($0) = $3/month

- 1 vcpu ($1) + 1 gb ram ($1) + 16 gb ssd ($1) + ipv6 ($0) + ipv4 ($1) + 250 gb transit ($1) = $5/month

- 2 vcpu ($2) + 2 gb ram ($2) + 32 gb ssd ($2) + 128 gb disk ($1) + ipv4 ($1) + 1 tb transfer ($4) = $12/month

As we setup more peering arrangements our bandwidth cost should come down the cost should come down drastically. Only internet ingress and egress count towards data transfer accounting. All internal traffic is unmetered and free of charge, even if the traffic spans different locations. All instances receive public IPv6 addresses free of charge. Instances without a public IPv4 address are given private addresses in the 100.64.0.0/10 CGNAT range and have no data transfer limits, both internally between instances and externally to the Internet.

Pricing for highly available instances depends on the level of redundancy. So if you want your data replicated in to exist in 3 different locations then your price is simply triple the single instance price. If a location suddenly goes offline your instance can be restarted on closest location that has your replicated data. If failure is eminent your instance will be live migrated with no downtime.

Future contributors would probably like to know what kind of hardware requirements to expect;

The the current minimum;

- x86-64 architecture and 8GB of memory
- Internet connection that supports UDP (NAT ok, no public IP required, EasyTether on LTE works!)
- Hardware that supports virtualization extensions
- UNDI capable network card
- Ability to boot from USB
- No external peripherals (usb, firewire, etc)

These are optional, but highly recommended;

- Hardware that supports AES-NI, AVX or AVX2 - Due to all of the encryption it would be pretty slow without them.
- ECC Memory - People debate it, but I sleep better at night knowing it's there.
- High Speed Internet - Try to avoid slow upstream connections. Symmetric gigabit fiber is ideal.
- Redundant Internet - Dual WAN connections can help avoid losing contracts due to Internet downtime.
- Unlimited Internet - Don't get slammed for data overage, pick a provider who won't limit you.
- NVMe PCI-e SSD - Achieve the highest customer density when utilizing high iops, high throughput SSD's.
- 6 disks or more - Additional parity/mirroring configurations will be available in the future.
- LSI2008 - This is what we are using now, so if you want to assured compatibility, use this.
- 10 GbE LAN - More than one server in a single location? It would be advisable to go 10 GbE.
- Dedicated Bypass - Direct ethernet connections between servers will utilize the direct link first.

All pricing is subject to change, I only expect prices to go down. Eventually when we come out of beta, pricing will follow the free market as contributors will be able to set their price and compete with other contributing cloud providers on a level playing field.

Just use mineral oil and a radiator and blow a fan through it like everyone elser. The only reason they use the Novec fluid is due to the low boiling point which they are using to help aid in a refrigeration cycle (condense, expand, condense)

The bitcoin calculator would be nice with the block value updated to 12.5 from the current 25 since the halving has now taken place.

//     block_value = 25;
     block_value = 12.5;

Thanks!

Put me down for 2.8

JeffColo is in the process of building a 3 MW modular data center park

Big or small, everyone pays the same low rate of $65/kW-month month-to-month

No setup fee's and no pre-payment required to get a discounted hosting rate

The first modules should be available in the first week or two of September 2017. The plan is to have all 12 modules online by the end of the year.

Each Module Features

- 250 kW (800A 3P 208V DELTA) (4 x 200A Meters)
- 16 x 60A 3P 208V PDU's
- Low Latency Symmetrical Gigabit Fiber (<1ms)
- Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle Containment
- Incoming Air Filtration
- Air Side Economizer ( 62F - 82F Avg, 87F Max )
- Evaporative Cooling (Optional)

About Our Power

Our power comes from the Bonneville Power Administration, here is their resource mix;

https://www.bpa.gov/p/Generation/Fuel-Mix/FuelMix/BPA-Official-Fuel-Mix-2016.pdf

Hosting Plans

In addition to traditional hosting of individual miners we want to start offering hosting packages where you become a direct customer of our local utility. You would receive a dedicated power delivery service and utility meter. You pay the utility directly and merely rent the space and infrastructure from us on a month-to-month basis.

