> Why care at all what someone does with an instance they paid for, as long as it’s not illegal? I can think of a few reasons. I'm not sure how many apply in t

> Why care at all what someone does with an instance they paid for, as long as it’s not illegal? I can think of a few reasons. I'm not sure how many apply in this case, but I think all of them. 1) Many service providers want to provide a free tier. It's a fairly inexpensive way to try to hook someone who will eventually pay off in spades. This is common in many industries. The difference is a business may scale because of demand - crypto miners will not. 2) There is a difference between 100% 24/7 utilization and intermittently hitting 100% at high load times. This has to do with hardware lifespans, the ability of overcommit hardware (like ISPs overselling bandwidth or airlines overselling tickets) 3) A company may think crypto is morally/environmentally/legally/PR bad and forbid it for the same reasons as weed, tobacco or porn. Or for processing transactions for members of rogue nations. 4) Using stolen CC numbers to mine crypto seems like a lossy but effective way to turn those numbers into actual money. That's just trivially off the top of my head. As to your other question - no. None of the issues I described (unless you think any non crypto 100% pegging is likely to persist forever) are better solved with pricing adjustments. I don't let people smoke in my home. There is no reasonable sum someone could pay me to just smoke one cigarette.