they are hosting the rigs and managing them. They are doing the work. I'm just paying to play with the hardware
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Not your custody => not your rigs. Not saying they'll literally rug you, just fudge and double-dip; and you'll never know.
Everything else about this scenario is potentially managable except that.
That's true too. Good point. I was talking to someone else and think I'm going to hold off anyways