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by egypturnash 1420 days ago
What’s your policy on porn? I know of a lot of people whose main rendering bottleneck is, ah, fluid simulation.

Are you still also a crypto mining operation, as per the “rentaflop miner” link in the “product” section of your footer?

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Currently, the only limitation we have on what users can render is that it must be legal. The rendering, for instance, must not incorporate real images of child pornography.

To answer your second question, rentaflop miner is our product for hardware providers (hosts). It has an optionally-enabled feature allowing it to mine cryptocurrency when it's not processing any rendering jobs, but it's primary purpose is to provide rendering to our network.

I think it is a reasonable question, given how many online services have problem serving this segment, either due to CC not allowing them, or just because they don't want to be seen as a service for smut.