Glad you had a good experience.

Re: miners and payment upfront -- the Mining Farm needs an incentive to send the hashrate elsewhere vs mining themselves. To create this incentive, the buyer can either pay a premium or pay upfront.

There's already 2 hashrate markets where you can buy hash at a premium -- on Rigly we let the Mining Farm get paid upfront (50% upfront, 50% held in escrow during delivery)

For the farm, getting paid upfront allows them to expand faster:

And then, if they choose to list this new hashrate on Rigly, the cycle can repeat over and over again.

This way a small or mid-size mining operation, with limited access to capital, can grow by selling their hashrate p2p to bitcoiners who want to secure their network (and earn some extra sats in the process)