Paying the utility directly makes sure you are only paying for the power you use and never paying for power during unexpected downtime, software crashes, planned maintenance, RMA's, etc. People have asked if we could bill by the kWh, unfortunately the current regulations seem to indicate that if we install sub-metering on a customer by customer basis it would define our business as a federally regulated utility. We want to avoid that.

This is the best way to meet our customers needs and also offers a level of utility rate transparency currently not available from any of our competitors. Plus, there are some additional perks; The local utility currently accepts most major credit cards. This is excellent if your trying to get a little kick back in regards to cash back, miles, etc. Paying the utility directly also assures that you are paying the lowest possible price if rates change in your advantage. Additionally, our state is one of the few states without a sales tax. So there will be no local taxes added to your hosting or utility bill.

Hosting Rates

- Shared Module -> $65/kW-month [ < 60 kW ]
- Dedicated Rack -> $2000/month + Direct Utility Payment [ ~ 60 kW ]
- Private Module -> $7500/month + Direct Utility Payment [ 250 kW ]

Hosting Fee's

- No setup costs of any kind
- No cost for reboots during business hours (unless abused, >1 reboot per day is abuse of the policy)
- Pack it up and ship it out fee of $20/miner for re-packaging and drop off with shipping carrier (customer provides shipping labels)

Additional services available

- Full suite of VPS solutions
- Dedicated customer VLAN's
- Cost effective geo-diverse redundant data storage
- Colocation of traditional rack mount servers

Payments

- PayPal (3% Added Fee)
- Bitcoin (No Fee, Coinbase Exchange Rates)

You can ship directly to us from the manufacturer, we'll pick it up at FedEx (preferred) and have it up and running as quickly as possible.

Current Availability

We are accepting capacity reservations for new clients. I will be updating the list below every couple of weeks to reflect our current capacity.

