Stop whining about people so called 'stealing blocks'. They are not stolen, they are earned.
You can't really consider using amazon equipment for a lil cash, "earned".... like... AT ALL! I wouldn't call it stealing either.. but it is an unfair advantage to the common folks with decent machines that want to mine for the greater good or to support a dev.. or to make some profit's.. but when it's a solo mine only coin.. that nobody can mine anymore.. because of a small group of people that found per hour access to cpu's.. sure great idea.. but so were asics.. look what that did to bitcoin... how many of you without asic's are mining for bitcoin? none?
""""refrain from making more negative statement directed at victim here"""I do not see what the issue is with ASIC's on bitcoin. The network is now much better secured against a 51% attack than ever, ASIC's give a much lower hash/watt than CPU or GPU or even FPGA miners could ever dream, and you can buy an ASIC miner yourself for only $90 bucks and have it arrive in less than a week. Yes, there are less people mining, but those who remain still increase the networks security from a 51% attack due to how large of an order of ASIC's the vandal would need.
Also, amazon instances are not an unfair advantage. You are free to use them yourself, the order process is painless, at most you would loose than a dollar, and setup time takes less than half an hour. You are as free to do this yourself as they are. Mining on EC2 is just as beneficial to the "common good" and the devs than a single CPU miner, if not more. Want to make a profit? Well, competition is ramping up, as it should be.
Also, using amazon's second largest CPU instance gives you less than 1,500 pps. It makes more sense to just buy the hardware yourself to mine than to use a VPS.