NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin

PvtVoid (1252388) writes "In the semiannual report to Congress by the NSF Office of Inspector General, the organization said it received reports of a researcher who was using NSF-funded supercomputers at two universities to mine Bitcoin. The computationally intensive mining took up about $150,000 worth of NSF-supported computer use at the two universities to generate bitcoins worth about $8,000 to $10,000, according to the report. It did not name the researcher or the universities."

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Villain?

[Anonymous Coward]

NO. This man is a hero for disrupting those rigged climate simulations confirming AGW. He wasn't in it for the money per se, it's just that mining bitcoin was simply the best way to do it. Plus, mining bitcoin had the added social benefit of further cracking the Rothschild edifice. Power to the people!

And then used it for Piracy

[high_rolla]

And then imagine if he used that $8000 to buy a computer and an internet connection and downloaded a few pirated songs doing literally $trillions in damage.

My estimates are that he could easily have downloaded enough pirated content with that much internet to cause enough damage to bankrupt the entire world.

What a Noob.

[Anonymous Coward]

Supercomputers are so last year. Do you even ASIC, bro?

Re:give them probation.... maybe felony if necessa

[ultranova]

He appropriated a taxpayer resource to line his pockets.

So basically, he's the very model of a good capitalist, sharing the costs and keeping the profits. Why should he be punished for his entrepreneurship? Why do you hate freedom so much?

Bald eagles cry tears of blood, red like the flag of Soviet Union, over your post.