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by kuschku 1265 days ago
SourceHut offers CI. People end up just using the CI for litecoin/bitcoin/eth/etc mining or the storage for chia mining.
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Wrong. See Drew DeVault's (founder of SourceHut) comment on exactly this topic:

> Q: How much of this is due to not wanting build/pipeline servers getting abused for mining purposes?

> A: None: the mining incidents stopped entirely when we started charging for CI and it stopped being profitable to do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33404713

As you can see, CI had nothing to do with their decision. The ToS changes specifically refer to source code hosting.