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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."

2 of 220 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Throw the book... maybe literally at him. by asmkm22 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Seems no worse than what politicians do with our money.

  2. question by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why is "mining for bitcoins" worth anything? Does the mining do anything like help SETI or share processing to crunch real world stuff?

    If it has an intrinsic value, then I'd support helping the guy in the OP, but if it's seriously just a ponzi scheme - then I'd support law enforcement on taking it down.

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