Quote from: ikbrunel on September 18, 2013, 02:05:19 AM

Quote from: tgerring on September 15, 2013, 07:25:44 PM

If you could spin-up a secure VM pre-configured with BitcoinD, up-to-date blockchain, and RESTful interface, is that something you'd be interested in as a service?

Given that the hypervizor has access to basically everything on the VM why on earth would I ever run a wallet on someone else's virtualization layer?

For the same reason people use banks instead of stashing their savings under a mattress. If you're willing to place a little trust in a service to use as the hot wallet (keeping most coins in coin storage), there could other benefits such as:

* speed of deployment
* easy scaling
* easier interface/api to interact with