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January 02, 2013, 08:38:52 PM |
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IIRC, Inaba offered the hosting as a means of protecting international customers from paying huge shipment costs from returning a Single as part of their upgrade program. I don't really know why BTCASIC is offering this, except to reduce the cost of running one of their miners, which is actually a red flag in my mind.
Not a lot of details about Tom's hosting solution have come out yet, but I don't see centralization being a huge issue. Letting a customer control and direct their own hardware is the best option.
And as far as security goes, 100 customers pointing their miners to 100 different pools is still pretty decentralized from a network standpoint, even if they are all physically next to each other.
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