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I would totally understand this on VPS and dedis where the crypto is mining ssd blocks (I think it’s name is Chia). But preventing me from running a normal bit

I would totally understand this on VPS and dedis where the crypto is mining ssd blocks (I think it’s name is Chia). But preventing me from running a normal bitcoin node on my server, which writes 400GB once and is done makes me left confused.

newaccount74 4y ago
Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud. It's the reason I would never get into that business, so I kind of understand why a company would prefer not to allow anything crypto related on their platform.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
  While surprisingly banning a class of services that few others ban is a problem in itself, what's a bigger problem is that a) the ToS doesn't mention it b) it's enforced without warning. If these are not toy projects, outages can get expensive (due to networks imposing penalties on nodes that don't fulfill promises, or trading getting messed up).
  - Aeolun 4y ago
    - bicijay 4y ago
      This is not reddit sir.
- unity1001 4y ago
  > Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud What will they do when a new form of fraud or a more potent way to do cyberattacks targets another online activity? Like ecommerce? Or blogs? Shut down all ecommerce sites? All blogs? I find such measures as foolish as blocking port 25 - it works until the attackers and the software they use update itself to abuse the same thing in another way. A temporary relief that just complicates things.
- mekster 4y ago
  > never get into that business Shows why you somehow think running a node makes it a target for cyber attack and frauds... How does running a node make it a target for such? They only relay publicly available information and targeting a single node doesn't really harm the network.

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I would totally understand this on VPS and dedis where the crypto is mining ssd blocks (I think it’s name is Chia). But preventing me from running a normal bit

by mccorrinall 4y ago

newaccount74 4y ago
Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud. It's the reason I would never get into that business, so I kind of understand why a company would prefer not to allow anything crypto related on their platform.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y ago
  While surprisingly banning a class of services that few others ban is a problem in itself, what's a bigger problem is that a) the ToS doesn't mention it b) it's enforced without warning. If these are not toy projects, outages can get expensive (due to networks imposing penalties on nodes that don't fulfill promises, or trading getting messed up).
  - Aeolun 4y ago
    - bicijay 4y ago
      This is not reddit sir.
- unity1001 4y ago
  > Providing services to the crypto community probably makes you a huge target for cyber attacks and all kinds of fraud What will they do when a new form of fraud or a more potent way to do cyberattacks targets another online activity? Like ecommerce? Or blogs? Shut down all ecommerce sites? All blogs? I find such measures as foolish as blocking port 25 - it works until the attackers and the software they use update itself to abuse the same thing in another way. A temporary relief that just complicates things.
- mekster 4y ago
  > never get into that business Shows why you somehow think running a node makes it a target for cyber attack and frauds... How does running a node make it a target for such? They only relay publicly available information and targeting a single node doesn't really harm the network.