If my understanding is correct then iEx.ec is a decentralized cloud. People saw my previous post where I said I sold my Golem tokens to go all in on iEx.ec. Now I'll explain the potential of iEx.ec in the near term and how it's going to disrupt the crypto-mining industry.

**The roadmap gives us a timeframe:**

http://iex.ec/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/iEx.Ec-Roadmap_v2_150x150px.png
(source:  http://iex.ec/?page_id=483 )

The end of the "mining contracts" and the birth of distributed cloud mining
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If you have enough "computation vouchers" in the form of RLC then why would you need to buy a mining contract? You can simply buy the RLC token and mine any cryptocurrency that will ever exist in the future using the cloud.  This will change mining and possibly decentralize mining away from mining pools. Currently people mine by using Amazon AWS or similar services and this is what was likely used for Protoshares mining, for  mining Steem, Dash or any of these sorts of tokens early on. With RLC you'll always have as many virtual machine instances as you need and can simply upgrade your mining power by buying more RLC tokens, and what do you think that could do for the price of RLC?

AI will be available for trading bots
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This could change entirely how trading works on exchanges as bots can now become far more sophisticated.  What if using your RLC tokens you can buy bots which trade for you using sophisticated "Wall Street" level AI? This could change trading and dramatically favor the bots and high frequency trading tactics. I'm unable to predict what will happen here but the potential for bots is huge and AI requires lots of computation resources.

Conclusion and my own reason for desiring as much RLC as possible
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These two use cases above are just the ones I'm excited about which I could see myself using. The idea that I can mine hundreds of altcoins without a limit beyond what my RLC can afford? Even if it becomes too competitive and my RLC cannot keep up in the distributed cloud mining race, the price of RLC will go up. Currently the price of 1 RLC is under $1 which is a remarkable opportunity similar to the opportunity presented by Ethereum when the price was under $1. RLC if it does what the developers claim,  could be the fuel for a mining arms race. In a sense, if you're trying to make a passive income you probably don't care where the actual mining rig is, but that you get the profit from it. And done right, the computations will be private so that the security is good as well.

Thoughts?

References
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1. https://medium.com/iex-ec/iex-ec-virtual-machine-management-2d9fb3d74d0c