Category:Mining contractors: Difference between revisions

From Bitcoin Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Atheros (talk | contribs)
moved some text from the Mining article to this one
Sunnankar (talk | contribs)
No edit summary
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
Provides mining services with performance specified by contract. For example, a specific level of mining capacity may be rented out for a set price for a specific duration. Mining shares provide Mining as a Service (MaaS). These break large-scale datacenter mining down to easily manageable pieces that are available in the form of shares of equipment.
Provides mining services with performance specified by contract. For example, a specific level of mining capacity may be rented out for a set price for a specific duration. Mining shares provide Mining as a Service (MaaS). These break large-scale datacenter mining down to easily manageable pieces that are available in the form of shares of equipment.


Hosted mining services create some systemic risk for the Bitcoin system because they undermine the security assumption that the control of mining power is well distributed. If too much mining becomes consolidated in large hosting providers and an attacker is able to compromise some of these providers they could potentially disrupt the Bitcoin system or rip off people they transact with with reversals.  
Hosted mining services and [https://www.bitcoinmining.com/best-bitcoin-cloud-mining-contract-reviews/ Cloud Mining] create systemic risk for Bitcoin because they undermine the security assumption that the control of mining power is well-distributed. If too much hashrate is consolidated in large hosting centres, an attacker is more-easily able to compromise a significant portion of it and could potentially disrupt Bitcoin or steal back their own spent money.




[[Category:Mining]]
[[Category:Mining]]

Latest revision as of 04:07, 19 May 2016

Provides mining services with performance specified by contract. For example, a specific level of mining capacity may be rented out for a set price for a specific duration. Mining shares provide Mining as a Service (MaaS). These break large-scale datacenter mining down to easily manageable pieces that are available in the form of shares of equipment.

Hosted mining services and Cloud Mining create systemic risk for Bitcoin because they undermine the security assumption that the control of mining power is well-distributed. If too much hashrate is consolidated in large hosting centres, an attacker is more-easily able to compromise a significant portion of it and could potentially disrupt Bitcoin or steal back their own spent money.

Pages in category "Mining contractors"

The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.