I really appreciate your values and I couldn’t agree more.

Perhaps there are some misunderstandings on how we do things. Our hashrate redirect program does not involve FPPS pools.

Our clients can freely pick their pool. Most of our clients use Ocean. In fact, our company fleet points to Ocean also. We are all using DATUM too.

When we compensate hashrate. We simply point our machines to your pool. You still receive the bitcoin from Ocean as if nothing changed.

So, like I said: I respect your values and we try to embody them in the service we have created.

I appreciate the sentiment. Even if BIP-110 succeeds though, it is temporary. I think it is time we all start focusing on what a permanent solution might look like.

Hey Ralph,

I appreciate you asking around nostr for insight on our hosting service. If you don’t mind, and while my opinion is obviously biased, I would like to offer a reply here, if for nothing else than for educational purposes.

Firstly, we compensate with hashrate, and we’re proud of it. Our company is full of team members who have been wronged by hosts in the past. One of the lessons we took from those experiences is that customer experience is a low priority for many. While machines going down from time to time is natural in the mining business, we wanted a client experience where one could rest easy knowing we’d handle their machine in a timely manner and that they’d see little to no disruption in their accumulation of sats. Downtime can significantly impact one’s investment outlook, especially considering the scarcity and precious nature of the bitcoin being mined. This is true not only because of bitcoin’s price appreciation, but because every day spent not mining is sats you’ll never get back, thanks to the difficulty adjustment. We want to maximize the sats our clients receive, so we compensate hashrate.

Furthermore, we’ve sold both Whatsminer and Bitmain machines in the past, and at the moment we’re only selling S21 XPs. We’ve found them incredibly reliable, and they remain profitable even at today’s market price and network difficulty.

Lastly, we think it’s worth noting the potential tax benefits of mining. It’s absolutely true that mining is a difficult business. In that same light, most who participate do so as a business and are therefore eligible for bonus depreciation and all the write-off potential of a normal business. In our opinion, one reason mining can be more attractive than buying bitcoin, and much more attractive than renting hashrate, is that the purchase of machines, when structured correctly, can be a tax write-off, which can drastically change one’s investment outlook and return on investment.

All that said, we hope you don’t mind us interjecting on this thread. We simply wanted to share our perspective, and we very much appreciate the open dialogue.

True indeed.

Though psychopaths are not the only thing to be worried about. We must also be careful not to fall into traps of our own minds.

I’m not seeing any confirmation on this either.

He recently shared that he gut issues. Cant find confirmation about Parkinson’s though.

What makes you say that?

Economic “filters” would help reduce arbitrary data without arbitrary rules.