10/20/2016 abbfa276932c6152a7f44901f3b2f2dd  -              5 x S9     6.75 kW
12/24/2016 3a08c64822bd8f0050cbe604bd3d4c40  -             40 x GPU    40.00 kW
04/01/2017 2c304367d01c3ee9272055bfb5fd282c  -                30 x GPU    30.00 kW
05/15/2017 1711528beaf89302a7dee25e304231c7  -            2 x RACK      135.00 kW
05/23/2017 79af43b0217a5ca9d0fd15a11c640f47  -              2 x L3+     1.70 kW
06/02/2017 e98153151332cd312fbb370db4a2efdd  -       20 x GPU    20.00 kW
06/18/2017 141e4f0dfa6c640827ba77fa7a37312d  -        3 x L3+     2.55 kW
06/18/2017 141e4f0dfa6c640827ba77fa7a37312d  -        1 x L3     0.45 kW
06/18/2017 141e4f0dfa6c640827ba77fa7a37312d  -        3 x Baikal     1.15 kW
06/19/2017 3eba7b16400334582f426a46a04404a6  -              1 x L3+     0.85 kW
06/22/2017 46a69928daeb5e93654cf793b1a53c27  -           5 x L3+     4.25 kW
06/23/2017 1711528beaf89302a7dee25e304231c7  -           2 x RACK   135.00 kW
07/20/2017 e7fd50aa2fbb6da143262d7c9b26800e  -        2 x S9     2.70 kW
07/20/2017 e7fd50aa2fbb6da143262d7c9b26800e  -        4 x L3+       3.40 kW
07/20/2017 ed88aa41e61635d3332f8f0734aecf77  -             10 x L3+     8.50 kW
07/20/2017 3746552fe0573d2c1030226ae3f01a18  -           5 x A4     3.00 kW
07/22/2017 602dc0d36e98287d50064667824fee80  -              5 x L3+     4.25 kW
07/22/2017 602dc0d36e98287d50064667824fee80  -              3 x D3     3.90 kW
07/22/2017 13af5c01ab5f507b967098a9b3ae6495  -           3 x L3+     2.55 kW
07/22/2017 13af5c01ab5f507b967098a9b3ae6495  -           2 x D3     1.35 kW
07/25/2017 9a356714d579b9d254e16e2786f98bf6  -             18 x GPU    14.00 kW
07/26/2017 fbe1371c1b0ea1129717d011e28e9c74  -              3 x A741     1.80 kW
07/31/2017 5abc3eddeb320016fbc3edc07f6b3e62  -                 5 x D3      6.50 kW
08/02/2017 2049ea92bfc246da92c4165fe0a89c54  -              3 x L3+     2.55 kW
08/02/2017 662541d7f10f453ea3022e10fcfa7f72  -              4 x A4     2.08 kW
08/05/2017 38fc6c50a406667116719a16d84d8eba  -              2 x MODULE   500.00 kW
08/06/2017 9c0ba570761e0d793346f6f907135c66  -           6 x S9     8.10 kW
08/07/2017 2b0cba27f26d7ac0c8bcca5e631f0c92  -           2 x MODULE   500.00 kW
08/08/2017 795bf3d211f2f543c735bf20c1bd5459  -           1 x S9     1.35 kW
08/12/2017 3543d91c01d21f23aaddab461193ddf7  -           1 x GPU     1.10 kW *
08/12/2017 dbb51b0c9554bad5fc68d6b5db53107e  -           5 x L3+     4.25 kW
08/13/2017 68e51f2e211121f4bdfa45194a6b7ccd  -           8 x D3    12.00 kW
08/13/2017 3bdbf2364432c07f060e806708a5ccd8  -             24 x D3     32.00 kW
08/14/2017 d6ef8966a39a2c08a855c77efc60a3ed  -                 ? x ?        4.50 kW
08/15/2017 b60c22972403aef688b999a1ddacb11c  -              2 x A741     1.20 kW
08/17/2017 46a69928daeb5e93654cf793b1a53c27  -           3 x D3          4.05 kW
08/17/2017 df294649ccf03593ef7685e0dc6056f4  -              3 x L3+     2.55 kW
08/18/2017 6f8d1e95d527586a2b82fa7416adae4b  -              6 x D3     8.10 kW
08/19/2017 a955d9fb7f77d7695eeafd4be459b8a2  -             10 x S9    13.50 kW
08/20/2017 dbaf93dbbb217f684bf72642f46ffae5  -              1 x L3+     0.85 kW
08/21/2017 00d46ef8805abdb75fc811c7ace144b3  -          70 x GPU    70.00 kW
08/21/2017 99b7b9fab7be337a16c17b4f5cd19a2b  -             10 x D3    13.50 kW
08/21/2017 d1a55ca3e7092b2002d13763d23650dc  -              5 x L3+     4.25 kW
08/22/2017 e22e4491ec83b2501690eb227b5e429a  -            125 x L3+   106.25 kW
08/22/2017 e22e4491ec83b2501690eb227b5e429a  -             15 x D3    20.25 kW
08/22/2017 e22e4491ec83b2501690eb227b5e429a  -             10 x A5    10.00 kW ??
08/22/2017 e22e4491ec83b2501690eb227b5e429a  -             30 x S9    40.50 kW
08/22/2017 e22e4491ec83b2501690eb227b5e429a  -             30 x T9    37.50 kW
08/24/2017 6e495e0b656808a130a71b71215ffca2  -          50 x D3    67.50 kW
08/24/2017 abec1885f1b1468761277cee4588fdef  -                 ? x ?        0.00 kW
08/25/2017 3bdbf2364432c07f060e806708a5ccd8  -             20 x PandaGPU    17.00 kW
08/25/2017 3bdbf2364432c07f060e806708a5ccd8  -             20 x D3    27.00 kW
08/25/2017 2ed985d80360da776967e592beb53507  -              2 x S9/D3/L3+   7.10 kW
08/28/2017 40319692ff4c8788a26d07dbd187a9d1  -                 2 x L3+     1.70 kW
