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by bitcoin-fool 4802 days ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585166 for information on BFL's hosting program. It's likely that BFL and affiliate datacenter personnel will control > 50% of the bitcoin hash rate at some point. Here's my comment on that thread ...

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BFL has affiliate data centers where those purchasing the more powerful BFL machines can have their systems hosted, for a fee. The default option: "Your hosted units will be added to a mining farm and you will be paid out regularly based on their collective output." Datacenter and BFL personnel will be monitoring the machines for defects and maintaining them. The hosting option makes sense for new untested hardware like this ...

So, it's likely the BFL datacenter mining pool will control > 50% of the bitcoin hashrate at some point.