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Hugh Pickens writes:

Tim Hornyak reports that National Science Foundation (NSF) has banned a researcher for using supercomputer resources to generate bitcoin. According to the semiannual report to Congress by the NSF Office of Inspector General, the computationally intensive mining used about $150,000 worth of NSF-supported computer use at the two universities to generate bitcoins worth about $8,000 to $10,000 (PDF). The universities told the NSF that the work was unauthorized, reporting that the researcher accessed the computers remotely, even using a mirror site in Europe, possibly to conceal his identity. "The researcher's access to all NSF-funded supercomputer resources was terminated," the office wrote. "In response to our recommendation, NSF suspended the researcher government-wide."

The incident follows a similar case in February in which a researcher at Harvard University was caught using supercomputer resources to mine dogecoin. The researcher was barred from accessing the computer resources.

1. "Hugh Pickens" - http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
2. "banned a researcher for using supercomputer resources to generate bitcoin" - http://www.cio.com/article/753803/US_Researcher_Banned_for_Mining_Bitcoin_Using_University_Supercomputers
3. "used about $150,000 worth of NSF-supported computer use at the two universities to generate bitcoins worth about $8,000 to $10,000" - http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/oig14002/oig14002.pdf
4. "caught using supercomputer resources to mine dogecoin" - http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/2/20/harvard-odyssey-dogecoin/

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