Replying to Wonteet Zebugs

Has anybody found a cloud service provider that rents GPUs and accepts bitcoin?

I like the idea of installing it myself but I don't have the local power to use the more advanced models. So GPU rental seems the way to go.

Obviously I prefer to use Bitcoin for many reasons but one is for privacy. I could probably try using a prepaid credit card but I also know many providers refuse those. Or they may be usable only in some countries.

Lunanode is well known for accepting bitcoin but they don't offer GPU rentals.

The closest I've come is bitlaunch.io for a vultr.com instance (they do GPUs) but we can't freeze/shelve the instance between uses. Neither can we take a snapshot between uses to faciliate the next instance creation. I guess there's the option of leaving the instance on, but that would be in the thousands per month...

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Raul007 2y ago

Runpod accepts Bitcoin, but only through crypto . com, so kind of useless. I've yet to come across a good cloud GPU service that respects privacy.

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Wonteet Zebugs 2y ago

Thank you for that reference. I looked them up and looked at their Terms of Service. First time for me : you can't even copy-paste from their ToS page and the source of the webpage also doesn't show the text. (Print as pdf did create a file I could play with though).

Clause 2 related to intellectual property says we can't use the "Content" (whatever that means) for commercial purposes, only personal purposes. More importantly, it seems to say the Content is theirs (and so presumably what would be created in response to our questions and prompts?). I'm not sure what that all would mean when using an LLM.

I didn't even know crypto.com was still a thing. I thought they were toast! And I never knew there was such a thing as crypto.com payments. Presumably they're like a bitpay? I'll look at it a little bit more.

Lunanode not only accepts bitcoin, they do so through btcpayserver and they accept lightning. I love that service. I wish they also offered GPUs!

The search for a GPU-renting, bitcoin-accepting, friendly ToS-offering service provider continues...

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Wonteet Zebugs 2y ago

Oh, now I see what the crypto.com payment method is. One needs a crypto.com account. Can't seem to be able to pay on Runpod with bitcoin without that account. I thought it was like bitpay (which is bad enough) but it's even worse. Oh well.

The search continues.