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Russian nuclear scientists arrested for 'Bitcoin mining plot'

• kossTKR 9y ago
  Interested in how much they potentially got out of this!
  • tomtimtall 9y ago
    Sounds like they got caught almost imidately after connecting it to the internet so propably not much.
  • Tech-Noir 9y ago
    I don't know how accurate any of this is, or how supercomputers or Bitcoin have changed in the past half decade, or how seriously such comparisons can or should be taken, but: The suspects had tried to use one of Russia's most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins 4-5 years ago: the entire bitcoin network is roughly 256 times faster than all the top 500 supercomputers around the globe combined. https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-bitcoin-computing-power-now-256-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-b...
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  • granaldo 9y ago
    What hashrate is this supercomputer giving? want to calculate the profitability https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin/mining_calculator https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin/mining_calculator