Crypto mining the “Wrong way” – In a nuclear facility.
Cryptocurrencies have lately been surprising everyone with their potential and causing a lot of headaches too – particularly for governments and regulatory agencies. But sometimes the reason isn’t their massive potential to undermine government currencies as in the case of the USA or their use in money laundering for example in Silk Road Marketplace’s case.
Talk about a student at Harvard who was found using the university’s supercomputer called Odyssey to mine Dogecoin, that headmaster who was caught mining Monero using school’s electricity. Or a professor at the National Science Foundation who was found to be mining Bitcoin using supercomputing resources. But it doesn’t end there.
In the latest, it has been revealed that mining equipment was found in South Ukraine’s second-largest nuclear power plant in a city named “Yuzhnoukrainsk.”
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In a raid conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on 10 July, six Radeon RX 470 video cards, four power supplies, three switches, a hard drive, a USB, a motherboard and additional equipment w ..
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