Topic: Is it Possible To Mine Bitcoin with Supercomputer? - page 3. (Read 605 times)
Old news, as early as 2017 if I'm not mistaken, reports surfacing that some Russian scientist are already mining bitcoin with their super computers (Illegally). So it's pretty obvious that the answer is yes. However, he has been caught and put to jail as well. So it is worth it trying to harness their super computer to mine bitcoin? I don't think so.
Common sense is the only one you need, I mean if we can mine bitcoin using normal computers, so what more having a super one 
just being straight forward to end this nonsense.
just being straight forward to end this nonsense.
They are going to get some serious jail time because this was a huge security infringement and would have been able to compromise the security of the entire nuclear facility and it would have been disastrous.
They did all get any jail time, two got away with only fines, and I'm sure that the main culprit will get pretty soon out of jail, they are too valuable to be sent to jail, Russia is desperate enough to keep scientists from fleeing they will overlook such an incident. Also, it seems they were mining actually, as ethereum ethminer is mentioned in the court documents and they did so in June-Sep 2017, during the first eth boom.
Mining bitcoin at this time or in future with supercomputer or any other device than ASIC miners is a waste of time, if have a computer with a lot of GPU can worth a try to mine other crypto coins and exchange them for bitcoin.
Really?
Do you think that a couple of GPUs would outpower a supercomputer? lol...
Summit has 27,648 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
These Russians were jailed for attempting to mine bitcoin at a nuclear facility. Would they really have gotten coins mining with a supercomputer? https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/russian-nuclear-engineer-jailed-for-mining-bitcoin-at-work/
Replying to the original question, it's possible that supercomputer could mine bitcoin, but it's not profitable, and not significantly faster that current mining rigs. Current hash rates would not be that much affected. The chips used in supercomputers are designed for other purposes and ASICs are much better at hash cryptography, much lesser electrical power and cooling needed. The lower the cost, the higher the profit. 
These Russians were jailed for attempting to mine bitcoin at a nuclear facility. Would they really have gotten coins mining with a supercomputer? https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/russian-nuclear-engineer-jailed-for-mining-bitcoin-at-work/
In the article you qouted there was no mention of the supercomputer be able to mine some bitcoins. But here on this site https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/10/02/bitcoin-mining-on-russian-nuclear-supercomputer/ you can actually read that they have mined some currency before they are caugth. The thing is that the amount of coins they have successfully mined have not been disclosed.
It depends what you are classifying as a supercomputer, because frankly speaking, they don't really exist yet, with the most effective mining machines being powerful GPU intensive PC's, or specific mining cards, or even a regular asic miner.
They aren't really a huge step up compared to the other machines out there.
Mining bitcoin at this time or in future with supercomputer or any other device than ASIC miners is a waste of time, if have a computer with a lot of GPU can worth a try to mine other crypto coins and exchange them for bitcoin.
These Russians were jailed for attempting to mine bitcoin at a nuclear facility. Would they really have gotten coins mining with a supercomputer? https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/russian-nuclear-engineer-jailed-for-mining-bitcoin-at-work/
I am sure they would have stopped if they weren't getting any cryptocoins or if the whole coin mining wasn't profitable in the first place. They are going to get some serious jail time because this was a huge security infringement and would have been able to compromise the security of the entire nuclear facility and it would have been disastrous. 
These Russians were jailed for attempting to mine bitcoin at a nuclear facility. Would they really have gotten coins mining with a supercomputer? https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/russian-nuclear-engineer-jailed-for-mining-bitcoin-at-work/
In the article you qouted there was no mention of the supercomputer be able to mine some bitcoins. But here on this site https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/10/02/bitcoin-mining-on-russian-nuclear-supercomputer/ you can actually read that they have mined some currency before they are caugth. The thing is that the amount of coins they have successfully mined have not been disclosed.
These Russians were jailed for attempting to mine bitcoin at a nuclear facility. Would they really have gotten coins mining with a supercomputer? https://www.cryptoinfowatch.com/russian-nuclear-engineer-jailed-for-mining-bitcoin-at-work/
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