I see Braiins has launched a rent-a-hash program so to speak. $39/PH/day.
Just off the cuff this seems like a pretty decent deal considering to buy a PH worth of machines and then feed it electric would cost more than $39 a day? I did set a bid and am sending the hash to my OCEAN account for a test run. What you think @paul
I haven’t run the math yet taking into account the “One Big Beautiful Bill” change that lets you offset deprecation of the ASIC on your taxes, but on the surface, this sounds like it might be more cost efficient. Do they let you rent without doing KYC? Besides supporting OCEAN (and likely the MASF when it is finalized), another reason to do this would be to build your non-KYC stack if that can be achieved with this option.
Yes…no KYC. There are several pools that you can point to also but I was glad to see OCEAN available.
As for the One Big Beautiful Bill - yes…that is a factor to be sure. I bought a Antminer S21 Pro 234TH and plopped it down at Sazmining last week. Nice to see Saz make OCEAN and Datum available as well…bummer though I cant use my OCEAN username but oh well (for now). With the One Big Beautiful Bill that $5200 spent for setup and purchase it will be nice to recover that cap-x.
Do they pay out over lightning or only base layer? No KYC is excellent, but thinking adversarily, if their records and logs were to be siezed at some point, a base-layer address could be traced on chain to try and associate it with the rest of your non-KYC stack (payout over lighting would break that link). I suppose if it is base layer payout only, you could pay out to your lightning node’s base layer wallet, use it to open a channel or splice into an existing channel, then send to Boltz over lightning to swap it into a fresh cold storage address. Taking a ride through the lightning network breaks the on-chain tracability.