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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. Re:Throw the book... maybe literally at him. by Mashiki · · Score: -1, Redundant

    As opposed to fucking the fudge out of the consumers.

    That comes *later.

    *may or maynot include a reach-around, lube not provided.

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