Paid for ASIC hosting in the US to avoid EU import VAT.

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I'm a little confused by this thread: How many people are offering a hosting service, and how many people are looking for their ASICs to be hosted?

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[puck2]

Regarding a hypothetical ASIC hosting solution, or the one being prepared by BTCFPGA/bASIC, I'm curious about how it will develop and how ownership will be structured. Will it threaten a 51% attack assuming there was one large hosting solution available?

[creativex]

It's possible, but unlikely. BFL or at least Inaba is providing hosting services at this time so there will be at least some competition in this arena. It is a step toward centralization though and therefore a theoretical reduction in network security.

[crazyates]

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.

[cedivad]

The point on using a datacenter is that you don't have to trust a member of this community with your hardware, but the staff of the datacenter.
Much better IMO.