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Feb 11, 2018 1:22 AM
Huhwhatcrazy
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yourewastingyourlife
Morgasmicaly
One of my teachers used the school network to mine them, still works there 5 years later
dangerousDoc
Fucking morons
ScootinPutin
Yuo see Ivan, if use super computer for min... oy blyat!
Ragnarok1030
Can you imagine if this was a newspaper headline 60 years ago? Heads would explode
youraveragedeveloper
CustardPies
'Foiled a plot'. Lol this guy used to write the scooby doo stories
BootsNCatsNBootsNCatsN
Twas a minor offence
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
But that's just a miner offense.
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."
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
ThomsonI
Downvote because Daily Mail.
ThomsonI
I *want* to like this, but downvote Daily Mail on principle.
MacClay
Well, Russian nuclear scientists do have a tendency to fuck around while on duty.
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
EalisLav
They delayed creating of an improved nuclear bomb. Should get Nobel Peace Prize for that...
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.
siler7
They were charged with contributing to the delinquency of a miner.
ArmedMartian
Gohan, you're a minor!
DicksmackMcgee
capsaicinheat
bravo
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.
Munchman347
'No competing with official government miners!'...
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.
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...