Re:Bitcoin nearing $800/BTC
by loceng on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:28PM
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Could Amazon disallow that if they wanted?
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Re:Bitcoin nearing $800/BTC
by dragonwriter on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:33PM
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> Could Amazon disallow that if they wanted?
It would make sense for Amazon to raise the price rather than disallowing it (specifically, because enforcing a prohibition on activity would cost Amazon money, but setting the price to be at least marginally more expensive than Amazon's expected minimal-effort realizable gain from using the GPU instances themselves would make Amazon money.)
No they could not, it's just OpenCL.
Also: Why would they? They still get paid and the GPU is dedicated on those instances.