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Re:Bitcoin nearing $800/BTC by loceng on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:28PM (#6758350)
Could Amazon disallow that if they wanted?
Re:Bitcoin nearing $800/BTC by dragonwriter on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:33PM (#6758365)
> 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.)

Re:Bitcoin nearing $800/BTC by rb2k_ on Monday November 18, 2013 @07:32PM (#6758361)
No they could not, it's just OpenCL. Also: Why would they? They still get paid and the GPU is dedicated on those instances.
Re:Bitcoin nearing $800/BTC by loceng on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @12:22PM (#6762671)
Why wouldn't Amazon just then dedicated "all" of their free resources towards mining them, and keep whatever profits other are making?..