08/29/2017 b90c341d7c84c89c27752c9d9d2b4de6  -           6 x L3+     5.10 kW
08/29/2017 628d9811cf907469145ddebe94e39e84  -             20 x L3+    17.00 kW - Immediate Need
08/30/2017 2c6a4e567580901b04096dea2094497f  -          15 x L3+    12.75 kW
08/30/2017 2c6a4e567580901b04096dea2094497f  -           7 x Giant2k      3.15 kW
09/01/2017 2e76e6bf1288ee9f7e5dce7fdffaab69  -              1 x S9     1.30 kW
09/01/2017 25eeeec614fa623171ac860c1d520bd4  -           3 x L3+     2.40 kW
09/01/2017 25eeeec614fa623171ac860c1d520bd4  -           4 x D3     4.80 kW
09/02/2017 14cf845885b4e8061f8ec15e890e18f0  -        1 x PandaGPU     0.85 kW
09/02/2017 a4011af0598fe2577a3e14041c93ec02  -             12 x L3+    10.20 kW
09/03/2017 916ac32b81f716788170031ee5a1b418  -              3 x D3     3.90 kW
09/03/2017 0aa2b8864ee07366a8f4971fe852695f  -      650 x S9   999.00 kW
09/04/2017 eeabe2351259eae45e5c2808154331e9  -           3 x A741     3.45 kW
09/05/2017 1e00e5f640affa96b685b2cce171b904  -           2 x S9     2.60 kW
09/05/2017 07daac6c5fb843c27877a67ae2a6b120  -              1 x L3+     0.85 kW
09/05/2017 c7395aa6f751248e7657696c0568e323  -             39 x L3+    33.15 kW
09/05/2017 207686fdb1be9c1ba854e8ac54e2e411  -              3 x L3+     2.55 kW
09/06/2017 5510a71585c6a17500c3b1b77df827c4  -                 3 x D3     3.90 kW
09/06/2017 5510a71585c6a17500c3b1b77df827c4  -                 1 x L3+     0.85 kW
09/07/2017 d074a6a461b232c7fbd305a971e88454  -           9 x D3    12.20 kW
09/07/2017 d074a6a461b232c7fbd305a971e88454  -           4 x L3+    12.20 kW
09/07/2017 d0227dabb843124024e0a96a3569fe25  -                10 x GPU    10.00 kW
09/07/2017 e98153151332cd312fbb370db4a2efdd  -               20 x GPU        20.00 kW
09/08/2017 afb0003647f401a85ede5a6aeec76daa  -             12 x D3    15.60 kW
09/08/2017 fec07f4e530b6ecb56252a2737c3ebe5  -          22 x L3+    18.70 kW
09/11/2017 8f83b479429b32254bffd762ad6ada88  -          60 x A741    72.00 kW
09/13/2017 722f2b0bff8fb3518117bb941417c599  -              5 x S9     7.00 kW
09/13/2017 722f2b0bff8fb3518117bb941417c599  -              4 x L3+     3.40 kW
09/16/2017 eeabe2351259eae45e5c2808154331e9  -           3 x A741     3.45 kW
09/19/2017 9095b0106275060aa10e3ee6b1057d2b  -           3 x D3     4.00 kW
09/19/2017 1fada500444fdb10e630ba3426d4a02e  -           ? x ??    62.00 kW
09/19/2017 fd917360d2fc28632201600464796ee1  -          10 x D3    13.50 kW
09/20/2017 8b2441db4f93dfbba42900dfd1da4725  -       21 x S9    30.00 kW
09/20/2017 8b2441db4f93dfbba42900dfd1da4725  -        5 x L3+     4.30 kW
09/20/2017 8b2441db4f93dfbba42900dfd1da4725  -       29 x D3    38.00 kW
09/21/2017 48f53e214619ccd20ce605614a4e81f7  -             2 x S9     2.60 kW
09/21/2017 48f53e214619ccd20ce605614a4e81f7  -             4 x D3      4.80 kW
09/24/2017 117a0b51ed85b117c4c4e535d40b6c61  -              8 x L3+     6.40 kW
09/24/2017 117a0b51ed85b117c4c4e535d40b6c61  -              7 x D3      9.50 kW
09/30/2017 4a158c2621f72d33eebbd7fe472173f8  -             ?? x S9    30.00 kW
10/03/2017 a8fb707146c4eb025e7536efa857cf10  -              1 x L3+     0.85 kW
10/03/2017 b5422dbc40ec824b572afd641c9328d8  -                21 x S9    29.00 kW
10/03/2017 00c9267d54f7b37e60144c7c7008442d  -          21 x L3+    18.00 kW
10/05/2017 5790f87d91329f04a80adec30241ed32  -             ?? x ??    74.00 kW
10/06/2017 336187db18b7e91524d9eeefc93c2144  -             31 x L3+    27.00 kW
10/06/2017 336187db18b7e91524d9eeefc93c2144  -             56 x D3    76.00 kW
10/07/2017 ce46b52e9bb2a5b4ecf80cd736294e73  -           1 x L3+     0.85 kW
10/08/2017 562a3e4ef2d9621cd571301fc480fa85  -          16 x S9    22.00 kW
10/08/2017 562a3e4ef2d9621cd571301fc480fa85  -           1 x L3+     0.85 kW
10/09/2017 a67a18d552d10658ff58625baac2b378  -              4 x L3+     3.40 kW
10/09/2017 2d28caffa03e49352d4fdd250b75cfa2  -      420 x D3   567.00 kW
10/11/2017 34f155ad7fbeacf13c7aa4200648d52b  -              2 x S9     2.80 kW
10/11/2017 8f20eef7a36565f7a1a9688bbb62de15  -              3 x S9     4.50 kW
10/12/2017 0a13741b4af347c0668cfa0d31b92c09  -           5 x L3+     4.30 kW
10/12/2017 0a13741b4af347c0668cfa0d31b92c09  -          20 x S9    27.00 kW
10/15/2017 4768c17b07a38920878bb094277edb63  -              5 x S9     7.00 kW

