Quote from: RandyFolds on July 10, 2013, 08:17:09 PM

Quote from: bonsai99 on July 10, 2013, 05:53:48 PM

Quote from: bonsai99 on July 10, 2013, 03:07:46 AM

I wonder how long until they start kicking people off their VPSes for mining. Who knows, they might not do anything at all.

Quote from: bbxx on July 10, 2013, 05:42:39 PM

Due to a massive influx of Abuse relating to Bitcoin, we are unable to unlock your account due to the violation of our Terms of Service.

And the storm begins!

Meh...they wanted me to verify, and I provided the info save for a website. I told them I was just messing with VPS and Linux to learn the ropes. They didn't care and still verified me, and I figured while they were being all nice, I would meet on their field and make sure that I wasn't being an asshole by utilizing 100% CPU on my instances.

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Thanks! I ended up installing some cryptocurrency software because I wasn't sure what else to tinker with as my first VPS hurdle. I just wanted to check and make sure that running something with high CPU utilization isn't a problem. I would be more than happy to yank them down if it's poor form to be running full bore for days.

Digital Ocean Support:
Do what you have to do =)

Mine those bitcoins! (or whichever)

Let us know if you experience any problems.

Thank you
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Seems like they're cool with it. I'm gonna need to figure out a good way to spend some money with these guys once I've eaten through my credit. I can only imagine they're wincing at the number of folks who've redeemed the offer (in the middle of the night, when it was probably one absolutely panicked triage dude who was unable to pull the offer himself on staff), and the majority of people are just going to drift off after getting their freebie.

Thanks for that Randy!

Re: improvements,

I'm going to work on compiling the change later if a binary hasn't already been released. I suggest that you don't use anyone's binary unless it's from a trusted source.