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Many of our readers are already familiar with the Supermicro MicroCloud. The MicroCloud is popular in web and dedicated hosting markets where sharing the chassis, power, and cooling are desired while still maintaining physical nodes. At Computex 2023, the STH team saw the new AMD AM5 version of the MicroCloud designed to fit 8x AMD Ryzen nodes into a single chassis.

Supermicro MicroCloud with 8x AMD Ryzen AM5 Nodes Chassis at Computex 2023

The system itself is the upcoming Supermicro AS-3015MR-H8TNR. This is a 3U chassis (CSE-938NH-R2K20BP2) with sixteen 3.5″ front bays.

Each node gets two of these 3.5″ bays.

Hetzner Online, a data center based in Germany, said that using its hosting services for any application related to cryptocurrency mining is not permitted. The company disclosed its stance in a Reddit thread, saying that its ban on mining-related uses includes both Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Proof-of-Work (PoW) applications.

The company’s stance on PoS applications could have serious implications on the Ethereum ecosystem, as 16.0% of Ethereum’s validator nodes are currently hosted on Hetzner’s servers.

Hetzner’s comments have been met with disapproval from the broader crypto community, with many criticizing the company for hosting cryptocurrency-related applications, including mining, for years without disclosing it in their terms of service.

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Around 10% of Ethereum nodes use Hetzner’s service today.  

Don’t Use Us for Crypto, Hetzner Warns 

Ethereum’s reliance on centralized web hosting services has once again come under scrutiny in the crypto community. 

This time, the discussions center on Hetzner, a web hosting service that currently looks after around 16% of remote Ethereum nodes (as 61% of nodes are hosted remotely, that equates to about…