The biggest issue I am seeing with hosting is that we are small players.
With the great miner migration out of China I am seeing data centers that are being taken over by mining operations.
No press, no fanfare, just slowly pushing out those of us hosting servers / routing equipment and the miners moving in.
I guess there is going to be a lot of that in the dedicated miner hosting market.
Would you want to host 5000 miners from 750 different customers or 5000 miners from 1 customer?
You can fire most of your support staff, no dealing with tons of configuration issues.
Get them power, get them cooling and let their staff deal with the rest.
-Dave
That's the name of the centralization game. Cheaper and easier always has sacrifices somewhere. First it was the home miner and they said to find a host. Then the hosts started dropping customers... It's a shame nobody has thought of a good way for the network to incentivize decentralization and small miners. I don't think the blocksize has as much to do with it as the narrative would have one believe. You saw different pools and companies come and go a lot during the CPU->GPU->FPGA->ASIC evolution which I think helped keep any one operation from grabbing a long term foothold on the market, but I fear that more and more individual miners will only continue to be squeezed out until another evolution hits the reset button and Antpool goes the way of Deepbit (to make a poor analogy).
The answer for me, is to run a small diversified mining operation on renewable energy while trying to stay nimble.