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Because they are literally replacing it with new gear. Out with the old in with the new, just look on eBay right now ... ridiculous amounts of mining gear for sale.

Because any gear that isn't running at 0.25W/ghash or less is no longer producing and profit and after the next diff change in the next 24 hours it will certainly be at a loss. There was an estimated 400 petahash of gear that should be shutting down over the next couple months. Looks like about half of it has just turned off. That or network variance. However considering that build out of new gear is still happening and hash rate is going down perhaps variance can't account for a decrease. Either way .. mining with anything but the S7, the latest Avalon and BW.com's 14nm miner thing will effectively cost more than it will mine even with fairly cheap power.

Genesis Mining claims it started in Bosnia running GPU's then setup in China running scrypt and then finally ended up setting up several datacenters in Iceland mining bitcoin and X11.

https://vimeo.com/136927293

I'm not sure how much power they have in total and I don't know how many sites in Iceland. However we can conclude since we only are talking about bitcoin and that just from what is shown in the video. I can count 16 sections on the bottom and another 6 on top, each containing 9 x SP30/SP35 machines using at least 3kW to 3.5 kW of power each. So thats between 594 kW and 693 kW at least.

Here are some more pics I found of their facility

http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/design-build/bitcoin-miner-runs-the-ultimate-shoestring-facility/94764.fullarticle

Well after reading that article it claims that Genesis is currently using 1.2 MW. Also noted in the article is that BitFury's Iceland datacenter was apparently actually built by Advania. As previously discussed in the forum that BitFury has vacated this space. It appears that Advania now is offering this space to interested mining parties for 75 euro/kW-month.

https://www.advania.com/cloud/data-center-it-services/#bitcoin-colocation

They call it the Mjölnir Data Center and list the location here;

https://www.google.is/maps/place/Hafnavegur,+Hafnir/@63.9331794,-22.6711592,16.5z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4929fd06e84f0793:0x6c01580688cd513f?hl=en

Apparently google maps imaging is out dated. BitFury had posted a video of this sites construction;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGtrflL8zA

You'll also notice ... this well known image from that video;

https://news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/bitfury-coop-view1.jpg

Is the blurred backdrop image on Advania's page;

https://www.advania.com/cloud

Apparently there are 3 of these buildings each supporting 2 MW or more for a total of perhaps 6 MW.

http://cdn.ttgtmedia.com/rms/onlineImages/sdc_iceland_04.jpg

Additionally it does appear BitFury has a second datacenter in Georgia;

http://cbw.ge/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/10525004_1154234711273103_253096434_n.jpg

Which is certainly different from their first one which was stated to be 20 MW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3xRNmtpy6s

The new datacenter is stated to be 40 MW.

http://cbw.ge/business/pm-unveils-datacenter-with-innovative-energy-efficient-cooling-system/

And is stated to be utilizing their immersion cooling technology on both previous 28nm and latest 16nm chips.

"BitFury mega processing datacenter is equipped by the most advanced 28 and 16 nanometer chips."


Also don't forget Bitcoin Club Network which not much before January had less than 5 petahash is also in Iceland and lately has been showing up at around 20 petahash. Which means even with they have to be 5 - 10 MW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eId68Y9fsYA

They are clearly building this out right now.

