Back then he could have configured it to search for Mersenne primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_Search https://en.wikipedia.org

Back then he could have configured it to search for Mersenne primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...) or the like. There's always been capacious sinks for computer power ^_^. And I think the downvotes are uncalled for, the general idea is excellent, even if Bitcoin mining is iffy in a corporate setting (very bad if you keep them, and the finance people won't know what to do with them, plus their tax treatment is not trivial).