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NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin

Posted by Unknown on from the probably-shouldn't-do-that dept.

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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  1. Throw the book... maybe literally at him. by Shadowmist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is pretty much at the lowest of the low category, Someone who takes up taxpayer funded computer time to mine Bitcoin, should essentially be barred for life form the facility... and that's for starters.

    1. Re:Throw the book... maybe literally at him. by iroll · · Score: 5, Insightful

      ...because you buy time on modern supercomputers all the time, and can give us the real scoop, right?

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      Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth. - FDR