This pic looks to be an older facility as it looks like all S2's or S4's and the page this image comes from talks about their new Iceland facillity back in July.

http://bitcoinsalvation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bitmine4.jpg

http://bitcoinsalvation.com/blog/2015/06/bitclub-new-mining-pool-coming-soon/

Some more info from their own site;

https://bitclubnetwork.com/products.html

Hash the Planet

http://hashthepla.net/#section-pricing

Located at a property owned by Jay Byers, owner of the 106,000-square-foot Mission District building in Cashmere who has been leasing 13,000-square feet of space to a server farm business for the past 18 months.

https://www.chelanpud.org/docs/default-source/commission/forum-lets-high-density-power-users-share-their-side-of-the-story---leavenworth-echo-jan-27-2016.pdf?sfvrsn=0

It does not mention the total capacity but it does mention the total investment of $800k going on $1M, so I would assume no less than 1 MW and probably no more than 2 MW.

http://hashthepla.net/gallery/#!

Looks like they are selling on eBay right now ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281899529175

The listing says "We have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds". So I would assume no less than 300 and probably no more than maybe 1000. Assuming this isn't the only equipment the power need of 180 kW - 600 kW. Since that lines up with the original projection above I would assume it's a 1 MW datacenter. However spending $800k - $1 M on the setup in the picture of the Hash the Planet pics leads me to think they have a lot more power they aren't using.

In the above Chelan PUD document the building owner Jim Byers mentions ""I made the agreement with these guys that I would build the server system and in two years they will buy it for $3 million more than he put into it. So far, I'm $800,000 into this thing and will be $1 million into it before its done. I own the server system and they run the computers," he said. "They told me if the rate goes up, they will just move. I will lose $4 million if you do this."

So it sounds like he bought a bunch of miners. Man .. what did S5's go for ... $340-$420 ... If you spent $1 million on build out and another $3 million on S5's that would get you approximately 7000 S5's and psu's .... That would use 590 watts x 7000 miners = 4.1 MW. Which is still within the 5 MW Chelan PUD limit for subsidized power rates.

Although in that "High Density Load Forum with Chelan County PUD and Salcido Connection Wenatchee WA" video I posted earlier which is from just a couple days ago. It is stated several times the "actual amount of power being used currently in Chelan PUD is just over 5 MW" and that perhaps there "were" previously failed endeavors accounting for several other MW that may no longer be utilized for mining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUPLp_AVIWY"

So if you take that as absolute truth then the following operations cannot account for more than "just over 5 MW" of active capacity. Malachi claims he is using 3.7MW of that figure leaving 1.3 - 1.6MW to account for the other two.

Dedicated ASIC Services - Michael Cao / Cashmere, could be ZoomHash who claims to have 3MW http://zoomhash.com/pages/hosting
Salcido Connection - Malachi Salcido / Cashmere, South Wenatchee
Hash the Planet - Sean Cooper / Cashmere

Oh ... cool I just confirmed the location of the second Salcido connection site.

"At last Wednesday's forum Salcido Connection owner Malachi Salcido, who has equipped much of the former Tree Top facility in Cashmere as a low tier no tier data center and is working on a second facility in the Go USA building in Wenatchee"

http://cashmerevalleyrecord.com/print.asp?ArticleID=9072&SectionID=5&SubSectionID=5

So that confirms it is the building on the right.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/GO+USA,+Inc/@47.4179256,-120.3044442,3a,75y,328.03h,90.39t/data=

There are a few missing ones I think;


LordPaco has a 1 MW mine according to, could be 4-5MW now according to reference below;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1159107.msg12266632#msg12266632

Also pictures from page 40 in "Miner photo 'porn'"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766998.msg12220928#msg12220928

It's stated that the goal is to being 4 MW online by the end of the year. The post is from 08/23/2015.

Quite recently ASICSPACE had a some sort of "parting ways" with their original datacenter operated by, and they moved their remaining customers to Quincy, WA and into LordPaco's space;

"ASICSpace Mining Co. v. Salcido Connection Inc."

http://wbjtoday.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&subsectionID=62&articleID=3627

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=885197.msg13190964#msg13190964

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1328951.msg13560711#msg13560711

That means Salcido Connection Inc. is now going to operate their own datacenter with the capacity previously allocated to ASICSPACE.

http://ncwbusiness.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=45&ArticleID=3742&TM=57112.81

I find it interesting that he contests the stigma around bitcoin not creating jobs.

