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Offline TomSea

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Russian Nuclear Supercomputer 'Caught Mining Bitcoin'
« on: February 09, 2018, 07:36:51 pm »
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Russian Nuclear Supercomputer 'Caught Mining Bitcoin'

Employees at a Russian top-secret nuclear facility have reportedly been detained after trying to use one of Russia's most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoin.

The press service of the Federal Nuclear Center told Mash -- a news channel on the Telegram messenger app -- that security at the facility was alerted when an employee tried to connect the supercomputer to the Internet, allegedly in a bid to mine Bitcoin.

The press service told Mash on February 9 that several employees were handed over to the Federal Security Service.

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sarov-nuclear-facility-workers-arrested-using-supercomputer-mine-bitcoin/29030004.html
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Re: Russian Nuclear Supercomputer 'Caught Mining Bitcoin'
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2018, 07:41:10 pm »
Yet one more reason I'm not a fan of cryptocurrencies.
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Re: Russian Nuclear Supercomputer 'Caught Mining Bitcoin'
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2018, 08:05:56 pm »
We saw a small non-profit healthcare organization who had an IT director doing this.  Had it set up in the datacenter.
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