There are three 'knobs' to the cloud today: compute, storage and networking. A new emergent 'knob' for the cloud is trust. Trust affects three primary features of the cloud: how it's paid for (credit vs. capital expenditure), how it works (standards vs. custom solutions) and who I am (identity management vs. anonymous use). I won't go into it much here, but cryptocurrencies play a part in this knob, big time.
In Huthos case, they 'hack' the credit part by simply taking a machine with poor identity management in place (honeypot) and then provide a high level of anonymization for their customers (the 'who I am' above) and providing it as a standard way for extending a VPS offering (which itself provides 'who I am' services).
It's all about trust, and what's the most irritating part about it is that the violate it first before they get to selling it to others. Crazy.
In Huthos case, they 'hack' the credit part by simply taking a machine with poor identity management in place (honeypot) and then provide a high level of anonymization for their customers (the 'who I am' above) and providing it as a standard way for extending a VPS offering (which itself provides 'who I am' services).
It's all about trust, and what's the most irritating part about it is that the violate it first before they get to selling it to others. Crazy.