A Government Researcher Got Busted Using Supercomputers To Mine For Bitcoin

Buried inside an inspector general report on wrongdoing at the National Science Foundation is an interesting case of bad behavior: A researcher got caught using government-funded supercomputers to mine for Bitcoin. According to the March IG report, the unnamed researcher used supercomputers at two different universities — although quite surprisingly — mined only a very small amount of around 12-16 bitcoins valued between $8,000 and $10,000. The researcher said he was just conducting tests on...