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Feb 11, 2018 1:22 AM
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yourewastingyourlife
Munchman347
'No competing with official government miners!'...
PeopleHateMeBecauseImaVaper
Have fun in Siberia, see ya never.
ScootinPutin
Yuo see Ivan, if use super computer for min... oy blyat!
youraveragedeveloper
PapaTimDankopus
Why the fuck is the real world even funnier than The Onion...
EalisLav
They delayed creating of an improved nuclear bomb. Should get Nobel Peace Prize for that...
idonothavetimetothinkofausername
it's weird that such smart people can be so stupid
wadatahmydamie
They weren’t that smart, they were going after digital Monopoly money
ThomsonI
Downvote because Daily Mail.
ThomsonI
I *want* to like this, but downvote Daily Mail on principle.
BootsNCatsNBootsNCatsN
Twas a minor offence
dangerousDoc
Fucking morons
Ragnarok1030
Can you imagine if this was a newspaper headline 60 years ago? Heads would explode
Cataleast
The idiocy is overwhelming. It's a fucking 1 petaflop supercomputer in a nuclear research centre. Some checks might be in place...
Cataleast
The moment the FSB comes knocking after you've pulled off something as stupid as that, the only appropriate reaction is "Oh, right. Fuck."
Morgasmicaly
One of my teachers used the school network to mine them, still works there 5 years later
newphonewhodees
Captainhavoc, reemofpaper bitcoin mining is where you verify transactions between parties and can earn a bitcoin or a share of bitcoin.
newphonewhodees
Also that’s my rudimentary understanding I have never set up a bitcoin mine
siler7
They were charged with contributing to the delinquency of a miner.
ArmedMartian
Gohan, you're a minor!
DicksmackMcgee
zergzapper
You're a witty cunt I'll give ya that
jetflight
Oh, fuck you, and take your fucking +1 for being a funny cunt.
capsaicinheat
bravo
MacClay
Well, Russian nuclear scientists do have a tendency to fuck around while on duty.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
But that's just a miner offense.
CustardPies
'Foiled a plot'. Lol this guy used to write the scooby doo stories
GoodGraces
Mining is legal. What's the problem?
HitlersArtCritic
Abuse of government resources basically. Its like using an office computer to look at porn on the clock.
ifuckinlovemycat
I don't understand any of this tbh
HitlersArtCritic
People with access to high end government resources, risked it's integrity attempting to make money while abusing their positions.
HitlersArtCritic
Cryptocurrency mining works by keeping track of transactions by solving math and being rewarded for it. A supercomputer can do lots of math.
LosPer
Bystandr
Besides the security issue of being connected to the net to mine, it doesnt seem like that big a deal if its just done during down time.
superbob201
Supercomputers are more likely to have a waiting list than downtime
Bystandr
Oh no , they made $ 0.10 USD worth of bitcoin ! Oh no ! An atrocity ! lol
Fahargo
A super computer eould be able to mine at an astronomical rate
Bystandr
The amount of bit coin a computer can mine decreases over time as the amount available to mine approaches zero (yes there is a soft cap).
Bystandr
It also decreases as more computers join mining pools to mine (it gets more difficult). Now these guys didnt have to pay the electric bill
Bystandr
which is the only real crime here if they didnt take anyone elses experiment time on the rig, but given that a purpose build ASIC Mining Rig
bigbirdchokingonausedcondom
Can someone explains how you mine for bitcoins?
HitlersArtCritic
Mining is basically keeping track of transactions. You do the math to keep track, you get rewarded. Computers are very good at math.
GAM3R187
you get the reward. Often it is split among a large cluster of miners within a collective pool. 2/2
GAM3R187
So in laymans terms, you're processing transactions of behalf of the blockchain. If you're the first person to get the right block 1/2
atrillionaliens
This is what laymen think when you say 'get the right block': https://mobileimages.lowes.com/product/converted/039645/039645997949.jpg
GAM3R187
A further comment down has a better description of it, but yeah I realized that portion may not have made sense to some shortly afterwards.
GuyThatRealizesFemalesAreConfusing
Love how my comment got deleted explaining what happened to people in Russia, especially when my dad worked/forced to be in the military...
GuyThatRealizesFemalesAreConfusing
Anyway, people would “disappear” consistently, were told they were “threats to the nation” and no one would bat an eye, because it’d happen
GuyThatRealizesFemalesAreConfusing
To them as well, my dad saw this, and fled from communism in the ussr after they asked to go on a trip to Israel once, and chose to come to
GuyThatRealizesFemalesAreConfusing
America as refugees with some of his family, most of his family(his Dad died of cancer, his mother too) from the leaks at Chernobyl, he was
GuyThatRealizesFemalesAreConfusing
From Belarus not to far from Chernobyl when it exploded, but TLDR: KGB will find you and make you disappear, but is now known as FSB.
reemofpaper
Can someone explain what mining bitcoin means? Like stealing them? Going into an internet cave with a chisel and extracting them from rocks?
wadatahmydamie
Layman’s terms - it involves solving complex algorithms. There’s a finite number, so the difficulty goes up as more are mined. +
wadatahmydamie
+ That artificial rarity is the alpha and omega of why neckbeards swear they’re better than fiat currency or anything else that’s backed.
NonNewtonianGenderfluid
There are people who prefer their transactions in Bitcoin because of its unique properties, but trust me they are not neckbeards..not at all
wadatahmydamie
Well, drug dealers, neckbeards, for-hire trolls, and other libertarian subsets.
NonNewtonianGenderfluid
Hitmen for hire , big time drug dealers , people that sell out government secrets , big time kindappers...
AgentSmithFan
Where does Russia get their supercomputers? Do they make their own or buy them elsewhere?
ataradov
Built from standard Intel stuff. There are companies that actually make server hardware, but the level of actual local design is unknown.
ataradov
Sanctions are nice, but everyone loves money, including Intel :)
Cyzyk
I don't think most supercomputers get anywhere near MTAR restrictions.
ataradov
It is ITAR, and they are not. Intel will obviously not do anything so obviously sketchy.
rbudrick
this is not the cold war. They buy em directly from the manufacturer, just like we do.
AgentSmithFan
I get that. I'm just wondering if there are any major manufacturers in Russia.
rbudrick
I dont think the major techs have manufacturing ops there, but items are imported.