I tried out this service last time bitcoin was in a slump, in 2018. I was out of work, and toying with the idea of commercializing a Norwegian (bokmål-nynorsk) language model which I had trained.
Prices for compute were competitive, but most instances had lousy bandwidth. You don't need bandwidth to run bitcoin miners, apparently.
The people behind it were very friendly and helpful. However, there was an incident in 2020, long after I'd gotten a job and abandoned my ML project. They tried to charge my card a small amount ($1.70), and sent a message that my card was expired, which indeed it was. I asked them what that was all about, since I'd not rented any instances for years, and I never got any explanation other than "that's weird".
Prices for compute were competitive, but most instances had lousy bandwidth. You don't need bandwidth to run bitcoin miners, apparently.
The people behind it were very friendly and helpful. However, there was an incident in 2020, long after I'd gotten a job and abandoned my ML project. They tried to charge my card a small amount ($1.70), and sent a message that my card was expired, which indeed it was. I asked them what that was all about, since I'd not rented any instances for years, and I never got any explanation other than "that's weird".