Topic: HOT: “Russian nuclear engineers arrested for using state supercomputers to mine (Read 110 times)

Two engineers of the Russian Nuclear Center have been caught using one of the facility’s supercomputers to mine Bitcoin.

This sad story took place in the top-secret Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, western Russia, where the first nuclear boom was produced during the Cold War by Russian scientists.

It should be noted that the Nuclear Center in Sarov cannot be found in any maps. This is one of the top-secret centers, totally separated with the rest of Sarov. Any one who wishes to enter the area must acquire a special permit.

The Russian Federal Nuclear Center is located in an isolated town with about 20,000 officers. The center launched its new supercomputer with the capacity of 1 petaflop (the capacity to process one thousand million million operations per second) in 2011. For security reasons, this supercomputer was not intended to be connected to the Internet.
It is recorded that two engineers of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center used this supercomputer to mine Bitcoin. Right after these engineers attempted to connect the supercomputer to the Internet, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation was alerted and the engineers were caught and detained in time.

Coin mining is a method to get free digital coins without the need of purchasing. Of course, it will require other expenses. The stronger your computer is, the higher chance you can mine coin. The Russian supercomputer is obviously too suitable for this operation.

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