"The metric we need to get out there is this is way more jobs per megawatt than manufacturing," he said. "Alcoa used 250 megawatts for 450 jobs. I'm creating more than 50 family wage jobs on 4 megawatts. And there's a ton of direct and indirect economic spinoff from that. Data space and emerging technology draws all kinds of spin off support industries, the kind you can imagine and those you can't imagine."

However everyone in the Chelan area is running into potential problems securing power pricing;

http://kuow.org/post/virtual-currency-meets-wariness-it-plugs-cheap-columbia-river-power

"High Density Load Forum with Chelan County PUD and Salcido Connection Wenatchee WA"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUPLp_AVIWY

seek to 4:50

At 11:50 he mentions "We have two facilities, we have a 2MW at the old Tree Top plant in Cashmere, WA and we have another 1.7MW in south Wenatchee that we call Columbia Data."

The second location might be at this site on Columbia St.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/GO+USA,+Inc/@47.4179256,-120.3044442,3a,75y,328.03h,90.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFUoUHGOzUZCiJu2zxRvYYg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x3d6360bf7572beb0!6m1!1e1

Notice the power going to the upper floor of the building on the left, looks like 1MW of 3 phase. Then there is another 750 kVA transformer on the street to the right. In short, plenty of power on this street to get 1.7MW.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/GO+USA,+Inc/@47.418386,-120.3036617,299m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x3d6360bf7572beb0!6m1!1e1

The aerial view shows that Columbia St is adjacent to this substation and there are visibly existing overhead lines carrying that power over to Chehalis St and then to Columba St. Pretty ideal short runs!
Also in this meeting is "Dedicated ASIC Services" ... anyone know who that is?

Plus there is also .. OregonMines which I read had 500 kVA in one location and another 1 MW in a different location in the same area. I can not seem to find a reference for that.

https://www.oregonmines.com/location/

KNC is located in The Node Pole which is a collection of business industrial real estate which is open to development. Obviously they have attractive offerings for people opening up shop there.

The KNC Boden datacenters are right next to each other neighboring the old Helicopter Air Base.

http://thenodepole.com/data-center-sites/helicopter-air-base/

They have hyrdro and local biogas power production and in addition are well connected to their national electric grid.

http://thenodepole.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/hydro-960x485-900x455.png

If I recall the first KNC site was 10MW and the second was going to be 20MW .. or was that 20MW total and an additional 10MW ... I'm not 100% sure, I would have to scour the media releases.

This is also home to Hydro66

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=765407.0

http://thenodepole.com/data-center-sites/hydro66/

"Hydro66, a data centre provider financed by Black Green Capital"

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/22/cloud-storage-data-centre-sweden-arctic-hydro66

"Hydro 66’s anchor tenant in their first facility is a Bitcoin operation called MegaMine, which has the same equity backers and management as Hydro66."

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/10/23/hydro66-kicks-off-sweden-data-center-construction-in-facebooks-neighborhood/

MegaMine is apparently these dudes;

http://www.megamine.com/aboutus.php

The pic on that page of their datacenter is clearly not their datacenter and is a pic from a facebook datacenter. Which is ironic because Facebook also actually has a datacenter in the area. Same reference as above.

Just wanted to mention that I also provide miner hosting through my company, JeffColo. I am located near Portland, OR and have very competitive rates, with no taxes and no import fees or duties. The one downside I have had is that I'm typically full with no remaining vacancy.

Recently though there have been a fair number of customers who have been selling off old gear and I do have some room opening up shortly. However only about 30-40kW, I do have an expansion underway that will add another 500kW but it won't likely be available until late December/early January.

In addition to mining gear I also host traditional servers at the same rates I offer miners in terms of power usage. So if you want a dedicated management server or something thats no problem. I also have a VPS setup and I can provide you with a management/logging/proxy VM if you need.

I have all the standard stuff;

* Insured against theft and disaster
* Multi-homed (1 Gbps fiber / 100 Mbit cable / 30 Mbps 4G LTE)
* Redundant network core and routing
* Critical infrastructure and virtualization on UPS

I do not have a website, no need or time. If you want more details email me at jeff at jeffcolo.net