Out of Compute North’s Bankruptcy Rises a 300MW Bitcoin Miner With a Novel Energy Offering
“In a fixed-price hosting market, as we’ve seen the market shake out, one party usually ends up losing,” either the customer is signing up for a fixed price that turns out to be too high or the price is too low, and so the infrastructure partner hosting partner is at risk, said Ro Shirole, who left retail-facing hosting firm Compass Mining to join Saxet as its chief commercial officer.
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